By borrowing tools from performance art and through workshops guided by curated guests, Unknown Grounds encourages different modes of playful participation and critical inquiry. Immersed in a theatrical atmosphere, participants become 'personas' where reality and fiction mingle, out of the conviction that hands-on and speculative labor are both crucial to building the public towards something different than what it is today.
Second edition contributors: Nishant Shah, Hamja Ahsan, Lila Athanasiadou, Ribal El-Khatib, Nina Glockner, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Eef Veldkamp, Anna Moreno.
First edition contributors: Andrej Radman, Sissel Marie Tonn, Ribal, Theun Karelse, Masha Ru, Bert Looper, Flora Reznik.
Unknown Grounds is a transdisciplinary space where we become performers in a collective play without stage or audience, where we experiment with the plasticity of the self, towards becoming other than what we are as individuals. Learning is meant to be a transformative experience.
Unknown Grounds II: The Public Building focuses on how our public domains are constituted and enacted and wonders how they can be built otherwise.
Video documentation · The Public Building, 2022
Video documentation · First edition, 2019