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Forest Assembly
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26.09 — 02.10.2025

MASSIA / Massiaru, Estonia

“Forest Assembly of Educational Fictions” is week-long self-oragnised assembly with these vectors: ∰ partisan technologies and fugitive spaces ∰ ecologies-methodologies-divergencies of fictioning ∰ fallow time, foraging, harvesting, agroqueer ∰ schooling, deschooling, echoes of spaces ∰. Assembly happend in Massia in Estonia on 26 Sep — 02 Oct 2025.

Participants: Bilal Alame, Beciu, Ester Bergsmark, Lutzz Bog, Aleksei Borisionok, Caro, Giulia Casalini, DJ Chantarelle, eeefff, Katsiaryna Firaho, Andria Nyberg Forshage, Gleb, Ida Hordiichuk, Nastia Hrychkovska, Marina Israilova, Anna Ivanova, Joshua Jenkins, Lea Kalfus, Urszula Kozak, Anne Kur, Iryna Loskot & Oleksii Minko, Mo, Lo Moran, Dan Nulty, Alisa Oleva, Hanna Paniutsich, Carnelian Seville, Nat Skoczylas, soft fantasy, Olia Sosnovskaya, Kolja Spesivtsev, TTS, Joanna Zabielska, Natálie Zehnalová, Dzina Zhuk, Olya Zovskaya

FRI

SAT

SUN

MON

TUE

WED

THU

FRI

∰ Contribute to the collective diary. Please spread up the notebook secretly, just pass it to the next person when you are done with your contribution.

∰ eeefff suggests to contribute to the collective radio. During days of assembly everyone could intervene into radio with a sound/voice/song/noise/silence. You can listen to the constantly reassembling archive of the radio:

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Schedule of the assembly

SAT

∰ Let’s do a collective fictioning circle. Please formulate in the past tense. What have we done during the assembly?

∰ Break one school rule.

∰ Dan Nulty and Lo Moran suggest sound-walk through the Nigula Bog.

∰ Anna Xyana, Lo, Josh and Kateryna suggest karaoke with sad and emo songs.

During the sound-walk through the Nigula Bog
During the sound-walk through the Nigula Bog
During the sound-walk through the Nigula Bog
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During karaoke with sad and emo songs
During karaoke with sad and emo songs
During karaoke with sad and emo songs
During karaoke with sad and emo songs
During karaoke with sad and emo songs
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SUN

∰ Thin Ice. Coming from our swamping experience, we would like to suggest you one exercise coming from Ursula K Le Guin’s “Steering the Craft”. ““Tell the same story or a new story of the same kind, deliberately shifting POV from character to character several times without any obvious signal to the reader that you’re doing so*. “Thin Ice” calls for a different narrative technique, and possibly a different narrative”. This ice really is thin, and the waters are deep.

∰ Border exercise. Come close to any border — so close that you can touch it with the tip of your nose. How does it smell? (pause) Now what will you do when the border dissolves? Do it.

∰ Gleb suggests an auto-massaging session.

∰ TTS suggests hosting a sound meditation at the seaside.

∰ Andria Nyberg Forshage suggests reading a poem, “an unwritten sea”, from the car trunk.

∰ caro and mo suggest a “ecofetish platonic spanking session feat. forest implements” (inspired by neneh noï) in the night.

During the sound meditation at the seaside
During the sound meditation at the seaside
During the sound meditation at the seaside
During the reading of Andria Nyberg Forshage’s poem
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During the “ecofetish platonic spanking session feat. forest implements” / photo by caro and mo
During the “ecofetish platonic spanking session feat. forest implements” / photo by caro and mo

MON

∰ Set alarms of a person next to you with a memo, indicating what to do at the time when the alarm rings.

∰ Iryna Loskot & Oleksii Minko suggest a subversed “Line-up on the Day of Knowledge”. Instructions: Turn on the audio from the speaker. There are long periods of silence or overly long music in the audio — this is intentional. There are many moments in which people are invited to participate.

∰ Joanna Zabielska suggests trying 3D scanning of textures and environments & building virtual worlds, and Anne Kurr suggests reading zines and testing cyanotype to document the surroundings.

∰ Carnelian Seville suggests hosting No Talent Show at the school concert hall, where Aleksei Borisionok performs Jezioro szczęścia by Bajm; Lo Moran performs stand-up comedy; Nastia Hrychkovska performs pole dance hopak; Olia Sosnovskaya performs pole dance with Белавежская Пушча by Песняры; Gleb performs crab-walk; Kolja Spesivtsev, Nat Skoczylas, Joanna Zabielska, Urszula Kozak, Anna Ivanova, Olya Zovskaya and Dzina Zhuk perform the recipe of the cabbage salad accompanied by the karaoke version of “Берёзовый сок” (ВИА Песняры); Dzina Zhuk and Ida Hordiichuk perform balancing a stick on one’s hand; Mo and Lea perform a sketch on Hungarian-Romanian love/hate relationship; Carnelian Seville, Gleb, Giulia Casalini, Lo Moran, Dan, Olya Zovskaya, Anna Ivanova, Natálie Zehnalová perform Octopus play.

During the “Line-up on the Day of Knowledge”
During the “Line-up on the Day of Knowledge”
During the “Line-up on the Day of Knowledge”
During the 3D scanning of textures and environments & reading zines and testing cyanotype to document the surroundings
During the 3D scanning of textures and environments & reading zines and testing cyanotype to document the surroundings
During the 3D scanning of textures and environments & reading zines and testing cyanotype to document the surroundings
During the 3D scanning of textures and environments & reading zines and testing cyanotype to document the surroundings
During the 3D scanning of textures and environments & reading zines and testing cyanotype to document the surroundings
During the 3D scanning of textures and environments & reading zines and testing cyanotype to document the surroundings
During the 3D scanning of textures and environments & reading zines and testing cyanotype to document the surroundings
During “No Talent Show”
During “No Talent Show”
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TUE

∰ Join a person you spoke the least to. Take them on a walk through the building and show a place that reminds you of another place somewhere else. Change.

∰ Forgotten Exercise: Take someone for a walk in a forest which is special to you. You will be walking through a forest around Massia, but you will guide a person through it as if you were in that special forest somewhere else.

∰ Alisa Oleva suggests texture walking exercises.

∰ Alisa Oleva suggests a night walk with ghosts.

∰ Nastia Hrychkovska suggests a touch tour and zine reading on the shores of Azov sea.

∰ Ester Bergsmark and Andria Nyberg Forshage suggest a reading on transintimacies, violence, play, and domesticity in their room. Their collaborative text is titled “nooks (I am hiding behind you or are you becoming visible through me)”

∰ Ida Hordiichuk and Natálie Zehnalová suggest watching cartoons produced in Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, and Estonia under Soviet occupation.

During the touch tour and zine reading on the shores of Azov sea
During the touch tour and zine reading on the shores of Azov sea
During the touch tour and zine reading on the shores of Azov sea
During the touch tour and zine reading on the shores of Azov sea
During the touch tour and zine reading on the shores of Azov sea
During the touch tour and zine reading on the shores of Azov sea
During the touch tour and zine reading on the shores of Azov sea
During texture walking exercises
During texture walking exercises
During texture walking exercises
During texture walking exercises
During texture walking exercises
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During the reading suggested by Ester Bergsmark and Andria Nyberg Forshage
During the reading suggested by Ester Bergsmark and Andria Nyberg Forshage
During the reading suggested by Ester Bergsmark and Andria Nyberg Forshage
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Watching cartoons produced in Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, and Estonia under Soviet occupation
Watching cartoons produced in Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, and Estonia under Soviet occupation
Watching cartoons produced in Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, and Estonia under Soviet occupation
Schedule of the assembly

WED

∰ Collective fictioning circle. Imagine it is our first day here. Share with everyone — in future tense — what exercises will we do during the assembly?

∰ Collective Cleaning Performance.

∰ What would you like to take with you, and what would you like to leave here? Share with everyone around the dinner table.

∰ TTS suggests a ritual.

∰ Giulia Casalini and Anna Ivanova suggest micro-field-tripping: a set of listening, movement and writing exercises on more than human interaction.

∰ Olya Zovskaya suggests sharing herbal tea and stories of foraging in the context of dispossession and displacement from Artsakh.

∰ DJ Chantarelle (Aleksei Borisionok) and soft fantasy (Lo Moran) suggest listening to dungeon swampy slimy synth. Mushroom Dungeon Synth Ambient Lounge, with extreme dream tea made from mugwort and dog grass.

∰ Ester Bergsmark suggests screening her film (Forest Assembly of Educational Fictions edit) in the basement, on bodies, gender, trans experiences, desire, violence, and trauma.

During the sharing herbal tea and stories of foraging in the context of dispossession and displacement from Artsakh
During the sharing herbal tea and stories of foraging in the context of dispossession and displacement from Artsakh
During the sharing herbal tea and stories of foraging in the context of dispossession and displacement from Artsakh
During the sharing herbal tea and stories of foraging in the context of dispossession and displacement from Artsakh
During the sharing herbal tea and stories of foraging in the context of dispossession and displacement from Artsakh
During micro-field-tripping: a set of listening, movement and writing exercises on more than human interaction
During micro-field-tripping: a set of listening, movement and writing exercises on more than human interaction
During the ritual suggested by TTS
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During the screening of Ester Bergsmark’s film
During the screening of Ester Bergsmark’s film
During DJ Chantarelle’s (Aleksei Borisionok) and soft fantasy’s (Lo Moran) listening session
During DJ Chantarelle’s (Aleksei Borisionok) and soft fantasy’s (Lo Moran) listening session
During DJ Chantarelle’s (Aleksei Borisionok) and soft fantasy’s (Lo Moran) listening session

THU

∰ Collective Cleaning Performance.

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Working group:

🍏Aleksei Borisionok curates series of exhibitions and events, connected to the issues of the post-socialism, strikes and infrastructures, he also writes about arts and politics for miscellaneous journals and books.

🥦eeefff (Kolja Spesivtsev and Dzina Zhuk) works with emotional effects of the new economic regimes driven by computation, materiality of sensibility, affects within creative industries, frictions between user interfaces and protocols, test settings for collective imaginaries.

🥬Olia Sosnovskaya works with text, performative and visual practices between the festive and the political, intertwining collective choreographies, movement scores and (post-)revolutionary temporalities.