Choreokratic Ecologies - An Archive of the Murmurations Project

Carlos Eduardo de Carvalho Mello

About this exposition

This exposition is an archival gesture emerging from the Dramaturgical Ecologies research-creation collective. Rooted in the entwined inquiries of Blacknesses and Dramaturgy, it gathers the dialogues, encounters and an artistic residency that unfolded through the SSHRC-funded Murmurations project. Between the viscous resonance of okra and the shifting flight of murmuring birds, this exposition shares choreokratic ecologies - a garden of study where movement, thought, and relation co-compose. Here, Blackness becomes a method, a lens, a refrain, challenging the neutrality of the performer-dancer body and inviting modes of collective creation that are relational, porous, and opaque. Murmurations attends to what forms in the formless - like a swarm of birds: a living archive of bodies, voices, and ecologies composing a landscape.

type	research exposition
keywords	blackness, dance dramaturgy, research creation, Embodied knowledge
date	09/10/2025
published	20/01/2026
last modified	20/01/2026
status	published
copyright	Choreokratic Ecologies
license	CC BY-NC-ND
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3925372/3927274
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.3925372
published in	Research Catalogue

name	Bayo at Ground Provisions - Birds.mp3
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name	Bird flock inverted
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name	Okra bird murmuration.png
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name	The lens of Blackness.mp3
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name	okra pair.png
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name	Okra stirr2.mp4
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name	okra bird wave
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name	Okra flower2.jpg
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name	Okra bowl.png
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name	Okra bird murmuration1
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name	Okras chopped2
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name	ABCs okra background
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name	ABC's of DE Poster Event 1.pdf
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name	ABC's of DE Poster Event 2.pdf
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name	ABC's of DE Poster Event 3.pdf
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name	ABC's of DE Poster Event 4.pdf
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name	Event 4 - ABCs with Dana and Naila
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name	Murmuration
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name	Ange - Blackness as Container.mp3
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name	The conference of birds
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name	Plot and Plantation read by Angelique
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name	Plot Plant
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name	Waters waters
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name	Willkie's experience in Jamaica
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name	Waters walks and okras
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name	Gumbo Prep
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name	Gumbo Prep 2
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name	Okra stirr
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name	feet
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name	gathering
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name	bus image
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name	gathering2
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name	mirroring skies
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name	Ground Provisions
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name	Ground Provisions - Reading Nahum Chandler's text
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name	Cabin Comp
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name	Meals
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name	Okra seedlings
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name	Day 2
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name	snow okra
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