Call for Rest

Rest can enable us to imagine, nurture, and dream of something else. And rest is urgently needed in our over-exhausted, over-stimulated, accelerated environments. 

If we really believe that unlimited growth is not sustainable or possible, if we truly seek to know differently and strive for regenerative ways of being, we need to rest. We need to rest more, and in spite of! 

In this panel, we will (re)learn to support, share, and cultivate rest; as a form of healing, a way of (un)knowing and being with the world, as a way of allowing hopes and dreams to manifest. 

We ask: How do we bring about rest-full states, and rest-full ways of relating? How do we deal with inequalities and differences in access to and needs of rest? How do we rest in ways that enact solidarity and connectedness, also with other species and more-than-human entities?

Participants

• Niklas Alexander Chimirri, associate professor, Roskilde University, Denmark
• Jaakko Hilppö, university lecturer, Helsinki University, Finland
• Bergen Jome, Mihai Baicu & Emmie Hill, New Urban Voices, INTERNATIONAL
• Oline Brønd og Line Tolshave, Asteria/ Restful circles, Denmark
• Silje Erøy Sollien, she, post doc researcher, Royal Danish Academy
• Nana-Francisca Schottländer (she/they), Performance and visual artist, Artistic director of KRITISK MASSE//CRITICAL MASS 
• Magma Rea / Margrethe Møller, she/they, artist, music performer and regenerative facilitator, Denmark
• Lukas Quist Lund, he/they, artistic director of Bureau for Listening, Denmark. 

Language: English

This session is presented by Linda Lapina in collaboration with Nana-Francisca Schottländer and Lukas Lund