Nomads, fluid communities, escapism, gallery rainbow, symbiotic workshops.

Temporary Paradises is a project based on the creation of a temporary community that will inhabit the gallery at the time of the exhibition. The gallery space will be open for active participation, anyone who can join us and for some time with us to occupy the gallery, whether for a workshop, an overnight stay or the entire duration of the exhibition. We will try to create a safe space for full-fledged encounters, for sensitivity and mutual reflection, for sharing and interactions that are not common in the gallery space.

The main line of the program will be a continuous series of facilitated community meetings. Facilitators will prepare and present a variety of techniques for meaningful inner work and exploration of group dynamics. The culmination of this process will be a two-day workshop on Creating Communities by Scott M. Peek, which focuses on the restructuring of our usual communication, on the subject of relationships, decision-making, consensus, community-based conflict.

In addition, other events will take place during the exhibition are based on the current needs and possibilities of the community. Space will be open to everyone to initiate an activity through which the team can enrich and at the same time allow the viewer to change from a passive consumer to an active co-creator. There will be various activities, from all-night concerts, author's readings, everyday yoga practices, movement workshops to lectures, discussion or action training, joint cooking from container catches or excursions and exploration around the gallery.

The intention is to explore and open up the themes that live in us, to share the views of alternative ways of coexistence, the various forms of symbiotic coexistence, or to provide a background for someone who does not have a place to live and work for just a few days / weeks.

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