Slowing down – ‘getting to know a place’ – returning. To be with.
A responsibility to Awe – ability to respond to awe.
Vibrant vital matter – I / we /am/ are/ matter / a force of nature
Friendship
Devoted: a need to love
Devour: a need to eat
Devouring needy part grounded in devotion
Decentralise
Messy contact
Questioning time. Beginnings and endings – the inbetween.
Collaboration with other-than-human
Ceremonial space – embodied ritual encounter – physical art-making -
Celebrating carnality
Animal / fluid body
Uprightness and fluidity
Strength and sensitivity
Starting point. Where are we starting from? What is our position? Center? Separate? Inclusive? Unknown?
What sustains is the ‘feeler’ – the one that feels – not the feeling/ experience
Mess and contact as subversive act – valuing relationship
Yin space – The Great Nurturer - The Great Comforter - Black Holes -
entangled, enmeshed, entwined, embedded
Empty full space, potentiality of Nothingness
Bring a gift – ‘feed the green’ – active devotion/ care/ coming together – offering back. Ask permission. Respect.
Overcome the ‘scattering’ ‘dithering’– We ‘need to gather and vote’ – meaning make a vow/devote/evoke – focus of attention, collective.
Earth bound.
Urgent call to make kin – what does this mean? Include, relate, reclaim domain of the monstrous – geological bodies speak (Haraway)
Menstrual universe - 'gushing wound' (Akomolafe)
Right to Be, Right to Become, Right to Belong (Thomas Hubl)
‘I feel for a fact’ – Kathryn bond Stockton
Platform / Audience / outcomes
Zoom? Live viewing or recorded
Provoke a performative / ritual
response – Provoke a response - is there time, space, energy to respond - to a call, an invitation, a provocation?
give some documentation / give an invitation – live event can’t happen in the flesh - live streaming? Suggestions, hints, rumours, whispers - of a happening - imagine it - response to it - get a sense of it.
Site – in nature – Dartmoor or coast. Covid regs. Outdoors is the safest place to be with others.
Writing – performative – rituals (livingness) encounters – natural materials – co-creating
Audience – witness - participant
PUBLIC - small intimate. different ideas of public realm. Could it be one-to-one. Could my public be the forest? The drive for more - bigger the public, the better the work?
Timeline / producing plan
Budget / fund raising ideas
Listen to sounds of forests around the world.
The Real Cure for Covid is Renewing Our Fractured Relationship with Nature
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