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On Mobilisation focuses on community mobilisation through artistic processes. This bottom-up project takes an active role in an international solidarity and emancipatory movement. It aims to bring together and to engage individuals for favouring forms of social justice and equality.

Knowledge Exchange

On Mobilisation project responds to the need for transnational creation and circulation of knowledge and capacity building. It proposes a softly guided frame for participation, in a peer-to-peer dynamic, contributing to the ongoing demand for elementary equality, social fairness and empowerment. It creates an informal and inclusive model of learning within culture, stimulating exchange, activating citizens, developing audience and by that opening up a connection to other social spheres and domains that were inaccessible before.

Micro-communities & Local Knowledge

Two important aspects of On Mobilisation are the empowerment of micro-communities through artistic practices and connecting the local knowledge to international mobility, forming a transnational community. It is directed towards and composed of professionals, artists, citizens, many of whom live in continuous precarity due to their origin, class, gender, age. The micro-communities are mobilised by adopting radical forms of cultural participation facilitated by international artists.

Activities & Publications

During the project artistic residencies, evening schools, transnational symposia and transnational exhibitions are implemented. Two publications On Mobilisation Vocabulary and On Mobilisation Toolkit are produced and made available on this website.

Understanding local contexts

On Mobilisation acknowledges the different factors that shape our work and experiences, including history, geography, culture, economy, and politics. The partners value understanding the context of each organisation and the intersectionality and diversity of the people they engage with. The goal is to create conditions for building meaningful relationships and sharing knowledge, while respecting differences without judgement or hierarchy.

Project Partners

On Mobilisation is created with support from the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Flanders State of the Art and Swedish Arts Council. In order to effectively address the concept of micro-community mobilisation the project embraces local specificities of the four partner organisations: wpZimmer, Baltic Art Center, Studio ALTA and Lavanderia a Vapore, and of the two associated partners: Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) and Uppsala University Graduate School in Sustainability Studies (GRASS). Cultural participation activities are facilitated by international artists: Kalle Brolin, Elisabetta Consonni, Daniele Ninarello, Ahilan Ratnamohan, Marika Smreková and Danae Theodoridou.