beWILDering with
will take place from Dec 29 (new moon) till Jan 13 (full moon) on the unceded lands and waters of the ɬəʔamɛn qaymɩxʷ (Tla’amin) people. I have invited members of the community to come as they are and as/if they are able, curious and willing to be lead astray by magic and mystery.
The project is in the spirit of…
multi-species cooperation and flourishing, we turn (non-dogmatically) toward the Gods and Spirits of this place to remember there is another way of being human
sympoiesis, we create space for collective beingness & creation
Core experiential components:
Embodied Imagination Practice, which involves gentle movement, sound and evoking the creative imagination.
Creating with Earth Materials on an inspired and spontaneous basis.
We will honour the process by enacting a ceremony on the full moon ~ each artifact made, in the spirit of this project, will be offered back to the land, sky and waters.
*bewilder: from be ‘thoroughly’ + wilder ‘lead or go astray’
This project was seeded from the rich compost of the following dream alongside reading “Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene” by Donna Harroway.
I am walking along a pathway made of nutrient rich humus. In front of me the path gets steep and impassable due to its muddy liquidity. I want to climb up this hill but I am aware that I would get stuck or fall back down and must wait for it to dry out a bit. As I'm walking along this dank, dark, composted earth I gasp when I see three snakes and hold my breath as one of the snakes passes through my legs".
“It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.”
Donna Harroway
