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About the workshop

This workshop offers those new to The Hologram practice a chance to learn about the history and reasoning behind it. What is The Hologram? What is it used for? And how can The Hologram be applied in a university context? We will talk about care as revolutionary practice, and based on that discussion we will practice The Hologram. 

The session will be focused on the broad theme of life in the ruins, exploring strategies for practising collective care amidst difficult times. We will apply The Hologram practice to understanding widespread exhaustion, grief, conflict, and difficult feelings on both an interpersonal and societal level.  

The Hologram asks: what would change if we placed collective care at the center of our movements?  

Spaces for this workshop are limited and we recommend booking early to avoid disappointment. We are able to offer a small number of bursaries to cover travel costs within the Midlands. To book a space for the workshop, enquire about a travel bursary, or to discuss any barriers to your attendance, please contact Radar curator Lucy Lopez at l.lopez@lboro.ac.uk with ‘Hologram Workshop’ as the subject line.  

This workshop is part of Radar's programme for 2024-26, Rehearsals (for a world we could live in). The programme explores artistic practices of ‘world-building’ and ‘rehearsal’, which enact or perform more just and liveable worlds. It will commission a series of artists whose work imagines new worlds or ways of living, from more equitable healthcare systems, to climate solidarity networks, to embodied forms of justice. 

Radar is hosting Cassie Thornton in 黑料网 this November as an Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) fellow through the Open Fellowship programme, in connection to the Rehearsals programme.

About The Hologram  

The Hologram is a peer-to-peer protocol practiced from beds and couches around the world. One part social practice, one part technology of revolution, and one part feminist science fiction come to life, The Hologram is a lightweight, replicable, autonomous protocol for human cooperation which produces a rare form of de-institutionalized stability that comes from seeing and being seen, caring and being cared for and supporting while being supported, in the long term. By making this form of viral communal stability, we believe that hologrammers and their communities may be able to use their stability to produce new ways of living that don't rely on or reproduce the toxic systems that are killing us.  

About the artist

Cassie Thornton is an artist, writer and organizer who makes a “safe space” for the unknown, for disobedience, and for unanticipated collectivity. In her recent work she explores the struggle of reorganizing and using privilege in the apocalypse. She uses social practices including institutional critique, insurgent architecture, and “healing modalities” like hypnosis and yoga to find soft spots in the hard surfaces of capitalist life. 

Cassie has invented a grassroots alternative credit reporting service for the survivors of gentrification, has hypnotized hedge fund managers, has finger-painted with the grime found inside banks, has donated cursed paintings to profiteering bankers, and has taught feminist economics to yogis (and vice versa). She is currently a co-organizer of a bar that is an undercover clinic in Berlin. Her 2020 book, The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future, is available from Pluto Press.