Por Dino Siwek A dor do mundo dança em mim a dor me é dada matéria etérea ancestral sussurro presente de gerações passadas A dor do mundo em mim escolhe se fala ou cala mas é luxúria guardá-la se por todo lado a ferida reabre a cada segundoA dor do mundo é também da terra …
1. Po-ethic inquiry: layering existence THERE IS ME (inhabiting a heart-beating body limited by temporality) THERE IS ME AND YOU (relating through a historically scripted social body) THERE IS ME IN YOU (worlded and composting within a wider earthly body)... …and THERE IS NEITHER ME NOR YOU (in nothingness/every-thingness beyond time, space and form) 2. …
1. Po-ethic inquiry: dis-immunizations Embracing Thorns Acknowledge the constructs in which I find myself in. Tune in to a wider metabolism. Accept our shared ability to both hurt and heal. Open my body to embrace the thorns, and the softness beneath them. Welcome the contradictions, paradoxes, pains and pleasures of this process. Find strength in …
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1. Po-ethic inquiry: a constantly overflowing cesspit my shit - your shit - their shit - whose shit - old shit - new shit - i shit - you shit - they shit - we shit - our shit ... 2. Stretching spaces What happens when we don't deal with our shit? What if we …
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On the fantasy-shelf of diversity, a collection of DOLLS on display. Each doll with a TRY ME button: press it and she will say exactly what you always wanted to hear. Buy one, get one free... They will forever be thankful to you! ALREADY SOLD OUT: Room ornament: “I will keep myself small so that …
What do we need to lo(o)se(n), in order to experience… ethics with/out the modern subject? politics with/out the nation-state? education with/out the Enlightenment? welfare with/out capitalism… or socialism? imagination with/out the intellect? solidarity with/out heroism? democracy with/out consensus or a single story of progress and reason? humanity with/out good versus evil? criticality with/out dialectics and essentialism? theology …
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RADICAL TENDERNESS is practicing attunement It is listening to collective unuttered wisdom, nurturing intrinsic, rather than productive value It is engaging with each other beyond desires for consensus, coherence and control It is dancing beyond the loop of identification and disidentification It is letting go of possessions, of posessiveness It is feeling part of a …
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The text below emerged from the experiences of many bodies who have been systemically impacted by the violences of colonialism. It took the current form through a collaboration between Elwood Jimmy and Vanessa Andreotti on the difficulties of decolonization. As a living text, it calls us to welcome a thunderstorm ancestor coming with heavy rain, …
There is an ancient prophecy shared by people of the color of the earth in different corners of a ripe land that eagle and condor will soar together in the same sky again after five hundred years of separation The blue and starry vault will rejoice with this encounter And clouds will tear up …
