from the fugitive assemblage
An Infection
How you are already involved.
from the fugitive assemblage
Rhythmic Call
A periodic invitation for experimental, postactivist projects and inquiries.
from the fugitive assemblage
Seasonal Festivals
Cyclical translocal gatherings.
ten is tilling the soil of the valley, building nests out of tattered bits and pieces discarded by modernity. We are cultivating a commonwealth of bewilderment for those around the world who feel despair about the future, hopeless about conventional activism’s ability to change it, and lost about what else there is to do.
We are calling together an experimental, underground network of postactivist practitioners interested in exploring other ways of knowing, being, sensing, relating and responding to the crises of our time.
The provocative ideas and worldviews offered by ten over the past many years have inspired people to think and behave differently when it comes to modernity, activism, de-centering the human, and our entanglement with other agencies & places of power. Our aspiration at this time is to animate these ideas through local and translocal experiments and to deepen our understanding (and misunderstanding) of postactivism through ongoing praxis and un/learning. This trembling web is animated through online connections, a vibrant and diverse underground community of practice, translocal experiments, semi-autonomous project pods, and gatherings, courses & carnivals.
For sometime now, the humans involved at The Emergence Network have longed to understand how to create ports or portals or wormholes through which others might enter to join us, to contribute and learn from our explorations, reflections, ponderings and practices. We have many ongoing opportunities for engagement / small experiments arising emergently all the time. Beyond these, there are three key pathways leading into the valley of ten:
At the end of 2025, ten re-evaluated our different burrows of activity. An Infection, our translocal community of practice, ended in a composting ritual with the hope that its death could nourish a future experiment in translocal neighborhood-ing.
We are now rethinking the way we enter into alliances and the ecosystem of partnerships with individuals and other organizations. We are asking: What resources do we have to offer? What would we like to receive? What are the gifts and needs brought by the different parties engaged in the collaboration? If you are interesting in collaborating with ten, please fill out this little form.
After two years of hosting massive online, hybrid and in-person festivals, ten is hosting a month-long series of interlocking explorations called The Playgrounds in November and December 2026. These will hopefully be supported by the impetus and action of communities in different parts of the world.
We continue to seek funding to support longer artistic and postactivist residencies as part of the Rhythmic Calls for Projects. Let us know if you have ideas about where to find resources for this kind of work. To read about our exploratory theme of PLAY take a peep at our 2026 Concept Note.