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SUMMARY:Sentinel Attentions and Emergency Responses: A Participatory Embod
 ied Choreography / ALICE
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DTEND:20240523T170000
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DESCRIPTION:andrea haenggi Estefania Mompean Botias\nThursday\, May 23rd\,
  14:00-17:00\nAlong the banks of the Arve river in Geneva. \nWe will send
  you the exact position a few days before the event.\n\n+++\n\nIn the late
  1970s\, during his lectures at the Collège de France\, the philosopher M
 ichel Foucault characterized the modern state as one that operates through
  the environment. Power left disciplinary methods to exercise a manipulati
 on from environmental means\, called "environmentality". Recent years have
  seen this power manifested through practices of the state of emergency (e
 mergen-tality?)\, where actions are justified by climate urgency. This hyp
 othesis resonates in responses to recent floods of the Arve River\, where 
 the river is perceived as a hazardous entity necessitating continuous moni
 toring and control.\n \nContrastingly\, in 1996\, writer Toni Morrison in
 vited us to reconsider the language we have embodied from environmental pr
 ocedures. She states\, "Floods is the word they use\, but in fact it is no
 t flooding\; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be." This cha
 llenges conventional perceptions\, suggesting that alternative ways of rem
 embering\, naming\, and acting are feasible through imaginative and emotio
 nal practice. This leads us to think on the figure of the sentinel\, as li
 ving being or devices that alert us of possible event that affect our dail
 y life. But the sentinel not only "sens" but also generate senses\, foster
 ing emotional recconection with rapidly changing environment. \n \nBy fo
 cusing on the notion of sentinel attentions\, new tools to broaden the way
 s of being sensitive and making meaning beyond the human are necessary. 
  Thus\, body-based interdisciplinary artist andrea haenggi will present m
 ethods of performative reimagining developed with spontaneous terrestrial 
 and aquatic plants. Her research-based 'ethnochoreobotanic' practice has a
 lso expanded into co-founding the Environmental Performative Agency (EPA)\
 , a collective of artists and activists envisioning governmental agency be
 yond human-centric frameworks. Through artistic practices and workshops\, 
 EPA advocates for the participation of all beings in co-creating our envir
 onment\, proposing practices of radical care and embodied science.\n\nIn t
 his way\, through the reading of "emergency briefings" on the Arve Floods 
 the performative seminar aims to cultivate a better understanding of emerg
 encies responses emphasizing the importance of nurturing sentinel attentio
 ns and exploring alternative modes of perception and action beyond human-c
 entric frameworks.\n\n+++\n\nRegistration needed: https://go.epfl.ch/sent
 inel_attentions \n\n+++\n\nandrea haenggi  @andrea_haenggi\nEstefania M
 ompean Botias\nIn collaboration with EPFL Alice lab research team: Diete
 r Dietz\, Lucía Jalón Oyarzun\, Nagy Makhlouf\, Fulya Selçuk\, Eloïs
 e Vo and terrestrial and aquatic plants at the Arve. 
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