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.
2024 Summer, above
2025 Summer below
SPACES OF PSYCHIC BELONGING
(Kinship Research in Process)
Spring 2024 - ongoing
ROOTED COLLECTIVE BED FOR EARTH, NATURE & COMMUNITY CONNECTION
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Transformation needs a Vessel.
Manifestation needs a Vessel.
The Vessel, The Body, The Reality, these are collectivly formed, accumulated, relational.
Spaces of Pyschic Belonging is A Research Ceremony Process, which describes ongoing ‘works’ which are space holders, anchors in the grid, based on relational based community re-generation and belonging: free-formed together with community.
There are three spaces in process under this research title.
- B-16 Gardening Plot in Templehof’s Garden Verein. (Berlin) (online through Telegram)
- Sarah’s Praxis Discord Server : Intra Ryhtyms (online)
- Female:Pressure Discord Server (online)
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Kinship, is Intersectional, yet also manages to bridge differences through nuance, empathy & story.
Kinship operates on the agreement that we leave our relational impact on the Other as something that benefits the Other as much as it benefits us.
How to Participate:
B-16 :
- This is an Open Network, centralising & affirming Feminine, Yin, Queer, Trans, Two Spirit & BIPOC Identities as Sacred Teachers.
- This is also a recharge location, where we give into the Earth.
- To join the B-16 Telegram send Sarah an email.
- The idea is that you tune into intution, into the group, and into the land and community of the location. We allow ourselves to shape and be shaped by the experience, and the seeking of belonging.
Seeking to Belong powers a lot of our Shadow behaviours, we are conditioned to constantly seek external validation from the top of the heirachical system (capitalist, patriachial, imago) instead of listening to our own wisdom: knowing our own heart. This conditioning and lack of alternative spaces can keep us looped into a validation seeking cycle from places which keep us small and disempowered.
The system conditions us this way through advertising, marketing, rhetoric in politics & media, beauty standards body-image, religion & societal norms (which get mistaken as ethics), as form of control. When we are powerless we are easy to control. When we are power-full, we are able to make choices, we are less easy for to control.
For bodies who are going through transformational healing from dysfunctional systems, perhaps going no contact with family, or perhaps shifting their entire auric grid, which means dissolving partnerships that no longer serve, and rebuilding a foundation to allow partnerships that do serve,
Being in community who speak certain language and understand this experience is extremely valuable as we can develop a mutual language of belonging to ourselves, eachother and the earth.
Belonging to eachother in intersectional community also means bridging the times when we disagree: allowing that to occur without abandoning eachother, or making the other bad/wrong.
Belonging to a peice of earth, to a garden, is a great teaching in abundance, non attachment, receptivity, seeing and peace.
UPON THE PSYCHIC CORRESPONDENCE OF DIGITAL FLESH
(Yin’s Return)
2023-2024
C-REFUND
RITUAL PRAXIS FOR POST DIGITAL INTIMACIES
Process Works of ASMR, Ambient, Dub & Broken Beat, live sound.
Whispered teachings and sound as Psychic-Ecology, Earth Meditation Groove.
For Greeting and Diving Into The Digital Realm.
Performed with variations on the following:
Computer, 4-7 Channels in-Mixer, Microphones, Gong & Shakers, Vocals, Analogue Machines.
Additional Turntables/CDJS could be added.
Visuals : Spiral Fractals layer upon organic moving imagery: surfaces of water & waterfalls.
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Yin is re-turning us to embrace our porousivity ~ multi-filament psychic architectures mediate a relational Open and Close through 5th divide towards digital-other.
This electro acoustic groove-based collective research ceremony; comprising three whispered meditational movements; from Sarah's research praxis into energetic algorithm and relational psychic space; "Upon The Psychic Correspondence of Digital Flesh” and acts as depth & holding practice in preparation for the sensorial body diving into post-digital future(s), towards co-emerging Yin.
Suggested to receive lying or sitting on the floor, please bring a cushion or blanket along with you for comfort, and any power objects to carry you in this experience.
Open The Body, Reset the Algorithms of your Mirror Mind and Take a Psychic Bath in Digital Waters.
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Broadcast on Radio Raheem: Coming Soon.
Performed live June 8th 2024, Atomino X Radip Raheem Stage, Kosmos Festival, Chemnitz.
Performed live Nov 3rd, Kasper Theatre Boehmische Platz, NK, Berlin.
Seeded in Dec 2021.
Practices from the Huichol (multiperspective), Dagara (water), Wu (Qi), Toltec (attention & counterpraxis), and Kānaka Maoli (444, reciprocity) especially guided this practice with respect and gratitude to Original Wisdom Keepers as the Stewards of our Earth.
Sounds and concept seeded through research-residency Body In Algorithms from Zero Corners, curated by Ashley Middleton and Georgia Perkins, and align with the entire written work of essay Saya Soma: Shadow Body in Encoded System.
The Digital Praxis was informed by Sacred Ceremony held with a collective of research attendants - at Dance In The Digital Waterfall, July 2021.
Access the previews to all the seperate parts of this work is seeded in the following projects:
- Algorithm Of the Mirror Mind
- INANNA’s DESCENT
- Saya Soma: Shadow Body In Encoded System
- To Open And Close Digital Space
- Dance in The Digital Waterfall
Image with big thanks to Ramona Tyler for her cosy perspective.
First-Session Inter-Relations, Kwia Berlin, May 2022.
Inter Relations was hosted by Dj’s Hysteria [Ray Pham] and Dj Nob.
INANNA’S DESCENT [LIVE SET]
Psychic Images appear as Rites-In-Sound
Upon the Correspondence Of Your Flesh
Live Electronics, Gong, Shakers.
I Hour electroacoustic earthy mediation groove
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Through poetry inscribed into stone, Sumeria, [c. 1900-1600 BCE] we learn about INANNA.
Her story is a quest into the transformational-meditative-dark to reveal true destiny of the inner receptive vessel within all, as seed for new design.
‘C-Refund presents Innana’s Descent’ is an electro-acoustic psychic-ecology of earthy-meditation-groove: dark, humid, multi-pathways, through under-and-lowerworld, reuniting us with animal-body and the power of the lower-realms as rite of passage.
Future-sound-imprint ‘Inanna’s Descent’; is dedicated with gratitude to synth-reiki-spiritualist, the beautiful, fantastic and inspiring, now-angel : Pauline Anna Strom.
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We enter this sound journey with a mediation into Algorithm of the Mirror-Mind, towards Animal Power drums and shakers [forthcoming sound from Sarah’s research praxis], meeting at The Gates with Sun Gong.
Nephthys, Goddess of The Temple walks us through midnight waxy-jungles. What happens after that ~ is your experience.
We come back into [?real life?] with a moment from Pauline Anna Strom for heart-opening send off through crystal waves.
💧~ Water is The Way Home ~ 💧
[message from a dream]
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Sampled-gong played by Roberta Perzolla of Spirit Yurt.
Whispers, Rattles, Drums and Flute by me.
Algorithm of the Mirror-Mind, recorded thanks to @adrienne.teicher
Sounds and Concepts supported by Residencies Body In Algorithm from Zero Corners, and Music Board Berlin’s Uckermark Residency in Studio Stern at Sternhagen Gut, with Gudrun Gut.
Psychic Images appear as Rites-In-Sound
Upon the Correspondence Of Your Flesh
Live Electronics, Gong, Shakers.
I Hour electroacoustic earthy mediation groove
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Through poetry inscribed into stone, Sumeria, [c. 1900-1600 BCE] we learn about INANNA.
Her story is a quest into the transformational-meditative-dark to reveal true destiny of the inner receptive vessel within all, as seed for new design.
‘C-Refund presents Innana’s Descent’ is an electro-acoustic psychic-ecology of earthy-meditation-groove: dark, humid, multi-pathways, through under-and-lowerworld, reuniting us with animal-body and the power of the lower-realms as rite of passage.
Future-sound-imprint ‘Inanna’s Descent’; is dedicated with gratitude to synth-reiki-spiritualist, the beautiful, fantastic and inspiring, now-angel : Pauline Anna Strom.
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We enter this sound journey with a mediation into Algorithm of the Mirror-Mind, towards Animal Power drums and shakers [forthcoming sound from Sarah’s research praxis], meeting at The Gates with Sun Gong.
Nephthys, Goddess of The Temple walks us through midnight waxy-jungles. What happens after that ~ is your experience.
We come back into [?real life?] with a moment from Pauline Anna Strom for heart-opening send off through crystal waves.
💧~ Water is The Way Home ~ 💧
[message from a dream]
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Sampled-gong played by Roberta Perzolla of Spirit Yurt.
Whispers, Rattles, Drums and Flute by me.
Algorithm of the Mirror-Mind, recorded thanks to @adrienne.teicher
Sounds and Concepts supported by Residencies Body In Algorithm from Zero Corners, and Music Board Berlin’s Uckermark Residency in Studio Stern at Sternhagen Gut, with Gudrun Gut.
“SAYA-SOMA” : Shadow Body in Encoded System
Future-Focused Core Shamanic Digital / Algorithmic Integrative Consciousness Ceremonial Research
2020 - 2021
This research has formed a 2 year practice-led self-initiated research program.
As part of residency Body in Algorithms, Zero Corners, 2020-22
The first 3 page essay will be published in 2023.
Curated by Ashley Middleton and Georgia Perkins.
The drawings on this page are a part of a much larger body of work around studies into Algorithmic portals to Objective Psyche.
[img: horntorus]
[IMG: COSMOLOGY MAPPING IN PROCESS - TOROIDAL PSYCHE EXPRESSED IN 2D, DEC 2021]
ABSTRACT //
‘Power relations inscribed in algorithms flood the human body through consumable media and fabricate a network of contradictory potentials. The body, defined in and through these systems of quantifiable data, finds itself in a parameter of logic in which the sensory experience revives with the technological. How do we engage with the senses, feelings and emotions of our bodies as we swim on the waves of coded networks?’**
Our bodies, extend into all spaces, we intra--act** “within a reality of continuously intermingling, flowing lines or strands of unfolding, agential activity, in which nothing (no thing) exists in separation from anything else, a reality within which we are immersed both as participant agencies and to which we also owe significant aspects of our own natures.” We inhabit the world -- and the world inhabits us.*** To intra--act with technology, means to intra--act with a force forging evolution : zeitgeist.
** Text excerpt derived from Zero Corners, Body in Algorithms Residency, 2020 - 22, Georgia Perkins, Phd, and Ashley Middleton.
** Intra--action: How entanglement precedes thingness, and relational dynamics are co--responsible for how things emerge. Cf. Barad, Karen (2007): Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham,NC: Duke University Press.
*** Shotter, John (2014): Agential realism, social constructionism, and our living relations to our surroundings: Sensing similarities rather than seeing patterns. Theory and Psychology, Vol. 24, Issue 3. pp. 305--325.
‘Power relations inscribed in algorithms flood the human body through consumable media and fabricate a network of contradictory potentials. The body, defined in and through these systems of quantifiable data, finds itself in a parameter of logic in which the sensory experience revives with the technological. How do we engage with the senses, feelings and emotions of our bodies as we swim on the waves of coded networks?’**
Our bodies, extend into all spaces, we intra--act** “within a reality of continuously intermingling, flowing lines or strands of unfolding, agential activity, in which nothing (no thing) exists in separation from anything else, a reality within which we are immersed both as participant agencies and to which we also owe significant aspects of our own natures.” We inhabit the world -- and the world inhabits us.*** To intra--act with technology, means to intra--act with a force forging evolution : zeitgeist.
** Text excerpt derived from Zero Corners, Body in Algorithms Residency, 2020 - 22, Georgia Perkins, Phd, and Ashley Middleton.
** Intra--action: How entanglement precedes thingness, and relational dynamics are co--responsible for how things emerge. Cf. Barad, Karen (2007): Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham,NC: Duke University Press.
*** Shotter, John (2014): Agential realism, social constructionism, and our living relations to our surroundings: Sensing similarities rather than seeing patterns. Theory and Psychology, Vol. 24, Issue 3. pp. 305--325.
SUPPORTING THEORY //
The body-psyche lives within the coded system of our personal and collective fragmentations. Everything that humans perceive and create is related to these fragments and codes, different states of sensorial embodiment. The communication of Spirit merges with our emotional, mental and spiritual algorithms or ‘code’.
In this developing research praxis the “Saya-Soma" is seen from an exploratory and shamanically informed perspective, as a technology of the body/psyche/spirit. (Saya, Sanskrit for early evening/shadow, Soma, pertaining to somatic; of the body.) The “Saya-Soma” as embodiment of shadow, presents herself through encounters with resistance, speaking her coded language though activated trauma-body.
What this research praxis offers is a visionary post-internet, post-anthropomorphic blending of relational complex system healing, supported by ancient multiperspectivism - which describes the unbreakable nature of the human spirit.
In [core] shamanism, trauma is understood as fragmented soul and perceived as missing or split off soul power. Through the lens of psychotherapy, trauma is understood as fragmented aspect of the psychic-self, one who split off as function to survival. Intra-psychic, fragmented and exiled parts ‘work’ following set coded systems. Based on strong belief, much like a coded algorithm, they write an entire reality, dwelling in undifferentiated aspects of psyche and becoming distorted and inflexible.
Through the lens of non-duality consciousness theory, fragmentation is ultimately illusion. The sensorial body - the feeling body - is the continued and constant experience point where to encounter connectedness with environment: Gravity.
The body-psyche lives within the coded system of our personal and collective fragmentations. Everything that humans perceive and create is related to these fragments and codes, different states of sensorial embodiment. The communication of Spirit merges with our emotional, mental and spiritual algorithms or ‘code’.
In this developing research praxis the “Saya-Soma" is seen from an exploratory and shamanically informed perspective, as a technology of the body/psyche/spirit. (Saya, Sanskrit for early evening/shadow, Soma, pertaining to somatic; of the body.) The “Saya-Soma” as embodiment of shadow, presents herself through encounters with resistance, speaking her coded language though activated trauma-body.
What this research praxis offers is a visionary post-internet, post-anthropomorphic blending of relational complex system healing, supported by ancient multiperspectivism - which describes the unbreakable nature of the human spirit.
In [core] shamanism, trauma is understood as fragmented soul and perceived as missing or split off soul power. Through the lens of psychotherapy, trauma is understood as fragmented aspect of the psychic-self, one who split off as function to survival. Intra-psychic, fragmented and exiled parts ‘work’ following set coded systems. Based on strong belief, much like a coded algorithm, they write an entire reality, dwelling in undifferentiated aspects of psyche and becoming distorted and inflexible.
Through the lens of non-duality consciousness theory, fragmentation is ultimately illusion. The sensorial body - the feeling body - is the continued and constant experience point where to encounter connectedness with environment: Gravity.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS // DATA
Can we heal our own Saya-Soma (collective shadow body), if we act upon healing the fragmented digital ‘body-entity’?
What if these bodies are interchangeable, one and the same?
What impact does the digital realm have on consciousness, the act of creativity and the post-digital-body?
How can this become a tool for intentional growth within the digital to support collective integration and ‘new world’ consciousness, for a post-’extractivist’-era?
The research questions were worked through within non ordinary reality, in practice, through drum journeys, ritual, dance journeys, dreaming and downloads, oracle readings and divinations, in accompaniment with ordinary reality research methods.
Can we heal our own Saya-Soma (collective shadow body), if we act upon healing the fragmented digital ‘body-entity’?
What if these bodies are interchangeable, one and the same?
What impact does the digital realm have on consciousness, the act of creativity and the post-digital-body?
How can this become a tool for intentional growth within the digital to support collective integration and ‘new world’ consciousness, for a post-’extractivist’-era?
The research questions were worked through within non ordinary reality, in practice, through drum journeys, ritual, dance journeys, dreaming and downloads, oracle readings and divinations, in accompaniment with ordinary reality research methods.
The field-based shamanic research work activates a tool / the function of decentralising.
The forms of this practical work could take the action of soul retrieval, extraction, power transferral, ecstatic dance, sound activated trance or other presence and somatic technique related with experiencing the digital.
The forms of this practical work could take the action of soul retrieval, extraction, power transferral, ecstatic dance, sound activated trance or other presence and somatic technique related with experiencing the digital.
Research is made in collective altered states of consciousness, based on individual experience [individual relationship with reality] and held in ceremonial connection with Soul, Spirit and Otherworld, pertaining to access organic dataset.
[IMG: From an early presentation of the project]
WHY LOOK THROUGH THE DIGITAL MIRROR? //
THE POST-HUMAN BESOULED IDENTITY-BODY //
The effects of social media on parts of the psyche that have been exiled or abandoned, call a need for more awareness of generating compassionate power treatments of the social-digital. And that is only one aspect of the digital identity body.
Can we abstractly transform our collective trauma body, if we take personal ownership to heal our own perceptions of fragmented digital “body”?
What if these bodies are interchangeable, one and the same?
How can this become a tool for more intentional growth within the digital to support integration and new would consciousness, for a post-patriachy and post-internet era?
How does the identity/soul integrated with the online spaces transform our inner constellated identity/soul?
THE POST-HUMAN BESOULED IDENTITY-BODY //
The effects of social media on parts of the psyche that have been exiled or abandoned, call a need for more awareness of generating compassionate power treatments of the social-digital. And that is only one aspect of the digital identity body.
Can we abstractly transform our collective trauma body, if we take personal ownership to heal our own perceptions of fragmented digital “body”?
What if these bodies are interchangeable, one and the same?
How can this become a tool for more intentional growth within the digital to support integration and new would consciousness, for a post-patriachy and post-internet era?
How does the identity/soul integrated with the online spaces transform our inner constellated identity/soul?
“At a time when many people are feeling the deep splits within themselves, as well as suffering the deep splits and fault lines of the collective culutre,
what is needed is not a series of binary choices.
Not simply an accumulation of more information, but what is needed is a descent to interior places of wisdom.”
- Micheal Meade [On Myth & Co-creation]
[ IMG: NOTES/DOWNLOAD : TRAUMA INTO INTERSECTIONALITY ]
[ IMG: FAULT LINE BINARY SKETCH [LEFT], WORLD-MIRROR FUNCTION TO SOUL POWER- THROUGH TRIGGERS/TRAUMA,SKETCH [RIGHT], DOWNLOADS, 2021 ]
[ IMG: SHADOW FAULT LINES SKETCH [LEFT], TRAVELLING THROUGH THE LACUNA SKETCH [RIGHT], DOWNLOADS, 2021 ]
[ IMG: HEIGHTS, MIDDLE, DEPTH, SKETCH [LEFT], MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS COSMOLOGY - SEARCHING FOR DIGITAL SHADOWS, [RIGHT], 2021 ]
[IMG: COSMOLOGY MAPPING IN PROCESS - TOROIDAL PSYCHE EXPRESSED IN 3D, DEC 2021 ]
RESEARCH STRUCTURE / PROCESS // OUTCOMES
2023:
Essay #1 in Body In Algorithms Publication
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2022:
OUTCOMES IN SOUND: ALGORITHM OF THE MIRROR MIND, June, 2022.
- A stand-alone sound performance part of a forthcoming album, and also interwoven through current 1HR Live Set from C-REFUND called INANNA’S DESCENT
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2021:
CONNECTED ONLINE OPEN PRAXIS:
RAVEBODY RELEASE, Dec - Jan 2021.
CONNECTED RESEARCH CEREMONY:
DANCE IN THE DIGITAL WATERFALL, July 2021.
2023:
Essay #1 in Body In Algorithms Publication
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2022:
OUTCOMES IN SOUND: ALGORITHM OF THE MIRROR MIND, June, 2022.
- A stand-alone sound performance part of a forthcoming album, and also interwoven through current 1HR Live Set from C-REFUND called INANNA’S DESCENT
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2021:
CONNECTED ONLINE OPEN PRAXIS:
RAVEBODY RELEASE, Dec - Jan 2021.
CONNECTED RESEARCH CEREMONY:
DANCE IN THE DIGITAL WATERFALL, July 2021.
2020:
OPEN CALL FOR SHAMANIC PRACTITIONERS TO JOIN THE RESEARCH,
[NOV 2020]
Pre Requisite for Researchers:
- acknowledgement of the Sacred - as being the third possibility, encompassing two halves. This acknowledgement of the whole, as sacred comes with an acknowledgment of Spirit as the creators of our experience, who co-emerge with our gaze.
- holistic, non-heirachical, non-local gaze [post feminist/queer]
Context:
“Where the sea meets the land, life has blossomed into a myriad of unique forms in the turbulence of water, sand, and the wind. At another seashore between the land of atoms and the sea of bits, we are not facing the challenge of reconciling our dual citizenships in the physical and digital world.” - Ishii Hiroshi (2009)
Water Process:
“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.
Alchemy:
“The torture stories come from the dark. But if you retell the horror without creating the dark anew, you feed it. You do not break the mould. We need to dream the dark as a process, and dream the dark as change. to create the dark in a new image, because the dark creates us.” - Starhawk
OPEN CALL FOR SHAMANIC PRACTITIONERS TO JOIN THE RESEARCH,
[NOV 2020]
Pre Requisite for Researchers:
- acknowledgement of the Sacred - as being the third possibility, encompassing two halves. This acknowledgement of the whole, as sacred comes with an acknowledgment of Spirit as the creators of our experience, who co-emerge with our gaze.
- holistic, non-heirachical, non-local gaze [post feminist/queer]
Context:
“Where the sea meets the land, life has blossomed into a myriad of unique forms in the turbulence of water, sand, and the wind. At another seashore between the land of atoms and the sea of bits, we are not facing the challenge of reconciling our dual citizenships in the physical and digital world.” - Ishii Hiroshi (2009)
Water Process:
“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.
Alchemy:
“The torture stories come from the dark. But if you retell the horror without creating the dark anew, you feed it. You do not break the mould. We need to dream the dark as a process, and dream the dark as change. to create the dark in a new image, because the dark creates us.” - Starhawk
