Forest Assembly of Educational Fictions

Empty concert hall after the the assembly

scores, physical exercises, games, harvesting and planting, discotheques, meals, walks, reenactments, hacks, listening, doing nothing, something that is not yet named – suggested by all

as Work Hard! Play Hard! working group: together with Olia Sosnovskaya and Aleksei Borisionok

“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.

Dan Nulty and Lo Moran suggest sound-walk through the Nigula Bog
Time in between
Fallow time on the sea side
Anna Xyana, Lo Moran, Joshua Jenkins and Katsiaryna Firaho suggest karaoke with sad and emo songs
Anna Xyana, Lo Moran, Joshua Jenkins and Katsiaryna Firaho suggest karaoke with sad and emo songs

In frame of the assembly we as eeefff have also organised a 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:

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
Night time
Iryna Loskot & Oleksii Minko suggest a subversed “Line-up on the Day of Knowledge”
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)”
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.

The Assembly had no fixed program. The days were structured with synchronic and asynchronic exercises proposed by the Forest Assembly of Educational Fictions working group. Various activities and practices were suggested by participants on site and mediated through the magnetic board.

Traces of the exercise: “Set alarms of a person next to you with a memo, indicating what to do at the time when the alarm rings”
Alisa Oleva suggests texture walking exercises
Olya Zovskaya suggests sharing herbal tea and stories of foraging in the context of dispossession and displacement from Artsakh
Olya Zovskaya suggests sharing herbal tea and stories of foraging in the context of dispossession and displacement from Artsakh
Ida Hordiichuk and Natálie Zehnalová suggest watching cartoons produced in Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, and Estonia under Soviet occupation
Ester Bergsmark suggests screening her film (Forest Assembly of Educational Fictions edit) in the basement, on bodies, gender, trans experiences, desire, violence, and trauma

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Here you can find exercises and pictures from activities happend during the assembly:
https://workhardplay.pw/en/2025/
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Dances in the concert hall of the former school