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(Hypo)theses of Sensible Intelligence: Meeting and Discussion with Jacques Rancière and the Theses Working Group

On 18th of March 2023 the working group of the Guerilla University and the former and current artists and researchers in residence at the Orangeries de Bierbais, met with the French philosopher Jacques Rancière at the Kulturakademiet in Paris. The gathering was initiated and organized by the PhD In One Night/ Laboratory for Radical Peace in residence at the Orangeries de Bierbais, in order to discuss the (Hypo)theses on Sensible Intelligence, a collective text consisting of 30 ideas/statements written by the residents, and inspired by the work of Jacques Rancière. This collective act of thinking and writing – putting the collective intelligence in practice – presents an attempt to reconfigure the private domain and historical English garden built in 1828 by the German/Dutch architect Charles-Henri Petersen (also the architect of the Botanical garden in Brussels, designed in 1830), a place envisioned and established under the colonial laws and regimes, now entering a new period The reconfiguration of this place is thought under new protocols of work and collective influences, relating the Orangeries de Bierbais with the theses from Rancière’s s book “The Time of the Landscape: On the Origins of the Aesthetic Revolution'' (2020). The gathering in Paris consisted of several interventions: introductory notes, presentation of the ”Green braids” action in Rojava, collective reading of the (Hypo)theses on the Sensible Intelligence, the response and interventions by Jacques Rancière, musical interventions, poetry readings, and finalized with a collective zoom discussion between (Kurdish part of) Iraq, Croatia, Brazil, Rojava, and Poland. The speakers included Slobodan Golubović, Elisabetta Cuccero, Gulistan Sido, Jacques Rancière, Ivana Momčilović, Alexandra van Laeken, Camille Rancière, Kosta Jakic, Pedro Hussak, Mansour Taifouri, Leonardo Kovačević, Erdem Gunduz, Anders Fjeld. The event on the 18th of March was dedicated to the Kurdish action of planting four million trees in the Rojava desert, in the middle of the war and, in continuation with it, to the action of planting Olives of peace in Orangeries de Bierbais. Olives of peace were planted in Bierbais on 1st of March 2023, by the Kurdish representatives Gulistan Sido, Mensur Taifouri and friends, a gesture repeated on the 29th of September by Mansour Teifouri and friends, including Jacques Rancière, within the frame of “Les Temps du Paysage'' – a one-day multidisciplinary gathering, and a day of aesthetic cartography of situations. All materials from these gatherings – as well as the one announced at the Academie des arts visuels of Molenbeek in Brussels (late 2023 or beginning of 2024) – will serve as the basis for a publication dedicated to the Guerilla University, as the specific, self-organized form of sharing of knowledge based on unexplanation, self-learning, indisciplinarity and aesthetic education. Guerilla University is a program ( proposed by PhD In One Night, in collaboration with the action “Tresses vertes”/ Rojava University (temporary free territory in Kurdish Autonomous Region of Northern Syria) and Orangeries de Bierbais. Special thanks to Xavier Lowenthal for several pictographies shown during the program. Special special thanks to Naima Berkane and friends for providing the video recording of this precious moment.
Videos edited by Nedjo Gavrić