● BOOK DESIGN, 2022

The School of Infinite Rehearsals, Movement IV – While We’re Together

Authors: James Bridle, Dennis Dizon, Carolina Doriti, Bryony Dunne, Faidon Papadakis, Kenneth Pietrobono, Miriam Simun, Alexander Strecker, Ingrid Vranken
Editor: Alexander Strecker
Designers: Studio Precarity (Vassiliki-Maria Plavou and Marios Stamatis)

An Onassis AiR edition documenting the research of an interdisciplinary group of artists, editors and designers that worked together in Greece during the global pandemic.

Conceived as a collective research program of Onassis AiR, “The School of Infinite Rehearsals” brings together an interdisciplinary group of participants to exchange knowledge and practices on specific research topics we find urgent to address and further explore together. As an outcome of “The School of Infinite Rehearsals 2020-21”, the four-volume publication assembles the ideas and inquiries that emerged as part of the collective research. Each book is collectively authored by the respective participants of Movements I-IV, including commissioned texts and artworks by other contributors. Four different Athenian creative studios were invited to design each book.Onassis AiR is an (inter)national artistic research residency program established by the Onassis Foundation in 2019. Located in the center of Athens, the program grounds its mission in supporting artistic process, towards a less product-obsessed arts ecosystem.

Structured as a series of prompts and responses, “While We're Together” conveys one group's practices of gathering amidst cascading failures around the globe. The book offers potential forms of remedy and repair through building collaborative relations between each other and with more-than-human worlds. These practices include evolving into cephalopods, listening to plants, foraging a meal, searching for centaurs, shapeshifting into monsters, and finally, sealing our rewilded relations with a spell.