Danish artist Stine Marie Jacobsen has been invited to develop a long-term project with schools in Marseille. The project entitled GROUP-THINK evolved after meeting with teachers, students and professionals of formal and non-formal education in Marseille. These conversations inspired the artist to explore the potential of citizenship education in a moment of multiple students’ mobilisations in Marseille and the world. Looking at the tools the national education system provides younger citizens to face individual, social and environmental complexities, Jacobsen shaped an innovative sports and civic education programme that aims at introducing pupils to practices of solidarity, care, civic consciousness and collective intelligence skills through a series of conceptual and physical exercises. These exercises were developed by the artist in collaboration with the French contemporary circus Archaos and tested by students in several schools of Marseille.

The project results in a film that is screened in a cabin on the rooftop of Coco Velten and in a handbook that is distributed to local schools and is for sale online and in Espace Manifesta.  More information here

Coco Velten
16 rue Bernard du Bois, Belsunce – Marseille
Tuesday to Saturday, 11.00 to 19.00
Venue is not accessible to visitors with disabilities.

FREE ENTRY

+ GROUP THINK – TRAILER
+ STINE MARIE JACOBSEN’S INTERVIEW
+ PODCAST BEING PART OF MANIFESTA WITH THE ARTIST

Partner schools: Lycée Périer; Collège Louis Armand; Collège Vieux Port; Collège Elsa Triolet; Collège Stéphane Mallarmé; Ecole Elémentaire Maurice Korsec; Ecole Elémentaire Rose Garde.

Group-Think partners:

With the support of: