Terrania
(2023)
author(s): Nat Grant, Nicky Stott
published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
Terrania is a gothic eco-drama podcast project exploring gender-queer and disability themes in the face of climate catastrophe. This project draws on contemporary environmental realities to explore how (dis)abled, genderqueer bodies might be reimagined in dystopian and utopian futurity narratives.
Poner el cuerpo – Making spaces public
(2023)
author(s): Rossanaconda
published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
In this exposition, I expand the notions and practices of collective body-action intervention (dance, performance, happenings, etc.) as a method to strengthen embodied knowledge, an instigation to engage in restorative encounters, and an invitation to intervene and disrupt political biases of (public) spaces. These methodologies propose alternatives for knowledge exchange/production beyond hegemonic, Eurocentric education.
In parallel, I reflect on my own practice and the anti-patriarchal and decolonial feminist political basis of the collectives of which I am part. We work with strategies and methodologies inspired by feminisms from the Global South, such as taking care of others as a practice that puts aside the patriarchal capitalist model of life that mainly separates, individualizes, prioritizes, and promotes competition and exploitation. We promote exchange, cooperation, and interdependence. I reflect on how these encounters summon the festive memory of our territories and the resilience of our* wounds.
Emotions of the bodies and the resistances will trigger our rituals in Abya Yala**, the flows and drifts will make this poetic-affective encounter, as will the skin itself.
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*We: Here I refer to collectivity in a broad sense in each case: We as the collectives I am part of, we as women (cis, trans, nonbinary), we as immigrants, we as bipoc, etc
**Abya Yala: Self-determined name for the territories in the global south named "America" as a result of the colonizing process.
Matters of collectivity through embodied practices
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Marisa Godoy, Eirini Sourgiadaki
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This exposition is a shared space for output try-outs, reflections, documentation, conversations, references, intriguing things, and what one is learning. The environment where this material grew was the MA Transdisciplinarity Studies in the Arts at ZHdK during the project week and lab 'Matters of Collectivity through embodied practices' in the autumn term 2023/2024.
Terrania [submitted to RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research - 2023-03-15 23:09]
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Nat Grant, Nicky Stott
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Terrania is a gothic eco-drama podcast project exploring gender-queer and disability themes in the face of climate catastrophe. This project draws on contemporary environmental realities to explore how (dis)abled, genderqueer bodies might be reimagined in dystopian and utopian futurity narratives.
