Improvising With The Other-Than-Human
Improvising With The Other Than Human
is a relational bone structure which nourishes
creative experiments, cultural practice, care & connection.
It infuses the world with inspirational vitality & allows for generative creative collaborations with humans, rivers, images, instruments, sounds, trees, birds & ancestors of both
the human & other-than-human variety.
is a relational bone structure which nourishes
creative experiments, cultural practice, care & connection.
It infuses the world with inspirational vitality & allows for generative creative collaborations with humans, rivers, images, instruments, sounds, trees, birds & ancestors of both
the human & other-than-human variety.
Improvising With The Other Than Human
IWTOTH is visceral noticing of being part of & responsive with the world.
As Bayo Akomolafe & others have been known to utter - we are porous assemblages.
Every 'thing' from the specific land, homes, ecologies we are breathing in & out, through & with, & the objects, beings, animals, trees, crickets which surround us & inhabit us - all - have their own agency.
So too, do our tools, instruments, food, 'thoughts', cultural practices, even the rhythms we play or which play us.
Amongst, within & overlapping these intra-active fields are underlying patterns, rhythms, morphing bone structures - the inner containers.
When we improvise - we are in generative communion with that which is not us and yet is at the core of us.
Everything we create - we can not create alone.
We are intertwined with 'others', people, things, everything in intra-active processes. (See Karen Barad here for elucidation on intra-action)
Who & what is creating what? If we are all porous assemblages how do we identify who is who, what is what and who or what to credit or blame for 'our' creations or the complex processes we are in the middle of?
If you have had a look at this site and it sparks a desire to know more reach out.
IWTOTH is visceral noticing of being part of & responsive with the world.
As Bayo Akomolafe & others have been known to utter - we are porous assemblages.
Every 'thing' from the specific land, homes, ecologies we are breathing in & out, through & with, & the objects, beings, animals, trees, crickets which surround us & inhabit us - all - have their own agency.
So too, do our tools, instruments, food, 'thoughts', cultural practices, even the rhythms we play or which play us.
Amongst, within & overlapping these intra-active fields are underlying patterns, rhythms, morphing bone structures - the inner containers.
When we improvise - we are in generative communion with that which is not us and yet is at the core of us.
Everything we create - we can not create alone.
We are intertwined with 'others', people, things, everything in intra-active processes. (See Karen Barad here for elucidation on intra-action)
Who & what is creating what? If we are all porous assemblages how do we identify who is who, what is what and who or what to credit or blame for 'our' creations or the complex processes we are in the middle of?
If you have had a look at this site and it sparks a desire to know more reach out.