The School of Infinite Rehearsals

Foreword

Texts by Ash Bulayev, Nefeli Myrodia
Design by Stathis Mitropoulos

The School of Infinite Rehearsals, Movement I – Transpirings

“Transpirings” unfolds in two sections: PARATEXT and INFRATEXT. INFRATEXT is a continuous conversation that functions as a narrated journey to the internal devices and principles guiding Movement I’s collective research at Onassis AiR. While INFRATEXT unfolds — an insight into Movement I’s processes of thinking and acting — PARATEXT is there to contextualize it and bring it closer to the possibility of a (national) identity in a constant state of doubt and critique.

Jackie Abhulimen, Federica Bueti, Ash Bulayev, Natasa Diavasti, Alkisti Efthymiou, Emantes, Moriah Evans, Daniel Hui, Myrto Katsimicha, Lauretta Macauley and Christina Phoebe, Nefeli Myrodia, Sumugan Sivanesan, Kostas Tsioukas, Hypatia Vourloumis,

Edited by Alkisti Efthymiou

Design by Typical Organization + Ella Villaumié

The School of Infinite Rehearsals, Movement II – Scored Invocations

During a COVID-related lockdown, in the isolated house of Onassis AiR in Athens, a group of people were inhibited to spend six weeks together, meeting daily and researching themes related to identities. Rather than a result or a documentation of this process, “Scored Invocations” is exactly what its title implies: a carefully curated compilation of enigmatic spells, alchemical reactions, self-evident interpellations, and audacious reflections that appeal to the serendipitous mechanics of a conviviality in the making.

Noor Abed, Stavros Chrysafidis, Natassa Dourida, Alkisti Efthymiou, Latent Community (Sotiris Tsiganos and Ionian Bisai), Myrto Tsilimpounidi

Edited by Alkisti Efthymiou

Design by Stathis Mitropoulos in collaboration with Danae Syrkou

Collage Art: Katerina Karali

The School of Infinite Rehearsals, Movement III – Confluences

“Confluences” is a collection of texts and images that record moments of thinking around water(s). The book contains ideas that arose from the group’s time together and developed through encounters with others and otherness along the way. The book contributors contemplate on the different qualities of water, creating a web of reflections on it as a medium, a method, and a practice of relating to ourselves and the more-than-human world.

Tristan Bera, James Bridle, Marc Delalonde, Kyriaki Goni, Christina Gruber, Sam Hertz, Christina Kotsilelou, Hortense Le Calvez, Ariadni Londos, Louiza Ntourou, Lito Skopeliti, Ana Vaz, Kylie White, Lydia Xynogala, Ioanna Zouli

Edited by Ioanna Zouli

Design by Bend

The School of Infinite Rehearsals, Movement IV – While We’re Together

Structured as a series of prompts and responses, “While We're Together” conveys one group's practices of gathering amidst cascading failures around the globe. The book offers potential forms of remedy and repair through building collaborative relations between each other and with more-than-human worlds. These practices include evolving into cephalopods, listening to plants, foraging a meal, searching for centaurs, shapeshifting into monsters, and finally, sealing our rewilded relations with a spell.

James Bridle, Dennis Dizon, Carolina Doriti, Bryony Dunne, Faidon Papadakis, Kenneth Pietrobono, Miriam Simun, Alexander Strecker, Ingrid Vranken

Edited by Alexander Strecker

Design by Studio Precarity