THE PRACTICE OF DEMOCRACY / AN ANALOGUE CAMPAIGN (2019)

Public speeches take place unexpectedly in various places where people meet. This time, though, the speeches are not made by politicians but by inhabitants of the city who followed a six-day workshop with the maker in order to create their own speech on politics and social coexistence. What can this mean for the practice of democracy and the way we live together? Questions such as how do we take common decisions, how do we organize ourselves collectively, what do we want to decide together etc., become the starting point for a sharing of stories related to the way we understand our social coexistence.

As digital forms of civic engagement are multiplying today, reaching fast, directly and abstractly the ‘many’, the Analogue Campaign seeks to return to the micro-scale of moving ‘from mouth to mouth’, looking for the political action in physicality, encounter and the public as ‘commons’. The speakers of the Analogue Campaign take the floor addressing their fellow citizens, sharing concerns and exploring the dynamic of unexpected encounters in public space.