We can no longer... deny it run away from it defer responsibility for it sleep our way out of it eat our way out of it drink our way out of it critique our way out of it hug our way out of it meditate our way out of it punch our way out of it think our way out of …
Dani d’Emilia was the first artist to receive a creative fellowship to deepen threading practices in association with the work Towards Braiding supported by the Musagestes Foundation. The theme of the fellowship was “Engaged Dis-identifications” and was developed and carried out in collaboration with Vanessa Andreotti and the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective. "My work …
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Almond-scented bubble bath is a list-poem first written after I co-hosted a month-long international residency in 2017 for more than 60 activists, artists and social innovators in Slovenia. The residency was an invitation for the group to sit with the question: how can we live together differently in face of unprecedented social, economic and ecological …
1. Po-ethic inquiry: the thing thinging Stories are useful and interesting, but they cannot describe a shape-shifting living thing. Hence, we are not the stories we like to tell ourselves. We are not the stories others can tell about us. Our existence cannot be captured by endless chains of concepts. As a human and non-human …
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1. Po-ethic inquiry: the genealogy of lack In "Pedagogies of Crossing" (2005) Jacqui Alexander states that colonialism mutilates our visceral sense of entanglement. This dismemberment of our collective existence generates in its fragmented units “a yearning for wholeness, often expressed as a yearning to belong, a yearning that is both material and existential, both psychic …
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1. Po-ethic inquiry: with/out modernity How can we not turn our back to the multiple forms of violence that keep this system in place? 2. Stretching spaces How do we not lose sight of what we don't want to see? What is it that our doings do in the world? What colonial affective investments could …
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Repairing the irreparable is a concept developed by Fernanda Eugenio as part of her work with the collective AND_Lab. It is a play on words from the portuguese term ‘reparar’, which encompasses various meanings such as re-stopping, re-attending, ie noticing as an inventory/invention practice, as well as repairing. This post is a collection of quotations …
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1. Po-ethic inquiry: rearranging desires uncoercively [an education-to-come as] ‘ an uncoercive rearrangement of desires’ [towards] an ‘ethical imperative to relate to the Other, before will’ - Gayatri Spivak, Righting Wrongs 2004. [the problems of unexamined investments in harmful systems cannot be addressed in education through cognition alone] 2. Stretching spaces How can a pedagogy …
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1. Po-ethic inquiry: Social Ego “(…) you must confront the fact that “whiteness” is a social ego as void of inherent identity as the personal ego, and you have identified with it as much as your very own name, but without being willing to name it.” (Rev. angel Kyodo Williams, in Radical Dharma - Talking …
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1. Po-ethic inquiry: un-fearing fears Five propositions to decolonize the unconscious (A creative adaptation from a larger list written by Suely Rolnik in her book Esferas da Insurreição, 2018) 1. Activate the vital compass: re-‐activate the body as a knowing entity that receives and experiences the world as continuous with itself in its living condition …
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