ON MOBILISATION: Towards Multivocal Collaborative Futures , 2026
ON MOBILISATION
NEW BEGINNINGS
We are happy to share with you that On Mobilisation continues!
The first phase of the project, that ended in 2025, was shaped through collaboration between visual art and performance institutions; wpZimmer in Antwerp (BE), Baltic Art Center in Visby (SE), Studio ALTA in Prague (CZ) and Lavanderia a Vapore in Collegno (IT). Rooted in international solidarity and attentive to local specificities, it brought together artists, communities and cultural workers committed to social justice, equality and radical forms of civic participation. Together with artists Kalle Brolin, Elisabetta Consonni, Daniele Ninarello, Ahilan Ratnamohan, Marika Smreková, and Danae Theodoridou, the project explored how artistic research and practice can become spaces for listening, organising, imagining and mobilising otherwise. On Gotland, BAC led the project On the Language of Mobilisation, which included Kalle Brolin’s artistic research project, Peace on Gotland.
New relationships, questions, practices and ways of working together have been growing across different local contexts since then, bringing us to the next chapter — On Mobilisation. Towards Multivocal Collaborative Futures (2026–2029), also co-funded by the European Union. The project is facilitated by an expanded circle of partner organisations based in Europe: Lavanderia a Vapore, Baltic Art Center, Out of Sight in Antwerpen (BE), Divadlo X10 in Prague (CZ) and BLOK — Local Base for Culture Refreshment in Zagreb (HR).
At the centre is a simple but demanding question: what conditions are needed for people to feel agency, to enter into collective authorship, and to imagine shared futures? The project approaches artistic practice as a way of engaging with social and political realities, with care, attention and responsibility.
ON MOBILISATION - TOWARDS MULTIVOCAL COLLABORATIVE FUTURES
As a transnational collective in formation, we root our practices in the principles and legacies of direct democracy, peer-to-peer education, self-management, and horizontal organisation. These principles underpin every aspect of the project: from artistic research, creation and curation, to governance, communication, participation, and dissemination.
We are organised through five locally rooted Study Circles in Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Czech Republic and Croatia, bringing together people with different experiences and forms of knowledge. Each Study Circle focuses on one of the five thematic pillars: visual literacy (BAC), new forms of social realism (Out of Sight), socially engaged approaches to heritage (BLOK), critical imagination (Lavanderia a Vapore), and the redefinition of success in the cultural field (Divadlo X10). These local processes will be connected through Gathering Points, transnational residencies and meetings where different voices, languages, practices and unresolved questions can meet.
This new phase creates conditions for collective learning, co-creation and experimentation. It works with culture as a space where democratic relations can be rehearsed, where communities can gather around difficult questions, and where artistic practice can contribute to more just, caring and sustainable ways of living and working together.
While we are working on our new website, we invite you to revisit On Mobilisation: Micro- and transnational communities mobilisation through artistic practice and spend time with the traces of the project and download publications developed between 2023 and 2025.