23 > 27.06.25
Les SUBS
Isa and Jay co-host the Laboratoire d’imagination insurrectionnelle, which is based at the Notre-Dame-des-Landes ZAD.
Isa Fremeaux (she/her) is an educator, facilitator and author. She grew up in France before moving to London, where she worked as a freelance journalist, French teacher and administrator of a community arts company, while completing a PhD thesis on the concept of community. She became a Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck College-University of London (UK) where she worked for 10 years, before leaving academia to embrace freedom and collective life. Engaged in social movements for almost 20 years, she has facilitated assemblies gathering several hundred people, co-organised international mobilisations and climate camps, trained thousands of people to reinvent modes of disobedience... Her passion is to explore collective dynamics and all the ways in which these can be made more fruitful and joyful, notably through popular education and rituals. She happily shares her skills to support and accompany various collectives, groups and associations in their flourishing.
Jay Jordan or JJ is labelled a “Domestic Extremist” by the UK police, and “a magician of rebellion” by the French press. JJ has spent three decades applying what they learnt from theatre and performance art to direct action. They like spaces betwixt and between of all sorts, especially between art and activism, culture and “nature”, the masculine and feminine, protest and proposition. They have performed in museums and International Theater Festivals, trained people in squats, co-organised climate camps, choreographed carnivalesque riots, written a BBC radio play for today, and an opera-for-one. Jay Jordan is an author, art activist, part-time sex worker and full time trouble maker.
Choreographing as If Life Depended On It: Artivism, Disobedience and magick.
Dance was perhaps one of the most ancient popular arts, practiced in a time long before the concept of art was invented. In a time before art had been violently split from life; when the toxic binary performer/spectator, beautiful/useful had not emerged. In the polycrises of today, does it still make sense to create work stuck in these ancient binaries? Why not choreograph the crowd movements in an anti-fa action ? Why not design movements for rituals that heal a community? This workshop with the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination will explore these questions through embodied practice.