EcoSomatic Protocols of Kinship transformed and merged with A(I)dilatory to explore our

ties with modern technology.

 

A space for critical dialogue, theoretical knowledge exchange, and movement was opened

with the question: Do we even know what is going on? Artists, performers, theater

practitioners, dramaturgs, and researchers gathered to share experiences, struggles, and

ways of working/doing. Navigating performance, labor, rights, financial constraints, and

power/gender dynamics across higher education, alternative, and institutional settings, this

conference created a platform for a different kind of exchange. We engaged not only with our

listening ears but with our whole bodies—lying down, stretching both our minds and bodies,

and practicing knowledge through movement and theory.

In response to the conference’s call for performance works and performative practice-based

research, my contribution took the form of an ongoing reflective process. While we may not

find a definitive answer to what is going on, we can and should continue to walk-with that

question—to remain in a state of inquiry as we navigate the collective socio-ecological

polycrisis on a planetary scale. By engaging with embodied and tacit knowledge—knowledge

of the land—we can explore new ways of understanding.

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Walking with this question, my work EcoSomatic Protocols of Kinship – Bonding with the

(Non)Human invited conference participants on a walk & talk experience, where we

collectively engaged in a process of (un)learning—an attempt to move through and make

sense of … what is going on?

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