{"id":3276,"date":"2023-12-15T16:32:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T16:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/?post_type=event&#038;p=3276"},"modified":"2025-05-26T12:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:20:38","slug":"learning-from-the-commons-by-stefan-laxness","status":"publish","type":[29],"link":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/event\/2024\/learning-from-the-commons-by-stefan-laxness\/","title":{"rendered":"learning from the commons, by stefan laxness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Across Europe, a growing number of local communities are claiming the right to transform the landscape of the areas for the benefit of the community. These projects respond to the marginalisation, and the ever-increasing threat posed by climate change. Composed of images, videos and interviews collected while travelling,<em> Learning from the commons<\/em> (2023) acts as an ecological atlas that explores the relationship between villages and the landscape. From the clearing of invasive tree species from common land to the communal harvesting of rye, this work explores the role that these collective practices play in restoring social and ecological relationships. This atlas overlaps these ecological events with the observation of an eucalyptus clearing action, filmed whilst using a balloon equipped with open-source environmental detection cameras. Navigating slowly between falling trees and moving bodies, the device produces a sensory walk that incorporates images of three landscape interventions, organised by the communities of Montescola (Frox\u00e1n, Spain), Campo do Ger\u00eas (Serra do Ger\u00eas, Portugal) and Veredas da Estrela (Figueir\u00f3 da Serra and Freixo da Serra, Portugal).<br \/>\nA researcher and artist, Stefan Laxness has a doctoral scholarship from the Landscape and Urban Studies Institute (LUS) at the University of Zurich, where he studies landscape restoration initiatives carried out by local communities. He also taught at the Architectural Association in London and was project leader at Forensic Architecture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/It2SvSiRfkA?si=OLwQLq-g1LVPyraC\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">work made in 2023, from an artist&#8217;s residency at laboral &#8211; centro de arte y criaci\u00f3n industrial, in gij\u00f3n (spain)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laboralcentrodearte.org\/en\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10060\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/LABoral-Logo-with-Strapline_Branco-300x122.png\" alt=\"LABoral logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"61\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">european media art platform is a project co-funded by the european union<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/EMAP-site-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6729\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/EN-Co-Funded-by-the-EU_WHITE-300x63.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"50\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">this piece is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/event\/emap-perspective-1\/?doing_wp_cron=1704968649.4510269165039062500000\">emap perspective #1<\/a> exhibition\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>support <\/strong>portuguese republic &#8211; culture \/ directorate-general for the arts. rtcp &#8211; network of portuguese theatres and cinemas<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across Europe, a growing number of local communities are claiming the right to transform the landscape of the areas for the benefit of the community. These projects respond to the marginalisation, and the ever-increasing threat posed by climate change. Composed of images, videos and interviews collected while travelling, Learning from the commons (2023) acts as <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/event\/2024\/learning-from-the-commons-by-stefan-laxness\/\" title=\"Learn More\">Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3517,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3276","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","type-exhibition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/3276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/3276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4772,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/3276\/revisions\/4772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type?post=3276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}