AWOL Collective

“Mourning names a methodology for engaging with the ever-changing states of time, landscape, and collective memory. Rather than signalling a fixed moment of loss, it marks a continuous practice of interpreting, and inhabiting transformation. This becomes a way to learn, for example from glaciers: a melting body whose shifting borders, sediments, and temporalities reflect layered forms of disappearance. To mourn is neither to withdraw nor to idealise what is gone, but to acknowledge absence as an overwhelming presence, a force capable of reshaping the terrain and the political imagination. Through mourning, fiction becomes a tool for envisioning alternative realities and new forms of agency: it allows the disappearing body of the glacier to articulate itself beyond scientific measurement, beyond nationally established borders, and beyond extractive narratives of progress. Practicing mourning means working against the paralysis often produced by scientific data and, instead, approaching climate transformation as a site of multispecies intimacy and shared vulnerability. It invites unlearning the idea of the glacier as static, remote, or solely geological, and understanding it instead as a dynamic agent of cultural, ecological, and political change. In this way, mourning opens space for imagining post-glacial futures collectively: futures that emerge not from denial or nostalgia, but from attentive coexistence with processes of loss that are already shaping our immediate world.” — AWOL The first contribution to #MourningaGlacier in the Ways and Workings collection. 📖 Explore more in ISSUES 2025: Collective Glossary ’25 #ExquisiteCommons #ISSUES2025 #AWOL

Tentacular archive By AWOL Belén Arellano Cañizares, Giuliana Marmo, Stefan Ralevic [Abstract] “This work assembles a series of temporal fragments narrated by Sym, a non-singular, tentacular consciousness inspired by the life cycle of Turritopsis dohrnii, the so-called immortal jellyfish. Rather than following a linear chronology, the narrative unfolds as a looping archive where multiple generations of cloned jellyfish re-encounter landscapes across time. As glaciers defrost, seas warm and darken, and human infrastructures rise and disappear, this shifting narrator collapses distinctions between organism and environment, echoing theories of tentacular thinking and multispecies kinship. Each fragment captures a moment of the future that retains a resemblance of the past, seen through ice, fire, pollution, water, migration, or myths; revealing how geological processes and cultural imaginaries co-produce one another. By adopting a perspective that is both from the polyps and at a planetary level, the text proposes an alternative mode of storytelling about climate change: one that resists the urge for endings, embracing instead cycles of regression, renewal, and return. The immortality of Turritopsis dohrnii becomes a metaphor for non-anthropocentric memory, suggesting that the future cannot be written as a single line but must be felt through layered temporalities. Blending scientific observation, myth-making, and political reflection, this narrative asks how beings (human and nonhuman) might inhabit an unstable planet without relying on fantasies of permanence. It invites the reader to consider what forms of kinship, attention, and imagination emerge when time itself becomes fluid.” 📖 Read the full text in ISSUES 2025: Exquisite Commons: ➡️ schoolofcommons.org/making-public/issues/2025/tentacular-archive #SchoolofCommons #ExquisiteCommons #ISSUES2025 #AWOL

Collective Score For What Is Gone by AWOL (Glacier Rapport) 🗓 Thursday, 5 February 🕓 16:00–16:30 CET 🌐 Public / Online 🔗 Zoom link in bio This work unfolds as a collective act of listening and sounding. Glacial soundscapes form an unstable ground, further fractured by the digital conditions of the meeting. Within this terrain, participants are invited to enter intuitively. Voices appear briefly—without discussion or response—becoming part of a live composition that cannot be repeated. Nothing is resolved or explained; the piece exists only for the duration of our listening together. #SchoolOfCommons #SoCAssembly2026 #MakingAVesselInTheSky #AWOL #GlacierRapport

Join us this Saturday at @maxim_gorki_theater for Glacier Soup! Glaciers are shapeshifting archives, when they grow, they preserve; when they melt, they release memory that seeps through the landscape. Recipes, too, are archives of habits, traditions, and displacements. As glaciers change state, recipes travel, carrying methods rather than guidelines. A community that dilutes no longer holds a single form but expands through shared gestures and evolving customs. Cooking together can become a way to hold, transform and practice disappearance. Join us from 16:00-18:00 at the KIOSK FOR A MAGIC FUTURE by IMAGINARY COLLECTIVE as part of the 7th Berliner Herbstsalon - ЯЕ:IMAGINE: THE RED HOUSE Menu: Vegan Venezuelan Hervido

Workshop für Kinder (6-12 Jahre) Bring eure eigenen Regenmäntel oder Gummistiefel mit und verwandelt sie in Sumpf-Tierkostüme für Halloween ☔️ Do., 30.10. 18:00-19:30 in Stockwerk Galerie bei @fluten_weimar Kontaktiere uns, um dir einen Platz zu sichern: [email protected] oder pm📩 Dies ist eine kostenfreie Aktivität des AWOL Collective mit @sophierfoster im Rahmen der Themenausstellung „After the Flood: Permeable Learnscapes“ zu einem gemeinsamen Raum der Reflexion ein - und zum Vorstellen möglicher Zukünfte des Zusammenlebens mit Wasser.

Permeable Imprints : School at the end of the flood for @fluten_weimar After the Flood : Permeable Learnscapes How do we inscribe the environment and how does it inscribe itself upon us? We will experiment with surfaces, textures and gaps between the landscape and our bodies. Join us next Thursday at 18:00 in @stockwerkprojectspace by signing up at fluten-weimar.de or by sending a private message.

River Scores : School at the end of the flood for @fluten_weimar After the Flood: Permeable Learnscapes How can the landscape narrate itself through us? We will create a score for the river through a listening walk, graphical scoring and retranslating collectively again into sound. Join us next Thursday at 18:00 in @stockwerkprojectspace by signing up at fluten-weimar.de or by sending a private message.

Glacier Rapport How can we learn from something that is disappearing? How can we instrumentalize the post-glacial landscape as a tool for fostering collective knowledge? ‘When a glacier disappears not only the geological archive of a place is lost, but also the tales and the future imaginary surrounding it dilute as well. Approaching mourning as a learning methodology, we aim to create imaginative fictions that envision possible political realities. We project our own experiences in this melting body that includes all these layers of loss: memories, archives, ghosts, and grieving for something much bigger than us. Dealing with absence as an overwhelming presence, that takes up space and different shapes; but that can also push forward radical change as it modifies the landscape and thus notions of national borders or urbanity.’ Project by AWOL (absent.withoutleave)—a interdisciplinary collective for artistic research on political imaginaries towards climate futures Active members: Stefan Ralevic, Belén Arellano Cañizares, Giuliana Marmo. Learn more 👉 /program/labs/glacier-rapport #schoolofcommons #soc25 #yuewu #thecoloursofthebreathingofecosystems #awol #stefanralevic #belénarellanocañizares #giulianamarmo #methodsforknowledgedecentralisation #creativeclimatecommunicating #artisticresearch #archive spatialforensics #zhdk

EN Mutual Radio Horizon is not just a performance—it’s a feminist, sonic takeover of collective practices. Join Shortwave Collective + AWOL as they activate radios, bodies & signals in a choreography of deep listening and radical coexistence. 16.08 | 1 PM | EIGENHEIM Weimar & transmission on Radio Lotte DE Mutual Radio Horizon ist mehr als nur eine Performance – es ist eine feministische, klangliche Übernahme, kollektiver Praxis. Begleitet das Shortwave Collective + AWOL, wenn sie Radios, Körper und Signale in einer Choreografie des tiefen Zuhörens und der radikalen Koexistenz aktivieren. 16.08 | 13 Uhr | EIGENHEIM Weimar & Übertragung auf Radio Lotte #somaphon2025 #ShortwaveCollective #AWOL #RadioArt

Workshop for children and families - Instrument making with recycled material from the HKW Nord Sounds of the Future / Läuten der Zukunft 03/08 14:00-17:00 at the @begehungen.festival German/English/Italian/Spanish/Serbian Can a power plant sound like music? This workshop invites children to explore the potential of repurposed materials left behind at the HKW Nord before its imminent dismantling. With guidance, young participants will transform discarded objects into devices that make sound, discovering the power of creativity in upcycling while reflecting on the sounds of the future. This workshop encourages imaginative thinking and environmental awareness, offering a playful approach to sustainability. Free to join! Write to us at [email protected] or send us a private message to book.

“Byproducts” / “Nebenprodukten” 27/07 14:00-17:00 at the @begehungen.festival Candle making with gypsum molds What gets left behind by the energy production industry and how can it be repurposed? Reflecting on the relevance of gypsum as a byproduct of coal burning, we discuss the current implications of energy shifts while explaining how to cast with this material, commonly used to build affordable housing. Through these gypsum molds, we produce together a copy of the infrastructure of the plant in the shape of an alternative way to create warmth. Free to join! Only few spots left. Write to us at [email protected] or send us a private message to book.

the archive is growing! thank you so much for participating in our first workshop “Letters to the Archive” at the @begehungen.festival this past Sunday, it was beautiful to see the garage where our Third Fictions archive is shown being used to create even more collaborative archive entries. Can’t wait for the next one! Come join us next weekend for our second workshop, book a spot by sending us an email to [email protected] or by sending us dm.