how can we cultivate discernment in times of transformation?

The rules we inherited for organising life no longer seem to suffice. Did they ever? If ecosystems thrive through ongoing relational recalibration, how might we cultivate ecological discernment in times of radical transformation? Through embodied practice, reflection, and dialogue with more-than-human companions, explore practices of attention that help us stay in relationship while everything – including ourselves- is changing.

The workshop draws on ideas explored in ABSCISSION, a new artist book by Dani d’Emilia exploring release as a relational practice of care. Join for the launch of ABSCISSION at Live Art Development Agency, Friday 20th November.

Through performance documentation and visual works, accompanied by critical, poetic writing, Dani engages their experiences of hysterectomy and non-binary mastectomy as entry points into wider questions of transformation, queerness, ecology and more-than-human kinship, inviting readers to move from overwhelm towards wonder with radical tenderness.

This workshop is presented as part of CEREMONY, Future Ritual’s festival of performance art.

Image credit: Dani d’Emilia, Oneiric Re-Membering (series), 2023. Action for camera, Viamão, Brasil. Photos: Gabz404