END OF RESIDENCY WEBZINE

- a moment of realisation, change and/or disruption

I was invited into an experiment to lay supine during the days leading up to the USA’s presidential election. The first day we laid at the river. This act of laying supine invited me to feel all the exhaustion that was in my body and spirit—this became a part of finding my bodily home.

- a moment of connection

“Put one hand on your heart and the other on your pelvis. Breathe from one to the other.” This was told to me by a movement facilitator when I felt like my body wasn’t my home. This was invitation to return to myself that I could invoke throughout the residency.

- something you will carry forward

Stay process oriented. In Eva Rowson’s recipe for Fermentation she writes, “It’s a living process. It’s unstable, based on interconnectedness.” And that’s what this sensual art making has been—an engagement with feeling, unpredictability, the body, and connection with others.

- any tools / methods / resources to share

Turn to breath. “To the necessity of breath, to breathing space, to the breathtaking spaces in the wake in which we live; and to the ways we respond, “with wonder and admiration, you are alive, like hydrogen, like oxygen” (Dionne Brand)” (Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being).

- a question you are left with
How do we document exhaustion and failure when they become a part of the process?

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