Happy Friday all – what a long, tiring week! I don’t have the energy to do justice to the lecture by Judith Revel that kicked off the second evening of 34 Exercises of Freedom (September 15, 2016) and the topic of DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS… INTO NEOLIBERALISM. Revel, a French philosopher and expert on the thought of […]
For today’s session of Freedom Park Fridays, we will be doing a collective workout following the directions of Peruvian artist Sergio Zevallos and his performance Educación cívica/Civic Education. You will need to find yourself a partner and a large room. Now, take a deep breath and get ready for the workout. 1. Stand at the […]
I’m not going to even ask you how your week was as I know its been rough, traumatic even. But here we are again, at its end and here again is your date with a time-machine to take you away from it all and back to Athens in September 2016 and the 34 Exercises of […]
Hello again – another working week is done and here we are for your dose of restorative freedom from documenta 14. Today you can sit back and listen to philosopher Antonio Negri speak to you in French about ideas of struggle, freedom and enlightenment (from the supermarket to Trump). Don’t worry if you can’t understand […]
What a week! Now is the time to unwind and to escape to Athens and listen to Malidi’s story of her life-changing journey and the light she shines on our own struggles. Malidi means “to always find a purpose and path in life” in Kawakwaka’wakw, the language spoken by the native people of the Pacific […]
Do you work the standard grind of Monday through Friday without finding any time to restore your body and mind with creatively or intellectually challenging activities? Sure, you may squeeze in a few pages of a book or a quick visit to a museum, but do you constantly struggle to undo the damage your hips, […]