“Why did we not get the revolutions we deserve ? Maybe because most of our movements are burnout machines. It’s not personal, but political, because it depends on our social positioning and is caused by extractivist culture, but what would regenerative activism feel like ?
Between participatory taster workshop, burnout bio performance and ending in an extra mini rave, Jay Jordan will facilitate a session to explore how we might find ways to build regenerative cultures of activism. Regenerative activism is more than holding on and keeping going, it’s creating a culture of resistance that has the capacity to restore, renew and revitalise itself. At its heart is care.
Burnout doesn’t just mean our movements lose their people but intergenerational wisdom is often lost and we have to begin again. We change cultures by replacing behaviours and mindsets that reproduce an extractivist approach, with practices that deepen our relationships and capacity to care for each other. This taster workshop is based on an intensive 10 day workshop at international activist training centre Ulex, where Jay co-facilitates.
Labelled a “Domestic Extremist” by the police, and “a magician of rebellion” by the press, Jay Jordan (they/she) is an art-activist, author, trainer, part time witch, dj and sex worker, full time trouble maker. Co-founder of Reclaim the Streets and the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army. Since 2004 Jay co-facilitates the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, bringing artists and activists together to design and deploy creative disobedience. They live in the commune of the ZAD of Notre-dame-des-Landes, Britanny, where a 40 year struggle stopped a destructive international airport project. Their last co-authored book is ‘We Are ‘Nature’ Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism & Autonomous Zones.’ (Pluto)”
