Thinking out loud

Zanna Markillie
Jan 13, 2021
2 min read

Updated: Jan 18, 2021

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