Keynote Session #1
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Location: Online - 11/3/20, 5:30 PM - 11/3/20, 6:30 PM (Europe/Berlin) (1 hour)
Keynote Session #1
Rebecca Hazlewood & John Jordan
Rebecca Hazlewood & John Jordan

Rebecca Hazlewood, (UK) joined Julie’s Bicycle in July 2019 to work as an Environmental Sustainability Project Manager across the Creative Green, Arts Council England and Cities programmes. Becky has worked in the Sustainability and Environmental sector for over eight years, primarily in the social housing sector. Her long-term enthusiasm for biodiversity conservation led her to expand her work into ecological consultancy and field research, in the UK and abroad. She previously worked as a senior researcher for a small charity in Malawi where she specialised in bat biodiversity.

John Jordan, (France) labelled a "Domestic Extremist" by the UK police, and “a magician of rebellion” by the French press. He has spent 30 years balancing on the tightrope between art and activism. Co-founder of Reclaim the Streets and the Clown Army, and Co-Director writer of the book/film Les Sentiers de L'utopie (La Découverte, 2011). He now co-facilitates the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (Labofii), with Isabelle Fremeaux in Notre-Dame-des-Landes.



Re-connecting with the livings: where do arts stand?



The issue of eco-responsibility and the place of art in this new global paradigm is one of the most urgent questions currently being raised. The global pandemic has already disrupted our reality as artists and cultural professionals and the need for "accountability" in our practices has never been higher. 

How can we propose political, symbolic and concrete actions that will engage the audience and ourselves in a fundamental reflection about our environment? How can humankind find a new ground to cohabitate and reconnect with the living?

Our relationship to our personal, national and international “spaces” can be rethought and it is time to evolve our postures and our common imaginaries by taking into account the living as “otherness to be known and recognized” and looking at our space as not only made for Humans. This keynote session will go from theory to practice in order to give some keys to cultural professionals to reflect on initiating long-term changes.

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