This exposition traces a practice-based practice concerned with the potential of relationships between different beings and bodies: as matter, as gravitational fields—as encounters with difference and the unfamiliar. These moments of contact are approached not as sites of eradication, but as generative forces: catalysts for transformation, for possibilities, and for ongoing processes of becoming. Conflict and harmony, ethics and justice, involvement, commitment, fantasy, and situatedness coexist here, not in resolution but in tension.
The work draws heavily from new materialism and decolonial theory, attending to the creation of third narratives, and to corporeal and relational ways of knowing. It is a dancing, choreographic, philosophical, functional and dysfunctional practice—one that exists in the present, relies on accident and contingency, as much as on critical theory and the joy of moving, imagining, feeling, and relating.
This is a practice with a dream: to make something in the world. To shift the relation to the other, the unfamiliar, and the unknown. To engage deeply with one’s own situatedness and responsibility, and to stay with the complexity of what becoming-together might mean.
