Slowness – Cultivating arts, crops and inner gardens

The Prologue

Slowness has been quietly unfolding since the creation in 2016 of La Granja Ibiza. The transformation of a dormant agricultural plot into a working farmstead devoted to discourse around food set the stage for a new kind of hospitality concept. We began to assemble a community of designers, farmers, writers, artists, artisans and architects whose work engages with slowness toward a resetting of values.

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CALENDAR

Flussbad launches in September 2023 with a diverse artistic program at the Reethaus. Mesmeric, intimate and experimental, performances at the Reethaus reach out of everyday reality and into an elevated, contemplative plane.

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24.09.2023

Soundwalk Collective All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Live Score
14.10.2023

La Monte Young 24-Hour Sound Installation
08.10.2023

Pan Daijing Live
17.10.2023

Jana Winderen Live
29.10.2023

Lyra Pramuk Live

The Journal

Meditations on slowness through photography, film, art and original reportage.

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INTERVIEW

Arias for a New World

The Expansive Performance Art of MJ Harper

In the lead-up to the opening of the Reethaus in Berlin, we spoke to MJ Harper, the Jamaica-born, Florida-raised multimedia artist, dancer and creative director whose protean artistic vision is helping to shape the launch of our subterranean performance space this September at Flussbad.

PLACES

Drawing on the insights of the slow movement, adaptive reuse, and regenerative agriculture, we build and nourish locally rooted places that offer a deeper, more conscious form of hospitality. Our places offer not a “pit stop” away from the hectic pace of daily life but a continuous journey of reconnection, of learning to live in harmony with nature, our community and ourselves.

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Milan Kundera “Consider this utterly commonplace situation: a man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down. Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close to him in time. In existential mathematics, that experience takes the form of two basic equations: the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.”

To be slow is not merely to decrease the pace of life. It’s about taking the time to reconsider our actions and think more deeply and responsibly about how we live. We want to nourish ourselves on what Thoreau called “the tonic of wildness” and live evermore in the moment so that we can inhabit an existence that is “more elastic, more starry, more immortal.” Or in the words of Rachel Carson, the mother of the green movement: “One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, ‘What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?’”

Essential

Statistics and Tracking

An intention, a wish, a recourse, Slowness is a collective of people, places and projects that reframe the way we live and interact.

The Prologue

CALENDAR

The Journal

The Expansive Performance Art of MJ Harper

La Monte Young and the New York Hypnotic School

Dance of the Uckermark

The Scent Rituals of Ryoko Hori

Pilgrimage As Practice in the Photography of Alys Tomlinson

PLACES

Arnesse

Flussbad

Tulum Treehouse

Casa Noble

Herdade do Meco

Sofi