You are invited to a workshop by Cassie Thornton and Sarah Adelaide, co-organizers of The Hologram. The event is part of the program series Experts of the Undercommons curated by researcher, critic, and editor Tobias Dias, postdoc at Aarhus University, in collaboration with Kunsthal Aarhus.

Participation is free but registration on Billetto is mandatory as there are only 12 seats available.

Are you feeling sad and powerless due to multiple overlapping crises, globally and locally? We are all in a crisis, and we have been for a long time. From Gaza and Congo to Ukraine and the daily disasters related to climate change, catastrophe imbues social life.

Nothing in the world will ever be the same. We will not be the same. What happens when we acknowledge that and begin to produce structured long-term grassroots support for each other? For this workshop, we will invite people to come with difficult feelings related to global and local political struggles. We will use The Hologram protocol to patiently look at the relationship between our lives in Northern Europe and how they do and don't connect to the struggles of the world. What do we do from within our relative comfort while we overwork to succeed in a society that hurts more people than it helps?

This workshop offers "incomers" new to The Hologram practice a chance to learn about the history and reasoning behind The Hologram, which was born from crisis, for crisis, as well as an opportunity to experiment with the method together. The practice itself values and puts together the processes of personal introspection, social cooperation, and strategic anti-capitalist organization. The workshop is composed of ⅓ part presentation, ⅔ part participation led by 2 facilitators plus more people who are familiar with the practice, as needed. Everyone who joins us will be well supported, challenged, and invited to join the larger global Hologram community of practitioners.

Sarah Adelaide is a counsellor, lawyer and somatic sex educator practicing in Berlin. They help people to analyse power, author liberatory stories about themselves and find pleasure in their bodies.

Cassie Thornton is an artist and activist who makes a “safe space” for the unknown, for disobedience, and for unanticipated collectivity. She uses social practices including institutional critique, insurgent architecture, and “healing modalities” like hypnosis and yoga to find soft spots in the hard surfaces of capitalist life. Cassie has invented a grassroots alternative credit reporting service for the survivors of gentrification, has hypnotized hedge fund managers, has finger-painted with the grime found inside banks, has donated cursed paintings to profiteering bankers, and has taught feminist economics to yogis (and vice versa). Her book, The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future (2020), is available from Pluto Press.