April 22 and 23, 2026
Landing Zones (Unruly Ecologies: Art, Attention, Neurodiversity) is a research project that responds to the need to create accessibility conditions that are open to neurodiversity within cultural spaces. The project focuses on the construction of Temporary Landing Zones (TLZs): spaces for rest, napping, and slowing down. TLZs are architectural insertions—places where one can stay, come and go, sleep, or do nothing for a certain period of time.
In addition to the TLZs, the project works on the creation and translation of key textual resources at the intersection of environmental and neurodiversity studies, and provides a theoretical framework for the need to reclaim “rest as resistance.”
Led by the ESAA in 2025–2026, the project is activated by a European consortium: the École supérieure d’art d’Avignon; Umjetnički Paviljon Zagreb, a contemporary art center in the Croatian capital; Aarhus University in Denmark; and the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon.
Programme:
Wednesday, April 22 – Thursday, April 23, 2:30–5:30 PM
Title: Temporary Landing Zone (Studiolo)
A space for rest, napping, and slowing down, proposed by participants in a workshop as part of the Temporary Landing Zones project. An architectural intervention—spaces where one can stay, come and go, sleep, or do nothing for a certain period of time.
Thursday, April 23, 7:00–8:30 PM
Title: Temporary Landing Zones
Description:
A program of short films presented as part of the Temporary Landing Zones project, which responds to the need to create accessibility conditions open to neurodiversity in cultural spaces. Followed by a conversation in English with Coby-Rae Crosbie and Meije Nicolas-Chavance.
– Resting Place, Brittney Appleby (3 minutes)
– Rio, Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar Romero (6 minutes)
– it was cold, and i was sleeping, Juliet Johnson (8 minutes)
– A Brief History of Circles, Georgia Kumari Bradburn (11 minutes)
French and English subtitles (SDH) with audio description
Live transcription of the images will also be available in English and French. Please contact ross.louis@esaavignon.fr in advance so that we can arrange for someone to assist you.
Access information:
Venue: Auditorium
The museum is accessible and equipped for people with reduced mobility: entry via the left-hand door (please ask at reception), with ramps and elevators available. Guide dogs and assistance dogs are welcome.
More information at https://linktr.ee/TemporaryLandingZones”
Artists :
Brittney Appleby (she/they) is a queer interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker with a primary focus in experimental analogue film and photo techniques. She currently resides on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam First Nations, otherwise known as Vancouver, Canada http://www.instagram.com/brittneyappleby
Coby-Rae Crosbie is an artist and researcher based in London (UK). They are interested in the power dynamics of knowledge, and their practice manifests in lecture performance, readings groups, video, and installation. http://www.cobyrae.com
Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar Romero https://www.gonzagagomezcortazar.com/
Juliet Johnson is a body of water from Long Beach, California https://julietjohnson.art/
Georgia Kumari Bradburn https://www.georgiakumaribradburn.com/
Meije Nicolas-Chavance is an artist and curator based in Avignon, France. Her work focuses performance, textile-based mediums and storytelling to address ecofeminism, disability and care.