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MVH as part of Curriculum for Future

MVH as part of Curriculum for Future

MVH as part of Curriculum for Future

MVH as part of Curriculum for Future

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Apr 15th – Jul 15th, 2021
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Offering Minimum Viable Hologram sessions to the public as part of the Curriculum for Future program by A Blade of Grass foundation.

Concept Created by Cassie Thornton
Facilitation by a growing team of peers
April 15 – July 15, 2021; Groups of four will be able to sign up for two-hour long Minimum Viable Hologram sessions at various days and times
Registration will open April 15 and be available at https://thehologram.xyz/MVH.

Participants are invited to sign up for an intimate two-hour facilitated session of The Hologram, which is intended to demonstrate a practice of radical care among a group of peers. The simple but transformative method demonstrates how we can distribute the labour of care differently, creating sustainable energy—rather than exhaustion—and aiming us towards a social world where more people have the tools to participate in caregiving relationships. Using the principles of The Hologram project, participants are invited to sign up in groups of four, with one participant asking three others to join in on a guided conversation about their physical, social, and emotional health. The session will show how many of our basic needs can often be met through carefully negotiated relationships with peers rather than through systems that are too frequently exclusionary, inaccessible, and tied to capitalist frameworks.

A Blade of Grass’ public programs are made available for free thanks to the generous funding of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; David Rockefeller Fund; SPArt; New York State Council on the Arts; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the National Endowment for the Arts; and our beloved community of individual supporters.

For more visit: https://abladeofgrass.org/

A Blade of Grass logo Various donors to A Blade of Grass foundation

Event Partners & Collaborators

Event Partners & Collaborators

Event Partners & Collaborators

Cassie Thornton
Cassie Thornton is an artist and activist from the US, currently living in Canada. She refers to herself as a feminist economist, a title that frames her work as that of a social scientist actively preparing for the economics of a future society that produces health and life without the tools that reproduce oppression— like money, police or prisons. She is currently the co-director of the Re-Imagining Value Action Lab in Thunder Bay, an art and social centre at Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada.
Lita Wallis
Lita Wallis is a youth worker and informal educator based in Gwynedd, Wales. Whether in her work or her personal life, Lita has spent much of her time experimenting with different shapes of supportive relationships (eg. cooperatives, triangles, tripods, flows & webs,) that challenge the ways society teaches us to relate. She joined the Hologram team in March 2020, when she helped to build the first course. Since then her role has been to share the Hologram model, and work out how to make it as useful to as many people as possible.
Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova
Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova is a Czech-Sorbian artist and curator living in Berlin, where she runs a gallery in her bedroom, writes about care work, and makes sounds. The wild tangle of projects coming out of her bedroom could be seen as a life-long investigation into different forms of thinking and creating post-capitalist worlds. She has taken the first Hologram workshop in the spring of 2020, and has been involved since, in writing about The Hologram, facilitating MVHs, role playing possible holographic futures, and organizing.
Katrine Skovsgaard
Katrine Skovsgaard is an artist, co-creator, workshop facilitator and collaborator living between London, UK and Copenhagen, Denmark. She thrives on, and is inspired by, dancing and radical self-care. Her acts of resistance include hand-holding, public pain-painting, mirroring practices and reclaiming institutionalised narratives of illness. She enjoys taking things outside the context where they, normatively speaking, belong. She is also an enthusiastic fruit and veg-lover who recently planted dozens of blueberry, raspberry and strawberry bushes, a hard-hitting boxer, and an aspiring out of balance skateboarder who often prefers riding a bike.
Shawn Chua
Shawn Chua is based in Singapore, where he is part of the group that co-organizes soft/WALL/studs. He dwells in the uncanny valley and wonders about the personhood of things. With the Hologram, he is finding a different lightness to health and illness, refracted through the prism of another possibility of being with each other in the world—especially one that is not yet here.
Stella Maris
Stella Lawless aka a Good Enough Witch was born on Halloween raised by kitchen witches and activist weirdos. When they aren’t offering cosmically informed spiritual counsel, they spend most of their time cooking and feeding friends, advocating for economic, environmental and educational justice, exploring ways to cooperate hopefully creating community in all the messiness therein. They also make a lot of art and rituals. They love supporting artists, activists and healers prevent and recover from burnout. They live by Wendell Berry’s words “Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.” They have relatively recently immigrated to the unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation known as Montreal and is learning French and how to dress properly in winter agonizingly slowly.
Til Wallis
Til is a feminist community builder and teacher working towards ending the housing crisis. She usually spends her time cooking and feeding friends, growing vegetables and herbs, and pouring kerosine on the raging fires that will burn Capitalism to dust. She is a radical educator and is part of the Unlearning Racism collective, a direct action organisation supporting white people to 'unlearn racism' and build a white culture centred around anti-racism. She took the Hologram course in September 2020 and fully believes in the power and magic of simply listening, and being listened to. She believes this is foundational to loving and respecting ourselves, our communities and the earth we live on.