Multidisciplinary event<\/strong><\/p>\nNovember 3rd 2018, 2:00 pm<\/p>\n
Journ\u00e9e Paroles et Man\u0153uvres<\/b><\/p>\n
In a spirit of exchange and reflection, Skol invites the public to participate in Journ\u00e9es Paroles et Man\u0153uvres, a cross-disciplinary meeting of interventions, conferences, performances, and discussions. This event aims to inverse roles, to encourage collaboration between different types of expertise, and to support hybrid forms of communication. Journ\u00e9es Paroles et Man\u0153uvres is an opportunity to take time<\/em>, together, through various forms and ideas.<\/p>\nCollapse, then what?<\/strong><\/p>\nThis collaborative event includes a talk, videos, performances, and music. Given that the environmental crisis is undeniable and that catastrophist discourse has become commonplace in both the popular imagination and academic circles, can we bring an \u201coperational optimism*\u201d to bear in imagining the world to come?<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly he who has the courage to be absolutely negative has also the power to create something new.\u201d (Ludwig Feuerbach, 1842)<\/p>\n
* <\/strong>term taken from Harvey L. Mead (2017). Trop tard : La fin d’un monde et le d\u00e9but d’un nouveau,<\/em>(It\u2019s too late: The end of one world and the beginning of another<\/em>), \u00c9cosoci\u00e9t\u00e9.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
PROGRAM**<\/strong><\/p>\n-2:00: Video by Alison Nguyen (score by Roarke Menzies): you can’t plan a perfect day sometimes it just happens<\/em>, 8 min. 24 sec. 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe piece critiques and eerily meditates on visual codes for authenticity and spirituality used in publicity and mass media.<\/p>\n
-2:30: Conference (in French) by Harvey L. Mead: Trop tard : La fin d\u2019un monde et le d\u00e9but d\u2019un nouveau (Too Late: The end of a world and the beginning of a new one).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nIt is too late to preserve life as we know it. Too late, also, for sustainable development. That is the statement that environmental scene veteran Harvey L. Mead puts forward. Refusing to adopt a sterile pessimistic posture, Mead proposes an operational optimism to fight the surrounding ideological inertia, convinced that we have no other choice: either we change our system with a massive communitarian effort, or this system will collapse under the weight of our excesses, whether they are economical, sociological or ecological.<\/p>\n
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