HAND TO HAND

ended

Europe is now faced with the need to initiate deep ecological and environmental changes. These mutations request from us to think about our carbon footprint and more deeply to rethink our ways of living, our choices of development. They force us to (re)connect ourselves in a different and urgent way to spaces which we inhabit and to people who live there. As a body of ideas, social ecology, used as a synonym for human ecology, envisions for instance, a world that reharmonizes human communities with the natural world, while celebrating diversity, creativity and freedom. For such an ecological transformation, we need collectively, to create the operative conditions for a possible social and sustainable transformation. Artwork in public space can for instance create and articulate this kind of meeting between people and complex issues like (social) ecology. The project brings together 4 European partners, cultural circus and performing art operators: Le Palc, a national circus centre in France, Room 100 in Croatia, Bússola in Portugal and Helsingor Theatre in Denmark. The aim is to explore the issue of sustainability through learning and experiential spaces of innovation and research for circus artists, in order to develop new capacities of initiating such a transition, transforming artistic and methodological practices in public space for sustainability.Through an itinerary of 4 exploration times and immersion residencies, Hand to Hand offers experimentation spaces with a cross-sectoral collaboration: private firms, cultural and creative industries actors, researchers in ecology and art. This process will be extended by 4 collective testing and sharing prototypes in festivals in public space an experimental approach, to test and make use with the audiences. By involving mentors, researchers and professionals, the conducted experimentations will be capitalised in the form of good practices tools, notably through publications and a web-doc.