John Jordan
We Are "Nature" Defending Itself: Entangling art, activism and autonomous zones.
How do we radically transform art, activism and everyday life in the midst of the horrors of the Capitalocene? Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan (Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination) grapple with these questions via their version of the incredible story of the zad (Zone à Défendre - Zone to Defend - https://zadforever.blog/), their home since 2016 in Brittany. These 4000 acres of of wetlands, farmland and forest were due to be destroyed for a new international airport, but in 2018 after 40 years of struggle the infernal infrastructure was defeated... It was not the end of the adventure.
John (Jay) Jordan co-founded the direct action groups Reclaim the Streets and the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, worked as a cinematographer for Naomi Klein’s The Take and co-edited the book We Are Everywhere: the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism (Verso 2004). Isabelle Frémeaux was a senior lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck College-University, London, until she resigned in December 2011 to escape wage labour and academia. Her action research explores popular education, storytelling and creative forms of resistance. Together they co-founded the art activism and permaculture collective The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination www.labofii.net
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