workshops / residencies

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Terre(s)

Projet de Laurent Lacotte et Judith Lavagna – juin 2025.

Une création collective et sensorielle autour de la terre en collaboration avec Le Compa, musée de l’agriculture départemental de Chartres, France. Avec une classe de CM2 de l’école du Chemin Vert de Courville-sur-Eure, des jeunes du DAME Antoine Fauvet de Nogent-le-Rotrou et des résidents du Foyer de vie Gérard Vivien.

À partir de modelages, empreintes, pigments naturels et écritures, les participant.e.s ont été invité.e.s à explorer leur lien avec le vivant et leur connexion à la terre. Entre le désir d’exprimer leurs souhaits et de vivre une expérience commune, ces ateliers ont permis aux participant.e.s des trois structures de se découvrir, d’expérimenter et d’exposer le fruit de leurs rencontres au Festival de la terre, dans le parc du Foyer de vie Gérard Vivien.

Images : Laurent Lacotte & Judith Lavagna

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Belleville Citoyenne

Responsable des Ateliers et Projets | juillet 2024 à janvier 2025

Définition de la programmation culturelle et des parcours pédagogiques dans les secteurs du cinéma, théâtre, éducation aux médias et création sonore, à destination des jeunes et des publics éloignés de l’offre culturelle du 20 arrondissement de Paris ; élaboration et suivi des partenariats par projet (Théâtre National de La Colline, Pavillon Carré de Baudoin, MPAA, Théâtre Ouvert..) en lien avec le Centre Social des Rigoles, La Maison du Bas Belleville, la Fondation Feu Vert et la Mission Locale.
Un grand merci aux intervenant.e.s et aux participant.e.s, ainsi qu’à la Mairie du 20e, DRAC et DAC.

Images: Judith Lavagna, 2024.

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The River Assembly / L’Assemblée du Fleuve

​A series of conversations and workshops at DOCK B, Pantin, 22 & 23 June 2024.

The River Assembly is a militant series of conversations and workshops based on the river sustainability in 4 themes: Art, Health, Democracy and Heritage. A project by Vincent Guimas, coordinated by Judith Lavagna in the frame of L’Odyssée 5th edition.

A project hosted by Ars Longa in the frame of The Power Europe Narrative for Civic Ecology (PENCE) – HARBOR European project – New European Bauhaus.

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Hausen e.V. – The Gray Voice Ensemble

Workshops and residency at Hausen e.V, Lychen and Berlin (GR), May 2023.

Performance in Neuruppin (GR) dedicated to writer Teddy Fontane.

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N-LEBEN – 15leben

A project by Birgit Kunz, Judith Lavagna, Katharina Kamph, Mario Margani, Mirjam Dorsch, Sabrina Schieke und Sandra Schieke.

Kunsthalle Below, Nazarethkirchstr. 42, 13347 Berlin-Wedding, May 2022.

Workshops :

May 10th, 2022 7:00 pm. the technique of rust printing under the guidance of Katharina Kamph.

May 14th, 2022, 3:00 pm. the technique of cyanotype by Judith Lavagna.

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(n)unsichtbar

A series of artistic and ecological workshops conducted by Judith Lavagna with the class 5F of the Regenbogen elementary school in Berlin-Neukölln SESB (prof. Betty Lang, Johannes Erdmann), Oct. 2021.

Publication concept and editing: Judith Lavagna. Grafic design: Sonia Erb. Text: Judith Lavagna & Betty Lang.

LINK to (n)unsichtbar.

Supported by the Bezirkskulturfonds Berlin-Neukölln, Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung 2021.

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Stadtleben/ Urbanes lernen

Stadtleben/ Urbanes lernen (City Life/ Urban Learning) is a series of workshops on urban landscapes, mapping and performances conducted by Judith Lavagna with the class 4E of the Arkonaplatz elementary school (prof. Oriane Mac Mallick), Berlin-Mitte, 2021/2022.

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Notre Futur/ Unsere Zukunft

Digital art project in collaboration with Isabelle Stamm and Stephanie Labes. With the Rüttli Campus (Berlin-Neukölln) and Jean Lurcat College (Sarcelles).

Funded by the Deutsch-Französische Jugendwerk (DFJW – OFAJ), 2021.

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NIDA ART COLONY

Work retreat in Nida, Lithuania (LT), 16-24.12.2019.

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ELSEWHERE & OTHERWISE 6 ***QUEERING TIMES***

Collective care-making workshops in PA-F Performing Art Forum, St Erme, France.

11-21.07.2019

“Queering Times” invites all the participants to think their practices in relational time and to contribute to this collective care-making where different modes of being and making, pro-actively doing and wandering can easily shift or even collapse into each other.

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Impulse Theater Festival: Learning Plays – A School of Schools

Learning Plays – A School of Schools. A meeting of alternative academies, schools and universities, 2016.

With Chto Delat – School of Engaged Art (St. Petersburg); PAF – Performing Arts Forum (St. Erme); The Silent University (Athen, Amman, Hamburg, London, Mülheim, Stockholm); Vierte Welt Kollaborationen (Berlin).

A LEARNING PLAY: project conceived by Chto Delat (Nina Gasteva, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky), Jonathan Brooks Platt. 

With Aisling Marks, Anastasia Vepreva, Claudia Grigg Edo, Fawad Khan, Ilya Mirsky, Judith Lavagna, Kerri Jefferis, Kristina Lelovac, Lina Ruske, Natalya Pankina, Nina Gojic, Pablo Lechuga, Philipp Rödel, Roman Osminkin, Sumugan Sivanesan, Wong Wai-Yim.

Impulse Theater Festival, Mülheim/Ruhr, Ringlokschuppen Ruhr
One week residency. Performance: Friday 24 June 2016, 7.30 pm.

Four artist-initiated platforms for knowledge production and exchange move to Mülheim/Ruhr for one week. Instead of trying to invent yet another methodology for yet another summer academy, ‘Learning Plays – A School of Schools’ brings together four exemplary initiatives to share their practice by practical means. What are the opportunities and obligations facing art, artists, activism, theory and theater in these increasingly dramatic times? What are the organic intellectual practices which are being lived?
With Chto Delat and the School of Engaged Art, a working group of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers, the weeklong workshop “What is socialist art today?” consisted of creating, rehearsing and performing a new Lehrstück (learning play). Learning Plays situates itself in the context of alternative educational approaches – ranging from the youth and reform movements of the 1910s and Paulo Freire’s concept of critical pedagogy from the 1970s to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s current approach of aesthetic education – while also referencing Brecht’s Lehrstück theory: the idea of a theater with no division between audience and actors, an agonistic group situation focussed on learning how to understand and act within political reality. All four of the invited initiatives have developed their own very different performing models of knowledge production and transfer, while at the same time being deeply engaged in struggling with contemporary political realities.

The performance A LEARNING PLAY: What is socialist art today? Episode #1. New People attempts to reclaim and reconsider new forms of emancipatory education through art practice, performance and collaborative forms of work. It aims to find a new definition of socialist art and realism, as well as at tracing its genealogy and investigating the possibilities of its practical realization by merging political theory, art, and activism into a tool of political and civic empowerment.

The School of Engaged Art (St. Petersburg) was founded in 2012 by the Russian collective Chto Delat.

The Impulse Theater Festival 2016 is a project of the NRW KULTURsekretariat, in association with FFTDüsseldorf, studiobühneköln and Ringlokschuppen Ruhr.

Image credits: Dmitry Vilensky.

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Self-monitoring as a curatorial experiment
A collaborative investigation on curatorial practice

Project conceived and edited by Teena Lange, Judith Lavagna and Stefan Aue, Grüntaler 9, Berlin, 2014.

‘Self-monitoring as a curatorial experiment’ is a nine days research-residency based on a critical, experimental and cross-disciplinary dialogue focusing on collaborative curatorial strategies. With this exploration and introspection the practice of the curatorial is challenged and shaped in a real-time inquiry. During these days, the curators Teena Lange, Judith Lavagna and Stefan Aue invite artists, researchers and curators to participate in this investigation and to transfer the insights into different time-frames and territories (beyond or other than art). In this ongoing process speculative documents, critical workshops and brain-mapping series have been generated. This think tank puts the spot on various forms of knowledge production in the curatorial field which are worked into the production of a zine as an appearance and materialization of this ideas.

Talks, performances and reading/writing sessions:

‘Some things about how I wrote most of my essays’, a durational editing session performed by Carl Whetham and Joël Verwimp, artist and curatorial director at the Maria de Robe Collection, Berlin.
Based on their editing experience using skype during the past four years, Whetham & Verwimp will for the first time negotiate their ‘virtuosity’ in public. This reading and writing session is a prelude to the upcoming Maria de Robe (MdR) presentation series at various Berlin Museum Collections.

‘It’s All There In The Manual’ by Post Brothers, curator, www.postbrothers.org
Performative lecture based on retrocausal information, explanation as composition, preposterous and parasitic protagonists, and the presentational potentials of plasmatic property.

IS THIS ZINE A CURATORIAL PRACTICE WHICH REFLECTS ON ITS OWN MAKING?
by Teena Lange, Judith Lavagna and Stefan Aue
Zine launch and presentation. The Zine was printed in 50 ex.,15 pp, Berlin, 2014.

29 August – 06 September 2014, Grüntaler 9 – a space towards the performative, Berlin-Wedding.

In the frame of the Ungebügelt (II/III) series, supported by Bezirkskulturfonds 2014 of the Bezirksamt Mitte, Berlin.

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With Yildiz Aslandogan (architect), Fabien Bidaut (architect), Alicia Frankovich (artist), Judith Lavagna (curator), Aude Pariset (artist), Joanne Pouzenc (architect), Cailen Pybus (architect), Tanya Ostojic (artist), Vanessa Safavi (artist), Cathy Larqué (Bureau des arts plastiques), Matthias Böttger (curator at Deutsches Architektur Zentrum).

Bureau des Arts Plastiques – Institut Français, Program Jeunes Commissaires, in cooperation with the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum (DAZ).
Deutsches Architektur Zentrum (DAZ), Berlin, 28 November 2014.

How to rethink space and matter? This workshop focuses and operates at the intersection of art and architecture, about the relationship between language and the constitution of space. Dealing with projects in public space requires consideration of its discursive context.
How does the work of art or architecture interact with the multitude of voices that construct public space? How does this discursive context influence the relationship between artist, architect and participatory public? And what is its effect on the actors themselves?
The idea of the workshop is to exchange documents around the notion of public spaces and to discuss on the basis of this information.

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Politics of the small act

Program conceived by Katalin Erdödi (Robert Bosch Fellow), Julia Kurz and Radmila Joksimovic.

Museum of Contemporary Art (GFZK), Leipzig, 4-5 October 2012.

The initiative «Politics of the small act» invites 34 international actors (activists, artists, curators) from 13 countries to Leipzig for a two-days workshop at the intersection of artistic and socio-political discourses.With presentations, discussions, working groups and dinner debates, the event focuses on ‘small acts’ – micro-strategies of self-empowerment and self-organisation – as potential tools to induce social and/or political change. It explores different forms of intervention in the social fabric and maps artistic and civic strategies in the context of small acts.

With the support of Robert Bosch Foundation, Polish Institute Berlin – Branch in Leipzig, Heinrich Böll Foundation and Open Society Foundations.

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Initiative PAiR _ Performing Arts in Residence

Conceived and organized by PaiR, ResArtis and Schloss Bröllin e.V.

Program led by Josephine Heide, Katharina Husemann, Peter Legemann, Christine Schmalor.

With Riitta Tarvainen (Hovinkartano International Arts and Cultural centre, Finland), Judith Lavagna (curator, Germany), Adriana Garbagnati and Andrea Paciotto (La MaMa Umbria International/Offucina Eclectic Arts PG, Italy), Dock 11 Studios (Berlin, Germany), Alexander Schwan (FU Berlin, Germany).

K-Salon, Berlin, 02.12.2011

PAiR, part of the worldwide network Res Artis, was founded as a form of a working group in the aim of developing intercultural artistic productions and cooperations through « the general objective to strengthen existing and support the development of new residencies for performing artists ».

Residencies managers, curators and artists took part on a working day based on performing art practices in a residency context, its perspectives, ways of collaboration, production and fundings of the future.
Dance, theater and fine arts fields involved in residences centers and performance programs where selected by Schloss Bröllin, an international research center based in Germany focusing on theater, performance, dance and workshop projects.

With the support of ResArtis, Schloss Bröllin e.V, Initiative internationaler Tourismus Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (IIT), Réseau Européen des Centres Culturels de Rencontre (ACCR).

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Platforma 11

Conceived by Yvonne Anders and Julia Kurz

Platforma11 is an international and interdisciplinary project week which aims to create an open space process reflecting on the topics ‘art, politics and education’ and their relationship to one another. Around 50 artists and activists from Germany, Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, North Afrika and Israel with interdisciplinary approaches worked together in organizing workshops, panels and lectures as well as exhibitions, concerts, performances and interventions.

The «Building Networks» group, through a series of discussions, approached the topic of networking from as many possible angles as the number of its members. It was a task, not only of defining the term, but as well of finding possible application methods. To enrich this process we approached all the participants of Platforma11 in an attempt to document how networks are perceived and what networks exist among the people of the workshop.

10.-19.09.2011, Leipzig and Markkleeberg, Germany

With the support of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Kulturbahnhof Markkleeberg e.V., Giro e.V.

www.platforma11.net

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fugitif

A series of workshops and mobility exchange conceived and facilitated by Judith Lavagna and Neven Allanic, Paris 2010.

Participating artists and curators: Stefan Riebel, Julia Kurz, Regine Ehleiter, Ludovic Sauvage, Yannis Perez, Emmanuel Pevny, Pascal Chirol, Falk Messerschmidt.

Guests artists and curators: Géraldine Longueville, Gwenola Wagon et Stéphane Degoutin, Camille Paulhan et Emilie Bouvard (Portrait la Galerie), Marion Prouteau (DENA Art Fundation).

Artists and curators from Leipzig and Paris met at the gallery space Ars Longa for a 5 days workshop based on site-specificity exchanges, art in public space and creative networks.
Based in Leipzig (Germany) since 2008, fugitif is an non-profit organization run by artists and researchers. Residencies, art projects and workshops are initiated between France and Germany in order to promot artistic productions and collaborativ practices.

Ars Longa, Paris, 21 – 25 may 2010. With the support of L’Office franco-allemand de la Jeunesse (OFAJ) and Ars Longa.

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Kiss me Deadly

Workshop co-organized with prof. Eric Perrier, Jeff Guess and Judith Perron.
École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris-Cergy and Ars Longa, Paris, April 2009.

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Curating Degree Zero Archive

Concept by Barnaby Drabble and Dorothee Richter, curated by Celia Cretien, Marie de Bouard and Mélanie Mermod, June 16. – July 08. 2007, Point Éphémère, Paris.

Artistic contributions from: Nicolas Floc’h, Yann Sérandour, Aloïs Godinat, Jean-Christophe Huguenin, Körner Union.

Participants: Claire Daudin, Morgann Guyomarc’h, Marianna Liosi, Chen Tamir, Aria Spinelli, Judith Lavagna, Florence Ostende, Maïwenn Walter.

Curating Degree Zero Archive was launched to research, present and discuss changes in the practice of freelance curators, artist-curators, new-media curators and curatorial collaborations. Beginning in 1998 with a three-day symposium and an ensuing publication, the project focused on an expanding archive about these practices and its 1200 documents. Between 2003 and 2008 the archive toured to 17 venues, where it was displayed, used and accompanied by a programme of live events and discussions.

With the support of Association D.R.A.S.H, DRAC Île-de-France, Mairie de Paris.

www.curatingdegreezero.org