The Nebula Lab with Gabz 404 & Dani D'Emilia [Session 8 - Dec 7, 2024]
This session took place on December 7, 2024.
Radically Tender Art-Life Practices for Co-Sensing Metabolic Intimacy
Guided by a yearning for “metabolic intimacy” — a responsible attunement with the web of inseparability connecting all relations — Dani’s art-life practice is rooted in transfeminist and decolonial sensibilities, and oriented by the force of Radical Tenderness. Their work weaves together artistic, somatic, affective, aesthetic, ecological, and spiritual practices to help deactivate the logic of separability within ourselves and our wider relations.
In this session, Dani will invite us to explore the concepts-movements of re-fusing and abscising as pathways to expanded intimacy, co-sensing into what it might take to un-numb ourselves to the pains and pleasures of our entanglement with non-human beings. Together, we’ll engage with artistic works and somatic practices, contemplating how to help hospice systems that subject and implicate us within violent logics of extraction and extinction, while exploring what such processes might look and feel like, both intimately and systemically.
What might we need to release to create space for other forms of coexistence, radical love, and metabolic reciprocity to inhabit us?
Dani d’Emilia (they/them) is an artist and educator working at the intersections of performance, visual art, radical pedagogy, and social-relational-ecological justice. Currently, they are developing Abscission, a research project in collaboration with Brazilian trans photographer and astrologer Gabz404, exploring queer metabolic sensibilities as pathways deviating from anthropocentric notions of individuality and superiority, and as openings into relations of visceral response_ability. Dani has been a member of the collective Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (CA/BR) since 2017 and co-founded the immersive theatre company Living Structures (UK) as well as the art space Roundabout.lx (PT). They were previously a member of the collectives La Pocha Nostra (US/MX, 2011-16) and Proyecto Inmiscuir (ES/MX, 2015-17), and a collaborator of AND Lab Centre for Research in Art-Thinking & Politics of Coexistence (PT/BR, 2018-21). Dani is also a facilitator of the online Facing Human Wrongs course hosted by the University of Victoria (CA) and coordinates residency programs focused on the role of the arts in cultivating cognitive, affective, and relational resilience in the face of growing social and ecological collapses.
More info: www.danidemilia.com
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After purchase, you will receive a separate email with the recording, in addition to your receipt.
This session took place on December 7, 2024.
Radically Tender Art-Life Practices for Co-Sensing Metabolic Intimacy
Guided by a yearning for “metabolic intimacy” — a responsible attunement with the web of inseparability connecting all relations — Dani’s art-life practice is rooted in transfeminist and decolonial sensibilities, and oriented by the force of Radical Tenderness. Their work weaves together artistic, somatic, affective, aesthetic, ecological, and spiritual practices to help deactivate the logic of separability within ourselves and our wider relations.
In this session, Dani will invite us to explore the concepts-movements of re-fusing and abscising as pathways to expanded intimacy, co-sensing into what it might take to un-numb ourselves to the pains and pleasures of our entanglement with non-human beings. Together, we’ll engage with artistic works and somatic practices, contemplating how to help hospice systems that subject and implicate us within violent logics of extraction and extinction, while exploring what such processes might look and feel like, both intimately and systemically.
What might we need to release to create space for other forms of coexistence, radical love, and metabolic reciprocity to inhabit us?
Dani d’Emilia (they/them) is an artist and educator working at the intersections of performance, visual art, radical pedagogy, and social-relational-ecological justice. Currently, they are developing Abscission, a research project in collaboration with Brazilian trans photographer and astrologer Gabz404, exploring queer metabolic sensibilities as pathways deviating from anthropocentric notions of individuality and superiority, and as openings into relations of visceral response_ability. Dani has been a member of the collective Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (CA/BR) since 2017 and co-founded the immersive theatre company Living Structures (UK) as well as the art space Roundabout.lx (PT). They were previously a member of the collectives La Pocha Nostra (US/MX, 2011-16) and Proyecto Inmiscuir (ES/MX, 2015-17), and a collaborator of AND Lab Centre for Research in Art-Thinking & Politics of Coexistence (PT/BR, 2018-21). Dani is also a facilitator of the online Facing Human Wrongs course hosted by the University of Victoria (CA) and coordinates residency programs focused on the role of the arts in cultivating cognitive, affective, and relational resilience in the face of growing social and ecological collapses.
More info: www.danidemilia.com
PURCHASE THE RECORDED WORKSHOP ↓
After purchase, you will receive a separate email with the recording, in addition to your receipt.
This session took place on December 7, 2024.
Radically Tender Art-Life Practices for Co-Sensing Metabolic Intimacy
Guided by a yearning for “metabolic intimacy” — a responsible attunement with the web of inseparability connecting all relations — Dani’s art-life practice is rooted in transfeminist and decolonial sensibilities, and oriented by the force of Radical Tenderness. Their work weaves together artistic, somatic, affective, aesthetic, ecological, and spiritual practices to help deactivate the logic of separability within ourselves and our wider relations.
In this session, Dani will invite us to explore the concepts-movements of re-fusing and abscising as pathways to expanded intimacy, co-sensing into what it might take to un-numb ourselves to the pains and pleasures of our entanglement with non-human beings. Together, we’ll engage with artistic works and somatic practices, contemplating how to help hospice systems that subject and implicate us within violent logics of extraction and extinction, while exploring what such processes might look and feel like, both intimately and systemically.
What might we need to release to create space for other forms of coexistence, radical love, and metabolic reciprocity to inhabit us?
Dani d’Emilia (they/them) is an artist and educator working at the intersections of performance, visual art, radical pedagogy, and social-relational-ecological justice. Currently, they are developing Abscission, a research project in collaboration with Brazilian trans photographer and astrologer Gabz404, exploring queer metabolic sensibilities as pathways deviating from anthropocentric notions of individuality and superiority, and as openings into relations of visceral response_ability. Dani has been a member of the collective Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (CA/BR) since 2017 and co-founded the immersive theatre company Living Structures (UK) as well as the art space Roundabout.lx (PT). They were previously a member of the collectives La Pocha Nostra (US/MX, 2011-16) and Proyecto Inmiscuir (ES/MX, 2015-17), and a collaborator of AND Lab Centre for Research in Art-Thinking & Politics of Coexistence (PT/BR, 2018-21). Dani is also a facilitator of the online Facing Human Wrongs course hosted by the University of Victoria (CA) and coordinates residency programs focused on the role of the arts in cultivating cognitive, affective, and relational resilience in the face of growing social and ecological collapses.
More info: www.danidemilia.com
PURCHASE THE RECORDED WORKSHOP ↓
After purchase, you will receive a separate email with the recording, in addition to your receipt.