Dr. Cell (they/them)

Our name is Cell. We are the smallest unit that can live on their own and that makes up all living organisms and the tissues of the body. We are present in the complicated xenorhizomatic web of non-linear time-space constellations. We are here and yet gone somewhere else. We arrive and dissolve and re-appear in circular motion of feedback loop raising the question if we were even really gone. We play with visibility, sensibility, “attentionality”. We are other and always multiple. The ones always fluid. The ones always in motion. The ones worlding. The question about how we can deal with all these divergent stimuli occurs. There is this possibility to outsource them to various times while making connections between them. The intersections within linearities of our contemporaneity are present - they are many and happen at the same time in different tenses.

So we navigate ourselves by chance (a dice), we have the ability to embody different beings, become them, understand them, move with their bodies, mimic their curiosities, expressions, hear their thoughts. Learn with them and after a while leave them be.

TIME

Linearly constructed actor by which we orient. They could be de/re-constructed in favour for the non-linear narrative and understanding of time. Layered circular times is the approach in which I think about and with the world.

SPACE

Seemingly individual sites in various geographical locations. They are active in interconnected webs of global meaning-making. Never alone, always in co-dependency. They are connected through “glocals” (global actors who are “otherly local”). Example of a glocal is a body of water – let’s say a river, the body of air - let’s say a breeze, the body of ground - let’s say soil and their kins. What is happening with them and to them as well as what they are doing/performing is how they become from global to local /It matters what stories tell stories, what knots knot knots, and so on/ They  are inherently present and represent: the state of climate at the given location, the state of awareness, the over-all mood.

(RE)ROOTING PRACTICE

This practice is an oval-shaped diagonal - concerned with neither being horizontal nor vertical, but on the verge of ever - always little bit differently - repeating (un)becoming together with the wounded Earth. Fail - fail again - fail better. Reroot to your urgency and try otherwise.

SHIFTING PERCEPTION(S)

I am interested in the liminal, in the in between space – transitional space- which allows for the change in percieving the environment to happen. How does the bee sound? How does the river flow? What does the strong wind bring? 

REFLECTIONS (Celestína Dr.Cell about M.O.L.E.)

During the development of M.O.L.E. Laboratories I gained a better understanding of what interests me, what informs my practice as well as what intimidates me and how to possibly further work with these sensations. I found out that I learn a lot from my day to day being in various time(s) and space(s) - simultaneously - my understanding and definitions of time and space expands. I am interested in the risky participation and nuances between working together (learning collectively and together) and tearing apart (understanding individually). 

My deep curiosity, which somehow narrows down and at the same time opens and grow further underground, in my research question How can we re-articulate the environment to be able to (under)stand it and (under)stand with it? lays in (re)rooting practice and shifting perception(s).

I am curious about various wayf of "SF" storytelling as a tool for resistance, recuperation and imagining possible ways of living and dying with. 

Remembering personal/individual stories and staying with them. Further on from these starting the process of shift(ing)s and slowly dive deep into cocllective storyingp about possible pasts-presents-futures of us and them who surround us.

I am curious about layered narratives and layered spaces. How can we re-articulate them for our own understanding to be able to stand with them - stay with the trouble of climate emergency? Is it possible to re-shape climate grief into climate joy?

I am curious about creating objects which triggers spatial fascination and other possibilities on how to relate to space/environments – through gathering  a (non-tangible) fragment (example: sounds) of glocals (example: a bee) – dis/re-locating them and build new relations through various strategies of engagement (moving: listening, touching…)

How does being present, embodiment and movement habilitate the shift in (under)standing the environment?

These transitional/liminal spaces which may hold the possibility for shifting perspectives are many. I think of memory – personal reminiscence, automatic writing, various kinds of present movement, embodiment, cancelling some senses, as of some of them. This space is physical as well as mental. It is the physical location as well as the image of it or the experience of it. Onboarding and offboarding are both very much liminal spaces. They guide one to as well as from an experience. These are the spaces which hold the possibility for the shift to happen. We can also stay with them and explore them further individually and after a workshop/LARP/spatial-temporal experience takes place. I am interested in staying with these sensations, experiment with them and explore further the transitional - the ephemeral - shift(ing)s.

How I understand the environment who I am talking about?

The what I am practicing is not site-specific – it is location (in)dependant. (In)dependant in a way, that you relate to a certain location, however this location could be changed many times since you visited them. You do not need to be present there physically; it is enough if you are present mentally. Sometimes even when our body is physically positioned somewhere, we could be still mentally dislocated. It is about the (emotional, physical, mental) relationing and positioning - the yearning to relate and see each other reflections in the other.

I YEARN TO...

...build a group storytelling – from shifted perspective – about possible pasts-presents-futures

...follow embodied movement

..."listen"

...try to wake up the child-like curiousness – drive to explore through various senses, question (critically as well as banally – do not be afraid to ask seemingly banal questions)

...not be afraid to fail – stay in learning – learning through sharing

...arrive from personal to objective – from person-specific to site-specific (through individual memory of experience to collective shared present experience)