{"id":31912,"date":"2025-07-14T12:14:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T10:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/?p=31912"},"modified":"2025-07-14T12:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T10:37:59","slug":"adrift-mammalian-diving-reflex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/base.milano.it\/en\/adrift-mammalian-diving-reflex\/","title":{"rendered":"ADRIFT: Walking as a Political Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In May 2025, BASE hosted the first phase of the artistic residency by Mammalian Diving Reflex: an intensive workshop involving the participants of the Sottospecie program, part of the international project Mammalian Droppings<\/a><\/span>.

For one week, a group of young participants \u201cdrifted\u201d through the Tortona neighborhood, engaging in a radical form of urban observation. Guided by the Canadian artistic collective, they collected dozens of stories, details, questions\u2014and, above all, relationships. They met with residents, shopkeepers, commuters, and passersby, practicing a deep, unfiltered form of listening based on empathy and curiosity.

Mammalian calls this method \u201csocial acupuncture\u201d: a way of reading the territory through what remains unseen, connecting personal micro-stories to collective tensions, and generating new imaginaries for public space.

The result? More than 30 concepts for participatory performances, all born from the desire to flip traditional roles between artist and audience, center and margin, ordinary and extraordinary.
Some of the ideas included:
\u2192 a neighborhood caf\u00e9 run by retirees,
\u2192 an intergenerational rave,
\u2192 performances that turn everyday gestures into poetic rituals,
\u2192 urban explorations confronting the tension between the district\u2019s polished image and its lived reality.

This phase, titled Adrift<\/a><\/span>, lays the foundation for the Mammalian Droppings<\/a><\/span> project: a collective exercise in radical imagination that travels across different cities\u2014Milan, Qu\u00e9bec City, Riga\u2014bringing together emerging artists and local communities.

The workshop concluded with a public presentation, open to the city: a sharing of the ideas and stories that emerged throughout the process, giving the audience a chance to engage with the narratives and reflections that surfaced.

The project continues with Many Many Ways, the second phase of the residency, taking place July 13\u201318, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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