Confronted with the SARS-CoV-2 crisis, we unfortunately had to cancel this event.

In an increasingly fragmented society beset by ongoing transformative “crises”, is it possible to address people collectively other than through rules and laws, simplistic political messages, mainstream media or advertising? Lecture For Every One-20 is one such attempt. Conceived for the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in 2013, Sarah Vanhee’s Lecture For Every One is now being passed on to a new generation and appropriated by a group of teenagers. The original proposition remains unchanged however in the form “guerrilla” moments where someone unexpectedly turns up in different places where meetings are already being held for professional or private purposes (a sports club, lecture, union meeting etc.) and “hijacks” their agenda for around fifteen minutes to read Lecture For Every One-20. In this new text, the young people tackle their preoccupations with our collective life and current forces acting on the human condition in order to rethink an ethics for living together. In the frame of News From Home of Kunstenfestivaldesarts, the teenagers and Sarah Vanhee present a performance that reconstructs these “guerrilla” moments in which political reflections collide and blends together what the young people shared in the places of their choice.

Sarah Vanhee’s Lecture For Every One continues to resonate as a book. This publication is a compilation of expertise and insights that Lecture For Every One has generated: feedback, stories and memories from different points of view. It reflects on how places where people gather can become political institutions, on the (im)possibility to address everyone and on the value of fiction in our daily lives. The book (in English) is now available in book stores or you can order it here.

See also:  We Are Before