Throne

Responses (body / blood / skin/ space)

Creating an atmosphere

Wanderings and weavings, back and forth, building relations,

Initiate, provoke, invite, conjur, incantations

Contact with diverse bodies: messy, requires commitment and submission, a willingness not to know, to slow down, to be receptive, responsive

Akomolafe, B : mix indigenous cosmologies with quantum field theory. Poetical and scientific. Disruptive. Brokenness / woundedness – soft furtile notion of brokenness – entangled and relational – never encapsulated as a separate whole. cracks open new spaces – emergent spaces – Ishu (YorubaTrickster / thunder and lightening being) crack between spaces, doesn not fit into a box (43’)

‘original sin’ – deception over a long long period of time.

Denah people come from ‘original beauty’ – harmony, vitality, agency, wholeness and functionality inherent harmony.

Earth: fearless generosity and radical abandon.

(Pat Macabe and Baya Akomolafe, Trickster, monster, other YouTube)

Wall Kimmerer, R: sacred connection, way of observation, respectful, giving honour to

World as sacred text

Listen, see, pay attention to living world

What is the nature of ceremony? – an intentional ‘bringing ourselves into relationship with…’ listening and hearing

Indigenous resistance = ceremony

It looks like (they)(we) are trying to remember what it would be like to love the world’

Humbling

We are approaching the time of reckoning

Creatures that have a much more integrated and continuous existence than we do

‘in control and on top of everything – immortality project’

Deep well of grief – same place that holds joy – we’re afraid of deep feeling

World as most profound sense of belonging

Animating forces

Bewilderment: returning to a wild state of being

We are loved back – conversation with phenomenon