Collective experiences
Here you can travel between different collective projects, from workshops to "(co)habiting spaces" where conviviality is the core for knowledge exchange and collaborative creation. Each project follows a situated methodology and research applied to diverse frames including: international artistic projects, training courses, series of workshops, walking performative activities, among others.
This work is tangled with Seila's ongoing artistic research as independent researcher however affiliated to a number of universities contributing to academic research with publications and other collaborations. To know more about it click on the link ACADEMIC RESEARCH
Here you can find a selection. learn more about a specific project, simply click on its title and image.
This work is tangled with Seila's ongoing artistic research as independent researcher however affiliated to a number of universities contributing to academic research with publications and other collaborations. To know more about it click on the link ACADEMIC RESEARCH
Here you can find a selection. learn more about a specific project, simply click on its title and image.
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"Tangled Ecologies, Fragile Futures"
June 2025. at the Uzh River, Uzhhorod (Ukraine) An artistic contribution for RUTA conference 2025: "Imagination: New Visions and Connections" organised by RUTA Association, international research group focusing on Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies. Curator: Maya Hayda |
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"Dnipro River: Ecosocial Belonging in Wartime" (2025) is a collective artistic space initiated by Seila Fernández Arconada. Focusing on poetic-political encounters with the Dnipro River, this project aims to generate connections beyond human to explore ecosocial uncertainties in times of russian full scale invasion of Ukraine. More information in the link.
(Kyiv, Ukraine. Supported by Culture Moves Europe Mobility Grant at the first stage) |
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Mentor at Art Therapy Force in the project "Kids Art Retreat".
April 2025, Ukraine A series of situated artistic methods as shared multisensorial activities. The core was to weave bonds as forms of (re)connecting to “natural (Nature) belonging” with especial attention to water bodies on us and around us. This art therapy method has its pilars on the intersections between ecology, decolonial perspectives and trauma informed practices. Activities took place outdoors integrating walking, sensing and experimenting from individual to collaborative multidisciplinary spaces including drawing, sound and performance. More information Supported by Vidnova Placement |
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International coordinator, Artist trainer, curator and project content designer of "Post Truth? Countering Disinformation Narratives", series of artistic collaborative residencies- transdisciplinary training spaces in Ukraine, Poland, France and Germany.
This project took place in 2024, organised by Lernlabor and local partner organisations. |
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Artist trainer creator of the project "Harvesting Hope: Artistic Alchemy and Collective Care for Eco-Social Renewal" March 15th to 24th, 2024 in Lutter am Barrengerge (Germany). Organised by Lernlabor.
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Artist trainer and facilitator of the curated collective transdisciplinary space “Seeds in the Snow: Winter Artistic Collaborations for a Shared Future” 18th to 24th of January 2024, Nigüelas (Granada, Spain). Project organised by Lernlabor.
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Artist facilitator of the study visit in the project INTER(RELATION) PATH. This visit took place in Berlin and was designed to explore the topic of migration. This project is organised by Creando por Soria (Spain) with partners: Lernlabor(Germany) and Logos (Poland).
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Artist leader and trainer at the collaborative project “Cueva de sombras, plantas de luz”. Collaboration with the 5º grade of the School "Cuevas del Castillo", Vargas (Cantabria, Spain ). May/June 2023. Framed in "Pedagogies of tomorrow organised by Reina Sofia Contemporary Art Museum and Garúa Cooperative.
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FCF is an art research-collaboration that began in 2013 by SFA and BJF in the UK. As it develops we will invite further collaborations nationally and internationally.
Soon more international collaborations will be uploaded. |
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Artist creator and facilitator of the walking artistic series "Sailing Through Liquid Realities" November 2023, Santander (Spain).
This project is in the frame of "De las calles un museo" organised by DidacArt financed by Fundación Santander Creativa. More information soon. |
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Artist trainer and facilitator of the Socially Engaged Art Lab
as part of Viadrinicum Summer School 2023. Viadrina University, (Germany). More information coming up soon. |
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Artist Trainer and creator of the International training course: "Germinating Futures: Collaborative art and care for eco-social (re)balance” 22-03-2023 to 03-04-2023 in Lutter Am Barrengerge (Germany). Project organised by Lernlabor.
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Artist Trainer in the Youth Participation project: “Transcending uncertainties: Art healing for uprooting times” 15th to 20th of February 2023 (Gerswalde, Germany), included in the project Engagement Academy organised by Lernlabor.
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Artist trainer facilitator at the series of transdisciplinary workshops "Drawing (inter) actions collaborative research, Art and Care for ecosocial (re)balance" (May 2022).
A collaboration with the Public Engagement team, the Research Governance team and the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol (UK). |
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Artist-trainer and mural facilitator, creator of the project Co-creating Remedies.Collective Art for a Shared Present .
November 2022, Poznan (Poland) organised by Logos NGO. Remedies are forms of healing, forms of being with each other. Collective gatherings to explore emotions though artistic tools aiming to create an inclusive and peaceful atmosphere. |
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Artist Trainer at the internatioanl training course: "Reforesting minds. Artistic practices for ecological restoration and collective resilience" 18th to 27th of March 2022. Lutter am Barrengerge. (Germany) Project organised by Lernlabor.
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Artist trainer and creator of the project: Punto de Reunión: Procesos Artísticos puntualizando el aquí y ahora
at Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (Mexico), 2019. Info HERE |
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Artist trainer creator of the project "Shifting Perspectives: Merging approaches to art and activism. Experimental Exchange of Experiences" in Ukraine and Germany, 2018. Project organised by EVZ Foundation, Meet up, Logos NGO.
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Artist workshop leader at the project "Натура-Кемп / Natural-CAMP: the act of collective creativity" framed in the festival Role Models Festival, project by Teple Misto curated by METASITU. August 2017, Ivano Frankisvk (Ukraine).
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Workshop creator and facilitator as part of the artistic project
Moving while Doing, Nomadic Artistic Perceptions in Socio-Environmental Transitory Times. Awarded with a Moore Institute Fellowship at the National University of Ireland (Galway, Ireland), this project began in February 2017. |
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Artist leader at BorderArt workshop.
Viadrinicum Borderlab. Borderland experiences: conflict, dialogue and the arts summer school 2017 in Frankfurt Oder (in the border of Germany and Poland). More info about the project created as result: The Oder Island. |
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Artist creator and facilitator of the workshop Re-shape your present, The Act of Collective Creativity (2016)
Project developed during UkraineLab: Community Development and Local Initiatives in (Post) Conflict Societies. Sloviansk (Ukraine). |
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Artist creator, workshop facilitator, curator of the project The land of the Summer People 2014-2016.
A multidisciplinary project collaboration with the Water Engineering Department at the University of Bristol. For more information check The Land of the Summer People website |