Workshop Facilitated by guest artist Juan Duque

AT Fydani: Chiou 27 Athens

The Positionality through Communal Attentive Listening gave us a chance to share thoughts, ideas, opinions, and memories while learning from one another. Through this workshop, we explored diverse understandings of positionality by engaging in drawing lines, body movement, and informal conversations. We recognised the importance of positionality as a collective practice for raising awareness of our situatedness in the world. We engaged in three main practices throughout the day: wondering, turbulence, and constellations. These followed a methodology of attentive communal listening through creative methods such as body movement, drawing lines, writing short texts, and collective reading. After each practice, we gathered as a group to listen to one another and discuss how the practice resonated with us. In a broader sense, positionality is a practice that involves considering how you are situated in a specific time and space, where you are interconnected and coexist with other people and more-than-human beings through attentive communal listening. As a group, we learned that attentive communal listening requires decentring of the self as the focus of perception and embracing our radical interdependency with other bodies and the more-than-human.   This workshop invited us to embrace positionality as a collective practice that involves everyone. This encompasses mobilising intersections between privilege and systems of oppression in our everyday lives; it is a praxis that interrogates why we are all affected by various systems of oppression and categorization, engaging in open discussions and embracing transformations towards a world where many worlds can coexist.