Unfreeze Your Brain

Unfreeze Your Brain was a call to action and invitation to discover and connect with urgent topics if we want to move towards more-than-capitalist, de-colonial, inter-species and post-patriarchal futures. Art meets business meets futures:
link Alanus website.

For two days the campus became a meeting place for everyone interested in rethinking the economy, and the role and competence of art towards imagining and creating more equitable and sustainable futures. Workshops included:

Everything is political with Katharina Reuter
Decolonise your thinking with Lavinia Muth
Shape the economy the way you want it with Timo Wans
Emancipatory Ruralities with Compost Ensemble
Underneath the same sun, reading with Nadège Kusanika
Free Your Inner Cow with Wapke Feenstra from Myvillages
Employee activism with Susanne Blazejewski and Milan Kiefer
Stone Ritual, more-than-human performance with Annabelle Wimmer Bakic

Pre-festival workshops and events included collective rhubarb gleaning, scything workshop with Ralf Benner and an automated meadow mower demonstration by Martin Hoffmann from Iseki.

Video summary by Alessandro De Matteis, including documentation of art-led student interventions and "Unfreeze" interviews with guests and participants.

Unfreeze Your Brain was part of the “Summer of Change – Bonn Cultural Festival”, an initiative by the Federal City of Bonn in cooperation with the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn.

Download the full programme here.