Alix Eynaudi & Anne Faucheret
Carrying and moving signs. A workshop on the politics of bannering.

Carrying a banner is to hold something precarious yet powerful, claiming space often subject to erasure. By embracing banners as unstable choreographic forces, we become open to forms of protest, presence, and collectivity that arise not from fixity but from the potency of the unresolved.

Banners display, contest, protest, support or inform, but above all, they gather. They take a stand, throw a statement, and demand attention: Within a specific context; with or without words. They are aesthetically and politically informed. They are carried into action. Sometimes, they call into action too. More than signs, banners are forces.

Historically and emotionally charged, banners are signs, tools, and spells. In this workshop, participants explore banners as material artworks, semiotic dispositives, performative agents, and collective objects, while engaging with their diverse "their"stories. And maybe make some!