Dara Molloy conversation with foundation fellows, Isabelle Cedotti and Neto Leão.
Dara Molloy speaks to the foundation fellows, Isabelle Cedotti and Neto Leão.
Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich was a philosopher and social critic whose work challenged the conventional views of education, healthcare, and modern society. His ideas continue to resonate in contemporary discussions about the role of institutions in our lives.
Dara Molloy speaks to the foundation fellows, Isabelle Cedotti and Neto Leão.
Our Foundation Fellows
Foundation fellow Isabelle Cedotti is a visual artist. Her artwork emerges from the encounter with the other to find expression in drawings, paintings, writings, and dancing. Since 2018, she has been dedicated to the Gaze Project, a pilgrimage in search of friends and collaborators of Ivan Illich centered around friendship and hospitality. Conversations, videos, paintings, drawings, and initiatives have emerged from these meetings. She co-founded, alongside Sajay Samuel, Samar Farage and Neto Leão, the Thinking After Ivan Illich Project. She curates the artistic project that composes Conspiratio, a periodical for research by people.
Neto Leão, also a foundation fellow, is a pilgrim, researcher, filmmaker, and writer. Most of his stories, films, photographs, and journeys are cultivated through friendship and are sprouted from his search for vernacular living. His gaze has been guided by the artist Isabelle Cedotti, who he has the privilege to accompany. He has also been translating and publishing Illich's work in Portuguese. As a researcher, his areas of interest include political ecology, environmental sociology, spiritual ecologies, and the radical critique of industrialisation. He is a co-founder of the Thinking After Ivan Illich Project and of Conspiratio, a periodical for research by people.
Dara Molloy lives on the Aran Islands, off Galway, in Ireland. He went there as a hermit in1985. Dara has been on a conscious spiritual path since he was 12 years old. It took him into the Catholic priesthood and then to being an independent, freelance Celtic priest, monk and druid. Dara’s work is steeped in the Celtic spiritual tradition, both pagan and Christian. Part of his life's mission is to revive interest in this tradition and find ways to apply it to our lives today.
Conversations
Giaozzo Pucci speaks to the foundation fellows, Isabelle Cedotti and Neto Leão.
Publisher, writer, politician, ecologist, translator, activist, animal rights activist, creator and organizer of events, longtime friend of some of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century, Giannozzo Pucci is one of the most important figures of Italian environmentalism.
Marianne Gronemeyer speaks to the foundation fellows, Isabelle Cedotti and Neto Leão.
Marianne Gronemeyer worked for eight years as a teacher at a secondary school. After completing a second degree in social sciences at the Universities of Hamburg, Mainz and Bochum, she received her doctorate in Hamburg in 1976 on the subject of motivation and political action. From 1987 to 2006 she was a professor of educational science at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences. She is married to the theologian and sociologist Reimer Gronemeyer.
Dara Molloy speaks to the foundation fellows, Isabelle Cedotti and Neto Leão.
Dara Molloy lives on the Aran Islands, off Galway, in Ireland. He went there as a hermit in1985. Dara has been on a conscious spiritual path since he was 12 years old. It took him into the Catholic priesthood and then to being an independent, freelance Celtic priest, monk and druid. Dara’s work is steeped in the Celtic spiritual tradition, both pagan and Christian. Part of his life's mission is to revive interest in this tradition and find ways to apply it to our lives today.
Barbara Duden speaks to the foundation fellows, Isabelle Cedotti and Neto Leão.
Barbara Duden is a German medical historian, scholar of gender studies, and emeritus professor of the University of Hannover. Her scholarship figures significantly in the currents that established the body as a site for historical inquiry. She is one of the founders of the journal Courage, which was in publication from 1976 to 1984.
Ludolf Kuchenbuch speaks to the foundation fellows, Isabelle Cedotti and Neto Leão.
Ludolf Kuchenbuch is a German historian and jazz musician.He was Professor of Ancient History at the Fernuniversität Hagen and later was curator at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich.
Christophe Kotanyi speaks to the foundation fellows, Isabelle Cedotti and Neto Leão.
Christophe Kotanyi is a writer and consultant. He is the author of A Hundred Drifts.