Inspired by We Will Dance with Mountains 2021 Course/Festival with Bayo Akomalafe and friends as well as all those who participated and the wider burgeoning animist culture -including the creative cultural musings/work/play of Dare Sohei & Larissa Kaul of Animist Arts, Tada Hozumi, Sofie Strand, Shante Zenith, Azul Thome, Tricky Singer, Craig Slee, Claudia Frick, Robyn Fila, Aerin Dunford, Randy Jones, Rhawn Jones and all that moves through me and the forests, rivers and sea where I live.
What if we de-centre the human?
What perspectives do we gain if we admit that ‘we’ /’human’ are not the only agents in play
As the growing global animist digital village, which dwells in the interwebs as well as synchronously through all the cultures of care, that ever lived through a humanoid assemblage, myceliates through our minds, bodies, experience
There is a multiplying thicker sense of we
Alliances gathering within us, between us
Other sources of power gestating beside us
Magical impossibilities coalescing- that which is not us and yet is at the core of us
Let us improvise with the more-than -other -than - sidestepped - danced into, fluxxed, wider sense of WE.
Play with, be with, grieve with, inspire with, dance with, sing with, scream with
Listen to
May we feel the gratitude and the welcoming for our ‘selves’, each ‘other’, for the paradoxical synchronous harmonic dissonance where all that we fear, all that we mistakenly attempt to exile is welcomed back to the gathering
Welcomed back to the overwhelming yet playful, easeful, simply sensed, comforting discomfort,
Abundant scarcity, precariously lived fiery, watery, earthy, rocky, rough, smooth, airy existence on this unbelievable spinning rock as it hurtles through space time in the most curious ways…
