KINSHIP & CONTRADICTION
poetic writing practices for constellating dialogue, as architechures in navigation of erasuresre-membering, re-claiming.
Solidarity Studies, Collective Liberation, Depth Mediation, Ceremonial Research
2024 - 2025
Kinship and Contradiction, is ‘out there’ in relation.
‘Relation scatters from being’ - Edouard Glissant
The virtual, is stretched far enough into non-being towards holding polycrisis - at ‘the not yet’; of polyseed.
This research is building on previous, Shadow Body in Encoded System, the title comes about as a curious expansion into our return into re-animation- a visioning of what comes after a supposed ‘de-humanisation/re-humanisation’.
This practice-led and self-initiated research program began with addressing the issue of solidarity, perception, and collective liberation, from within psycho-spiritual dialogues and communities - acknowledging de-conditioning processes such as deprogramming from white supremacy, understanding xenophobia, ethno-centrisms, privelige, extending into the poetic-as-real.
Political systems do have a psychic life and are equally affected by mental or psychic (dis)order.
Kinship & Contradiction seeks an innerstanding into intimate politics of psyche.
Infastructure takes the form of dismantlings (deconstructions), and reparations (constructions).
Multi-dialogues converge and diverge from lived and living contradictions, failures, alliances (both forming and broken) and seek to navigate ways towards understanding Kin as ancient and weathered fabric, through our collective trauma, through being able to locate this trauma within a realm: imperiallism, patriachal and white supreme - the internalised call and responses giving parts of the fabric of psyche illusions of universality.
The mapping of this project futher investigates and centralises a forever-yet-to-be-born feminist wisdom of Wound to Wound relating, an Orbital Remembering and Forgetting.
Especially written for the altered ego of a post-colonial, post-human, hydro-feminst and nueroexpansive psyche, through an ancestral lens, while prioritising accessibility and simplicity in delivery.
In relation everything defined is dissolved. Kinship is always contradiction.
POETICS //
Where are boundaries (ambivalences) of belonging, freedom, sanity & madness, shifting in relation to geopolitical time?
Possessed by pains of an oppressor, How do disciplined and liberated bodies align? (re-focus)
What is a ‘borderless’ psychic visioning in a post-digital, post-human ‘re-humanisation’ inclusive of yet decentralising, internalised psychic cruelties of liberation?
What other grammars or gazes into lineage, might we have access to, other than to retell our lifestories in terms of how much we have been injured?
How can we revison the service of empathy into magnetics, coemergences?
PERSONAL SHADOW WORKS //
- Which depth, ie: layers, translucencies, opacities, can we find within this wound?
- For a body of multiplicities, How many wounds do I have access to?
- How deep is inside out, where do I loose self, can I do this by choice, why would I, and where is the limit?
- How to treat the wound of the oppressor, internalised? What does it (de)serve?
ABSTRACT // ...In development...
WHY LOOK AT KINSHIP & CONTRADICTION?
Personal identity, ‘being visible’, deconditioning and Essential Identity are all relational movements which relate to where our own connection with ‘woundedness’ is lying. The wound has been internalised within the hyper individual, at a cost to agency, personal power, democracy, resiliency and diversity of culture. That location of the wound needs to move into the culture, but then how does our healing happen, how does the reparation occur? It must also happen in culture: Specifically the reparation must be originating from the extraction portal, from within western, and white culture, colonial culture.
Before this can happen, as we can see with the dissents and awakenings, into kin through the webs of solidarity, into non heirachy, into alliance, into mutuality, also comes the rise of the awareness of externalised oppressors - the violent, the intrusive, psychic ‘bad object’ forcing their way in - appropriating, stealing, consuming, hijacking, looming over, extracting, intimidating.... and that being a system done to an inner Earth and Water within.
Kinship as Solidarity, Kinship as Animist, re-animation, and Kinship as new system of universality, which de-localises it’s centres of generative wisdoms through contradiction, into the spaces of echo, of relation.
Personal identity, ‘being visible’, deconditioning and Essential Identity are all relational movements which relate to where our own connection with ‘woundedness’ is lying. The wound has been internalised within the hyper individual, at a cost to agency, personal power, democracy, resiliency and diversity of culture. That location of the wound needs to move into the culture, but then how does our healing happen, how does the reparation occur? It must also happen in culture: Specifically the reparation must be originating from the extraction portal, from within western, and white culture, colonial culture.
Before this can happen, as we can see with the dissents and awakenings, into kin through the webs of solidarity, into non heirachy, into alliance, into mutuality, also comes the rise of the awareness of externalised oppressors - the violent, the intrusive, psychic ‘bad object’ forcing their way in - appropriating, stealing, consuming, hijacking, looming over, extracting, intimidating.... and that being a system done to an inner Earth and Water within.
Kinship as Solidarity, Kinship as Animist, re-animation, and Kinship as new system of universality, which de-localises it’s centres of generative wisdoms through contradiction, into the spaces of echo, of relation.
SUPPORTING THEORY // In development...
Achille Mbembe, Planetary Consicousness & Necropoltics
Sonbufu Some, Malidome Some, Falling From Grace
Zenjyu Earthlyn Manuel, Tenderness, Essential & Personal Identity
RESEARCH AS CEREMONY // Will be held as communal writing sessions, online. TBA. Taking the form of a multifaith prayer circles, these can be moments to write with our Ancestors, to write to Self, to centralise, to multiply, to dissapear, to merge, to become.
Achille Mbembe, Planetary Consicousness & Necropoltics
Sonbufu Some, Malidome Some, Falling From Grace
Zenjyu Earthlyn Manuel, Tenderness, Essential & Personal Identity
RESEARCH AS CEREMONY // Will be held as communal writing sessions, online. TBA. Taking the form of a multifaith prayer circles, these can be moments to write with our Ancestors, to write to Self, to centralise, to multiply, to dissapear, to merge, to become.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS // DATA ... development ...
Where is the edge of Kinship? Is it moving? How is it informed, whose voices form it, and how does it inform a way of relational non-being?
Through a post-human and ecological spiritual lens, yet remaining in the political, if any form of kinship needs to be imagined, with a centre of all things being acknowlegded as being in the Darkness, within Spirit itself, and within Ceremony as process - how can we as non indigenous bodies, as western concsiousness, deprogram and deconstruct enough in order to reconstruct through ways of reparation?
How can we bring back an authentic Body of Ceremony, into an erased, missing, lost, cultural identity as trans, inter, femme, eNBy, queer, black, brown, indigenous, diasporic, politisised and white cis assiged bodies?
Where is the loci of the wound? Where does defecit or attention, lie? And if it is to be in the systemic, and not only back in the black or brown body, nor the colonised body, nor the white or european body, how can we collectively pass through it, towards a language of kinship as recognition of locations and proximities, in a dismantling and repairing constellation? How does kinship as a process, form collective liberation? Who is in service, how are they in service and who or what is served?
Is there a mechanism for or how could a mechanism or way of knowlegde production through kinship and contradiction, as a practice, become a tool for intentional collective non local post-extractivist and kinship oriented futures?
Where is the edge of Kinship? Is it moving? How is it informed, whose voices form it, and how does it inform a way of relational non-being?
Through a post-human and ecological spiritual lens, yet remaining in the political, if any form of kinship needs to be imagined, with a centre of all things being acknowlegded as being in the Darkness, within Spirit itself, and within Ceremony as process - how can we as non indigenous bodies, as western concsiousness, deprogram and deconstruct enough in order to reconstruct through ways of reparation?
How can we bring back an authentic Body of Ceremony, into an erased, missing, lost, cultural identity as trans, inter, femme, eNBy, queer, black, brown, indigenous, diasporic, politisised and white cis assiged bodies?
Where is the loci of the wound? Where does defecit or attention, lie? And if it is to be in the systemic, and not only back in the black or brown body, nor the colonised body, nor the white or european body, how can we collectively pass through it, towards a language of kinship as recognition of locations and proximities, in a dismantling and repairing constellation? How does kinship as a process, form collective liberation? Who is in service, how are they in service and who or what is served?
Is there a mechanism for or how could a mechanism or way of knowlegde production through kinship and contradiction, as a practice, become a tool for intentional collective non local post-extractivist and kinship oriented futures?
MODES OF RESEARCH //
Research questions will be worked through within ordinary realities, non ordinary realities, in practice, through drum journeys, ritual, dance journeys, dreaming, downloads, oracle readings and divinations, in accompaniment with resourcing through existing knowledge banks.
The forms of this practical work could take the action of soul retrieval, extraction, power transferral, live art, dance, sound or other presence and somatic technique related.
Research is made through writing practice, where the sharing of information through social (online) networks is then collected back into the body of the text. The text forms through collections of short burst messages, ‘rants’, and affirmations.
The field-based ancestral research work activates a function of decentralising.
An organic dataset is recognised within the group mediations, and casework Sarah has been undertaking through 2022-2025.
Research questions will be worked through within ordinary realities, non ordinary realities, in practice, through drum journeys, ritual, dance journeys, dreaming, downloads, oracle readings and divinations, in accompaniment with resourcing through existing knowledge banks.
The forms of this practical work could take the action of soul retrieval, extraction, power transferral, live art, dance, sound or other presence and somatic technique related.
Research is made through writing practice, where the sharing of information through social (online) networks is then collected back into the body of the text. The text forms through collections of short burst messages, ‘rants’, and affirmations.
The field-based ancestral research work activates a function of decentralising.
An organic dataset is recognised within the group mediations, and casework Sarah has been undertaking through 2022-2025.
[ IMG: FROM RESEARCH WORK: ‘SHADOW BODY IN ENCODED SYSTEM’: ‘SHADOW FAULT LINES SKETCH’ [LEFT], ‘TRAVELLING THROUGH THE LACUNA SKETCH’ [RIGHT], DOWNLOADS, 2021 ]
RESEARCH STRUCTURE / PROCESSUAL OUTCOMES
2025:
October, 2025 | TBA - ‘Becomings’, Berlin.
- Conceptual Strategy - Relational - Political -
14 June 2025 | Misal Adnan Yıldız in collaboration with Leman Darıcıoğlu, Sarah Martinus, and Berk Akkaya, “…When one of us Remembers who we really are, all of us Remember…”, book launch, performance based research and discussion, Pickle Bar, Berlin | In collaboration with Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Feb - April, 2025 | Stewardship, Project & Site Management, Participary, Transformative Justice Social-Arts-Incubator: Blocklab447 -> in Buckow, NK, with Teenagers
2024:
- Rooting - Activisms - Solidarity - Mediations -
CONNECTED ONLINE OPEN PRAXIS:
Ceremony For Depth Re-Memberment - Bodies Of Proximity - online session. Listen Here.
CONNECTED RESEARCH CEREMONY:
9th June 2024, Roots To Freedom, Ancestral Belonging Ceremony, BIPOC, TIN* & Bodies of Proximity Centralising, Holographic Healing Nest, Berlin.
(Participants remaining anonymous)
2025:
October, 2025 | TBA - ‘Becomings’, Berlin.
- Conceptual Strategy - Relational - Political -
14 June 2025 | Misal Adnan Yıldız in collaboration with Leman Darıcıoğlu, Sarah Martinus, and Berk Akkaya, “…When one of us Remembers who we really are, all of us Remember…”, book launch, performance based research and discussion, Pickle Bar, Berlin | In collaboration with Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Feb - April, 2025 | Stewardship, Project & Site Management, Participary, Transformative Justice Social-Arts-Incubator: Blocklab447 -> in Buckow, NK, with Teenagers
2024:
- Rooting - Activisms - Solidarity - Mediations -
CONNECTED ONLINE OPEN PRAXIS:
Ceremony For Depth Re-Memberment - Bodies Of Proximity - online session. Listen Here.
CONNECTED RESEARCH CEREMONY:
9th June 2024, Roots To Freedom, Ancestral Belonging Ceremony, BIPOC, TIN* & Bodies of Proximity Centralising, Holographic Healing Nest, Berlin.
(Participants remaining anonymous)
OPEN CALL FOR PRACTITIONERS TO JOIN THE RESEARCH :
(yet to be advertised, opened)
Pre Requisite for Researchers:
- Acknowledgement of Imannence as being in the centre of a Darkness - Sacred Whole, as creator of experience, who co-emerges with gaze.
- Holistic, non-heirachical, non-local gaze [deprogramming, black feminist/queer]
Psychic Process:
Transformative Mutually Beneficial Maneures
We will be dissolving into humus, dissonance of soils, shits & manures. We search deeper into the being-ness amongst transformations of poison to cure, curse to gift.
Earth Destructions (Fire)
We will be looking into Volcanos, how Islands are formed through Volcanic erruption and into the mineral production of the Earth, from Fire.
Water Regenerations
“What it is that water touches, in me? What is it that water can connect with, in me?
So that the moment when I connect with water, this can be a psychic bath.”
- Malidoma Patrice Some.
(yet to be advertised, opened)
Pre Requisite for Researchers:
- Acknowledgement of Imannence as being in the centre of a Darkness - Sacred Whole, as creator of experience, who co-emerges with gaze.
- Holistic, non-heirachical, non-local gaze [deprogramming, black feminist/queer]
Psychic Process:
Transformative Mutually Beneficial Maneures
We will be dissolving into humus, dissonance of soils, shits & manures. We search deeper into the being-ness amongst transformations of poison to cure, curse to gift.
Earth Destructions (Fire)
We will be looking into Volcanos, how Islands are formed through Volcanic erruption and into the mineral production of the Earth, from Fire.
Water Regenerations
“What it is that water touches, in me? What is it that water can connect with, in me?
So that the moment when I connect with water, this can be a psychic bath.”
- Malidoma Patrice Some.