‘Home to Roost’ is an experimental public gathering that blends town-hall discussion, performance, and participatory workshop. With US artist Jeremiah Day, we create space for collective reflection on urgent crises — disability benefit cuts, cost-of-living, climate, youth violence, wars, crisis of democracy, transforming them into embodied responses; in a way that moves beyond passive consumption of news and towards active meaning-making as a precondition for civic life.

”the recent cataclysm of events, tumbling over one another, whose sweeping force leaves everybody, spectators who try to reflect on it and actors who try to slow it down, equally numbed and paralyzed…”

-Hannah Arendt, ‘Home To Roost’

The project takes inspiration from Hannah Arendt’s 1975 text, ‘Home to Roost’, in which she argued that politics begins with the act of facing difficult facts. In the current climate of dramatic events —where events unfold at overwhelming speed, making it difficult to process their impact—Home to Roost challenges this inertia by modeling new methods of engagement.

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