The workshop is organised during the 31st edition of the FIT Festival Internazionale del Teatro
e della scena contemporanea (Lugano, 28.9 - 11.10.2022), in collaboration with Trickster-p and LAC, and it will by run by Aruna Ganesh Ram, Cristina Galbiati, Maria Da Silva, Nimi Ravindran, Paramita Saha e Yves Regenass (remotely).

The target is creators in different art disciplines with a keen interest in the development
of unconventional artistic formats and in the topic of possible relationships between humans and other
living forms.

Synopsis

Ever since the Enlightenment, Western philosophers have shown us a Nature that is grand and universal but also passive and mechanical. Nature was a backdrop and resource for the moral intentionality of Man, which could tame and master Nature at will.
In the meantime, many things have happened that have called this view into question: those same interspecies entanglements that once seemed relegated to the world of fairy tales have now become the subject of serious discussion among biologists and ecologists to show how life inevitably requires
interaction among many kinds of beings and among many forms.
Conceived as a two-year research and transmission project devised by Trickster-p and Sandbox Collective, Awaken the sleeping giants involves artists from Switzerland and India to explore hybridization and inter-species entanglements as possible keys to a future relationship between humans and other living forms and focuses its reflection on how new formats of encounter with the public can become vehicles for new models
of participation and coexistence.
The workshop Awaken the sleeping giants_hybridizations, offered as part of the FIT Festival, is conceived as a breeding ground of reflection and action, in which the participants can compare their visions and artistic practices to question hybridization in its many variations and facets.
The Lugano workshop will feature the participation of 10 resident artists accompanied by the stable group of art practitioners which is the core of the biennial project Awaken the sleeping giants, their joint work will open perspectives for possible new formats of encounter with the public that can ground a different paradigm of relation.