Fernando García-Dory explores rural zones as laboratories for alternative and sustainable social, economic and artistic models. He takes the role of a field researcher creating an inventory of collective and artistic projects in rural France, sometimes invisible to the established art system. Starting from the premise of the vital importance of these experimental incubators for the renewal of an exhausted art system, García-Dory points to how they need to be both camouflaged and yet identifiable. After visiting and spending time in the locations, the artist presents a portion of the Confederacy of Villages Research Archive, a series of fold-out maps based on an ancient system of Korean geomancy divination used to identify favourable terrains for settlements, on fantasy games and on pre-modern royal cartographies created for taxation purposes. A card game allows the public consulting the maps to simulate participation in the exhibited projects in order to directly understand their challenges and potential. During the exhibition, the archive will be activated through talks and gatherings of representatives of the mapped initiatives, and with the founding sites of the Confederacy of Villages.

On 31 October, Fernando García-Dory discusses his work in the Cosmopolis discursive space. On 2 November, he will participate in a round table discussion on the Confederacy of Villages project.