SaunaMANIFEST SaunaEksperimentet er do it yourself, fordi vi tror på egne løsninger og medejerskab bygget op fra bunden - vi tror på, at måden vi skaber på, er lige så vigtig som det vi skaber. SaunaEksperimentet tror på, at det mobile... more
SaunaMANIFEST
SaunaEksperimentet er do it yourself, fordi vi tror på egne løsninger og medejerskab bygget op fra bunden - vi tror på, at måden vi skaber på, er lige så vigtig som det vi skaber. SaunaEksperimentet tror på, at det mobile skaber forbindelse og sammenhørighed mellem lokaliteter, og skaber mobilitet i forståelsen af fællesskab og samfund.
SaunaEksperimentet ønsker: - at forandre og skabe nye offentligheder med legen i centrum og frirummet som platform. - at skabe rum til eftertanke, hvor tiden er en anden - et rum for skæve møder og forundring.
SaunaEksperimentet vil: - skabe et ukompliceret møde, der tager udgangspunkt i velkendte symboler. - udfordre den lokale kontekst og inspirere til bevidsthed om fælles muligheder. - appellere til standsning ved at tydeliggøre byens mellemrum og fremhæve dets potentiale. - trække mikrofællesskaber sammen i uformelle rammer.
Saunaen er en lille utopi, der virkeliggøres i mødet med verden.
Vesterbro, maj 2009
Andrea Boel Ricketts Stinus Duch Andersen Simon Post Larsen Gitte Adler Line Kjær Toft Kasper Madsen Kristine Jensen
The research focus of my recently completed MA in Higher Education (HE) was on the responsibility of HE providers to create democratic spaces of plurality in the lead up to the EU Referendum. I argued that democracy should be... more
The research focus of my recently completed MA in Higher Education (HE) was on the responsibility of HE providers to create democratic spaces of plurality in the lead up to the EU Referendum. I argued that democracy should be re-understood in terms of creating opportunities for every person to ‘act’, in an Arendtian sense (1995). That is, providing spaces which allow individuals to come in to contact with those who are not like them in order to bring about the event of democratic subjectivity (Biesta, 2006, 2009 & 2010).
I see saunas as one such space, serving as a neutral vessel, both activating and activated by the physical and psychological experiences of those who populate it. I am currently working on opening an artist-run, wood-powered sauna in Manchester. This will begin with a month-long summer-run in the outdoor area of an art space in the city. As Maitra d’sauna, I will operate the service for regular hours daily, alongside a curated programme of discussions and interventions. Following Biesta’s (2004 & 2006) paralleling of Bauman’s Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common (1995) with post-modern society, I am interested in the sauna as a space for artists to meet which is not governed by particular categories, theories, methods and beliefs of the Rational Communities they might otherwise belong to (Lingis, 1994).
