Transactional (NOT)
This is an experiment in reciprocal relations, mutual aid & a way of feeding the stories, rhythms, dynamics, the other-than-human & each other while collaboratively making wyrd art, telling wyrd stories, speaking in troll tongue & translating whispers or wails from rivers of stone & other such pragmatic anomalies.
What does it cost? What is it worth? What do I get?
Our gatherings, friendships, relationships, connections, conversations, communings are
NOT FOR SALE and will never be paywalled.
We will gather whether you are there or not. We will gather whether you share resources with us or not. We will share no matter how or whether you respond. Every one / thing will share differently & receive differently. Supply & demand between humans, exclusively, has no traction here. We all bring unseen, and yet felt, hordes with us, who may well receive more than we can imagine. This part of the equation is not easily recordible in spreadsheeted transactions.
We are NOT in service to any thing or one or entity. We are definitely NOT in service to your hungry ghosts or any whiff of collective trauma you feel belongs to you in a peculiar identitarian game. We are complexly noticing what we are already intra-tweened with, what we are already in collaboration with what we are already in an improvisational, imperceptible dance with.
We know NOT what we are or the totality of what we are part of or what is to come. We are noticing that much of what we think we know is laced with spuriosity. Time is mushy, invalidating the very question of, what is to come?
We will NOT pretend we can give you anything by our own will; that which we yearn for can not be contained, it / they slip through our fingers, shapeshift, flux, as we catch glimpses of morphing forms in the corner of our eyes, on a moonlit mountainous path. We are in a constant process of almoooost grasping a concept, kenning, knowing or shape of things, as it/they/we catapult through black holes, irrevocably turning it/them/our selves inside out, back to front, spirally out of control, simultaneously densifying, expanding, imploding & exploding. We give attention to the patterns, viscosity & tensions be- tween - knowing that all 'things' are in flux.
Our visceral offerings to the relational web, our trans-local sideways ways, our improvised culture is NOT codifiable, teachible, spreadsheetable or capable of being transmitted in a mind meld.
A plethora of entities with kennings beyond our grasp, swirl between us, concealing themselves in unlikely guises, doorways, places, people, things, ravens, trees, rhythms, stories, melodies, brush strokes & belly buttons. We nod imperceptibly to all the microbes, the imperceptible kin that have brought us here & who allow for the communal, digitally transmitted odour to be sweeeet, somewhat psychedelic & intoxicating.
We will NOT contain, commodify, package or market our deeply felt, relational nourishment with the other than human hordes, each other & our own porous assemblages (aka selves).
We will NOT pretend that we are any more special than you or try to prove our worth by sharing a long list of our supposed individual accomplishments, our artefacts of fitting into the boxes, our acquiescence to the industrial administrative complex & the institutions which attempt to curate us into hierarchies of worth, wisdom & authority.
We will NOT have "The Team / Who are we?" page with photos of how solid, finite, nameable, appealing, happy, healthy & winning we are as a means to encourage you to focus on our separate individual selves, as if they / we are somehow responsible for the strange communal soup we are part of & as if that might rub off on you somehow.
We will NOT offer you ingredients lists or methods for cooking the soup. We? are the soup. The ingredients, the pot, the fire, the wood, the wind et al, play their part & any recipe will fail at documenting the responsiveness needed to be with the complex intra-active relations happening in any moment.
We do NOT recommend becoming like us - improvising with the other than human, as crips, is a batshit crazy endeavour, with gnawing painful pitfalls which are veritably dangerous & regularly bring us to a seriously prostrate, life threatening humbleness.
We do NOT wish this on you. Our way of being-with is not always a desirable destination. It is what happens with pain, discomfort, impairment, sickness - we do NOT suggest you attempt to replicate these experiences, unless it is within the context of ritual replication with well trusted guides, which is not our bag, life itself conspires to orchestrate these processes. If you are already overcome, inexplicably seized by things beyond your kenning, we may be able to accompany you.
We do NOT have the answers.
We will NOT pretend we have figured out the 5 step methodology to your salvation.
We will definitely NOT be encouraging any kind of ascension from any thing, rather a noticing of gravity, a sensing descension in-to the dark, warm, welcoming caves with bear rugs, flickering fires, & inexplicable happenings, a being with & noticing our discomforts, earthy failures, struggles, an opening to multiple bodies, multiple ontologies, multiple co-existant emotions that may well not all be 'ours', a pragmatic realization of the magic of this exquisite existence we find ourselves part of.
We will NOT create a sense making map for you to follow, as if we have a superior vantage point & can see expertly through what is clearly a murky, blurry, peripheral pond that might actually be a stone, or a raven or indeed Odin himself & either way, is specific to your / our particular ecological & cultural landscapes. Life itself is kin with all of the many quintessentially shapeshifting, trickster entities. We notice them as well as the pantheons of entities & stories that bring edges, containers & the attempt to weigh things, that have no form. It is a fools errand to attempt to put anything in a singular, universalising nutshell. The chipmunks will always crack the nuts wide open.
Engaging in these relationships takes time, attention, focus & care. We have been meeting regularly & sharing asynchronously since 2020. Our work/play/ sideways ways are built on conversations, gathering, sharing, listening, caring, not taking things personally, having space to rant, rave, grieve, imagine, be curious, knowing we are swimming in the same cauldron, the same vegetable strewn field, the same carefully noticed imaginarium, pulsing with wyrd correspondences, we allow spillage, the messy stuff, the stuff that hurts, the stuff that bugs us, the weird encounters with the other & the strange. We commit to never sticking violently to kpi’s or agendas, always allowing for that which may seem like an interruption or an obstacle but when we look again, opens an alternative pathway to a sideways ontologically pulsing world.
We invite you to respond to the needs of this messy, entangled, loose collection / congerie of artists through offerings to the work / play / relational web, in whatever ways feel generative.
These gatherings are not transactional.
We are experimenting with acknowledging that gathering is a way for all of us to make offerings to the stories & other than human, to be with, improvise with, offer care / attention / acknowledgment with, each other, the other than human & the ecologies we are part of.
What each of us brings to the relational web will be different & what each takes will be different. Whatever we individually are nourished by is a byproduct, of being in relationship with the in-between, more than, sidestepped, danced aroundness. We do nothing alone. Being alone is an impossibility when we are humble bags of water & bacteria - sharing the same cultures in our guts.
There are things we need. It costs us money and time to pursue these humble activities.
If you have access to wealth in excess of your requirements - know that we do not and we are open to receiving so we can spend more time nourishing sideways ways & making wyrd art.
We are mostly crips existing on the margins - just getting by - spending money on tech and communications that could be food or other useful items that keep us alive & capable of creating, improvising with the other than human / making offerings to that which many have no time for.
We will not outlay what you will get for your offering because we don't know.
Feel free to offer the project support without getting anything but the knowledge that you are supporting a group of friends to make wyrd art and nourish new/old/sidesways ways of being. Knowing that the artefacts from our gatherings & communings will NOT be commodified & paywalled. There are no limits, from $50c to $50,000. Your offerings will be collectively held & we will gather & decide where it goes on a monthly basis according to need. Perhaps someone needs a new mic, food and medicine may be needed in a global hotspot, someone needs to travel to see a parent, child or friend, someone may be in need of a month off the work that causes them flair ups of pain & brings them to tears .....
What is given & where it goes will be transparently recorded in this spreadsheet for anyone to see..... We are looking at ways to have a collective means of holding money - in the mean time it will be managed by M who has experience with spreadsheets, budgets & accountability.
Making an offering will not guarantee there will be room for you at the gatherings. You will still need to fill out an expression of interest. You may not buy your way in to the agoras of our hearts.
What does it cost? What is it worth? What do I get?
Our gatherings, friendships, relationships, connections, conversations, communings are
NOT FOR SALE and will never be paywalled.
We will gather whether you are there or not. We will gather whether you share resources with us or not. We will share no matter how or whether you respond. Every one / thing will share differently & receive differently. Supply & demand between humans, exclusively, has no traction here. We all bring unseen, and yet felt, hordes with us, who may well receive more than we can imagine. This part of the equation is not easily recordible in spreadsheeted transactions.
We are NOT in service to any thing or one or entity. We are definitely NOT in service to your hungry ghosts or any whiff of collective trauma you feel belongs to you in a peculiar identitarian game. We are complexly noticing what we are already intra-tweened with, what we are already in collaboration with what we are already in an improvisational, imperceptible dance with.
We know NOT what we are or the totality of what we are part of or what is to come. We are noticing that much of what we think we know is laced with spuriosity. Time is mushy, invalidating the very question of, what is to come?
We will NOT pretend we can give you anything by our own will; that which we yearn for can not be contained, it / they slip through our fingers, shapeshift, flux, as we catch glimpses of morphing forms in the corner of our eyes, on a moonlit mountainous path. We are in a constant process of almoooost grasping a concept, kenning, knowing or shape of things, as it/they/we catapult through black holes, irrevocably turning it/them/our selves inside out, back to front, spirally out of control, simultaneously densifying, expanding, imploding & exploding. We give attention to the patterns, viscosity & tensions be- tween - knowing that all 'things' are in flux.
Our visceral offerings to the relational web, our trans-local sideways ways, our improvised culture is NOT codifiable, teachible, spreadsheetable or capable of being transmitted in a mind meld.
A plethora of entities with kennings beyond our grasp, swirl between us, concealing themselves in unlikely guises, doorways, places, people, things, ravens, trees, rhythms, stories, melodies, brush strokes & belly buttons. We nod imperceptibly to all the microbes, the imperceptible kin that have brought us here & who allow for the communal, digitally transmitted odour to be sweeeet, somewhat psychedelic & intoxicating.
We will NOT contain, commodify, package or market our deeply felt, relational nourishment with the other than human hordes, each other & our own porous assemblages (aka selves).
We will NOT pretend that we are any more special than you or try to prove our worth by sharing a long list of our supposed individual accomplishments, our artefacts of fitting into the boxes, our acquiescence to the industrial administrative complex & the institutions which attempt to curate us into hierarchies of worth, wisdom & authority.
We will NOT have "The Team / Who are we?" page with photos of how solid, finite, nameable, appealing, happy, healthy & winning we are as a means to encourage you to focus on our separate individual selves, as if they / we are somehow responsible for the strange communal soup we are part of & as if that might rub off on you somehow.
We will NOT offer you ingredients lists or methods for cooking the soup. We? are the soup. The ingredients, the pot, the fire, the wood, the wind et al, play their part & any recipe will fail at documenting the responsiveness needed to be with the complex intra-active relations happening in any moment.
We do NOT recommend becoming like us - improvising with the other than human, as crips, is a batshit crazy endeavour, with gnawing painful pitfalls which are veritably dangerous & regularly bring us to a seriously prostrate, life threatening humbleness.
We do NOT wish this on you. Our way of being-with is not always a desirable destination. It is what happens with pain, discomfort, impairment, sickness - we do NOT suggest you attempt to replicate these experiences, unless it is within the context of ritual replication with well trusted guides, which is not our bag, life itself conspires to orchestrate these processes. If you are already overcome, inexplicably seized by things beyond your kenning, we may be able to accompany you.
We do NOT have the answers.
We will NOT pretend we have figured out the 5 step methodology to your salvation.
We will definitely NOT be encouraging any kind of ascension from any thing, rather a noticing of gravity, a sensing descension in-to the dark, warm, welcoming caves with bear rugs, flickering fires, & inexplicable happenings, a being with & noticing our discomforts, earthy failures, struggles, an opening to multiple bodies, multiple ontologies, multiple co-existant emotions that may well not all be 'ours', a pragmatic realization of the magic of this exquisite existence we find ourselves part of.
We will NOT create a sense making map for you to follow, as if we have a superior vantage point & can see expertly through what is clearly a murky, blurry, peripheral pond that might actually be a stone, or a raven or indeed Odin himself & either way, is specific to your / our particular ecological & cultural landscapes. Life itself is kin with all of the many quintessentially shapeshifting, trickster entities. We notice them as well as the pantheons of entities & stories that bring edges, containers & the attempt to weigh things, that have no form. It is a fools errand to attempt to put anything in a singular, universalising nutshell. The chipmunks will always crack the nuts wide open.
Engaging in these relationships takes time, attention, focus & care. We have been meeting regularly & sharing asynchronously since 2020. Our work/play/ sideways ways are built on conversations, gathering, sharing, listening, caring, not taking things personally, having space to rant, rave, grieve, imagine, be curious, knowing we are swimming in the same cauldron, the same vegetable strewn field, the same carefully noticed imaginarium, pulsing with wyrd correspondences, we allow spillage, the messy stuff, the stuff that hurts, the stuff that bugs us, the weird encounters with the other & the strange. We commit to never sticking violently to kpi’s or agendas, always allowing for that which may seem like an interruption or an obstacle but when we look again, opens an alternative pathway to a sideways ontologically pulsing world.
We invite you to respond to the needs of this messy, entangled, loose collection / congerie of artists through offerings to the work / play / relational web, in whatever ways feel generative.
These gatherings are not transactional.
We are experimenting with acknowledging that gathering is a way for all of us to make offerings to the stories & other than human, to be with, improvise with, offer care / attention / acknowledgment with, each other, the other than human & the ecologies we are part of.
What each of us brings to the relational web will be different & what each takes will be different. Whatever we individually are nourished by is a byproduct, of being in relationship with the in-between, more than, sidestepped, danced aroundness. We do nothing alone. Being alone is an impossibility when we are humble bags of water & bacteria - sharing the same cultures in our guts.
There are things we need. It costs us money and time to pursue these humble activities.
If you have access to wealth in excess of your requirements - know that we do not and we are open to receiving so we can spend more time nourishing sideways ways & making wyrd art.
We are mostly crips existing on the margins - just getting by - spending money on tech and communications that could be food or other useful items that keep us alive & capable of creating, improvising with the other than human / making offerings to that which many have no time for.
We will not outlay what you will get for your offering because we don't know.
Feel free to offer the project support without getting anything but the knowledge that you are supporting a group of friends to make wyrd art and nourish new/old/sidesways ways of being. Knowing that the artefacts from our gatherings & communings will NOT be commodified & paywalled. There are no limits, from $50c to $50,000. Your offerings will be collectively held & we will gather & decide where it goes on a monthly basis according to need. Perhaps someone needs a new mic, food and medicine may be needed in a global hotspot, someone needs to travel to see a parent, child or friend, someone may be in need of a month off the work that causes them flair ups of pain & brings them to tears .....
What is given & where it goes will be transparently recorded in this spreadsheet for anyone to see..... We are looking at ways to have a collective means of holding money - in the mean time it will be managed by M who has experience with spreadsheets, budgets & accountability.
Making an offering will not guarantee there will be room for you at the gatherings. You will still need to fill out an expression of interest. You may not buy your way in to the agoras of our hearts.