Onassis AiR Programs 2021/22
Like any living organism that continually grows based on information extracted from its surrounding environment, Onassis AiR transforms and adapts its programs with characteristics that are passed from one movement to the next. From individual research needs to fostering a collective research study, the experiential and the tactile have become core components of how we think and practice together.
Inspired by the title of a novel by Wilson Harris, in September 2020 we started The School of Infinite Rehearsals. Conceived as a collective research program and as a continuation of the individual program strands that we introduced during our first year of existence, The School of Infinite Rehearsals brings together an interdisciplinary group of participants to exchange knowledges and practices around two research topics we find urgent to address and further explore collectively.
For our second year of collective study, The School of Infinite Rehearsals 2021/22 (Movement V-VIII), we transform our methodological approach in two ways. On one hand, we are introducing two main, and rather broad, research focus areas that are inextricably connected, and which we aim to explore from two different vantage points each time: governance and economies. This year’s research topics are broken down into different points of inquiry, allowing us to approach and address their specificities on a micro-level (local), while also exposing their inter-connections on a macro-level, drawing on all the cultural, political, aesthetic, ethical perspectives and the diverse cultural and geographic backgrounds of each participant. On the other hand, we want to further expand and foster our collective and horizontal ways of thinking and practicing together. For this reason, there will be no conveners or mentors. The contents and structure of each proposed research topic for Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 Movement Groups will be defined by the participants themselves, who will bring their existing individual practices and research interests into the collective research practice.
