In search of connections for Tiny Spaces Deep Connections

The Bureau of Slow Endeavours will embark on a new journey in June. I have been invited by Tiny Spaces Deep Connections to travel by public transport (train/bus/boat, no flying) from the Bureau’s new headquarters in Fontao, Galicia (Spain) to Inwole in Potsdam (Germany). The residency offers a unique opportunity to research slow travel while creatively integrating the journey into the artistic process. At Inwole, an educational and cultural association focusing on political and cultural education, sustainability and solidarity-based economies, I will live and work in a tiny house/trailer at the Project House Potsdam-Babelsberg for three weeks, connecting and collaborating with the local community before travelling back slowly.

I will travel with a mobile version of the Bureau of Slow Endeavours that will have 3 components: 
1. travelling with a living culture: a sourdough starter (bacteria & yeast) that has to be fed and taken care of during the journey and can be shared with people I encounter (because it multiplies very fast) 
2. cosmos daydream seeds that will be dispersed along the route, creating a living trail of the journey & collecting new seeds while travelling 
3. collection of (natural) materials that can be used for drawing and will be used to both document the journey (during and after) and the on-site explorations but are also an integral part of the journey because they are found on the way (f.e.: plant material to turn into wild ink, liquids, pigments, grease, mud, anything that leaves a mark when put on paper). 
I will wear a business suit, aka three-piece-walking suit. In the last 10 years, I’ve been doing many slow projects using a suit in a non-conventional way as an anti-capitalist act. I call my suit my Soft Armour, it keeps me warm, safe, sound, it opens doors. It is my uniform, my costume, my house, I use it to collect stories in and it is as comfortable as any outfit I can think of, especially because I don’t mind when it gets dirty, torn, worn out, when the world leaves its traces. The suit I’ll be wearing is covered in hand embroidered questions people have been asking me during earlier projects and while travelling I’ll collect new ones and embroider them on the suit.

Workshops connected to the 3 components that can be organised during the travelling and/or on-site: working with sourdough/fermentation processes, guerilla gardening with seedbombs, using & making natural and alternative drawing materials, slow practises/walking art

I am looking for connections and exchanges on the road. People who can host me for a night (or 2 if you’d like me to give a proper presentation or workshop). This can be very low-key: you offer me a bed or sofa and I’ll share my sourdough culture and knowledge about using it with you (and friends or family if you’d like them to take part), embroider your question on my suit, leave some cosmos daydream seeds on your windowsill or in your garden, share my stories from the road. This can also be at a cultural, art or educational institution where I can do the same but also give a presentation or workshop. 

I am looking for places to stay and exchange:
* 1-7 June in: Northern Spain/Basque Country/Barcelona or a city like Madrid with a good connection to France (around June 1-2), France (around June 2-4), Northern Italy/Switzerland/Austria (around June 3-6), Southern Germany (June 6-7)
* 29/30 June: Paris
* 30 June/1 July: Barcelona
* First week of July: anywhere in Spain
But I am open to making detours if it can fit my planning

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