We looked for artifacts, memories, sensings, and unravelings; a different body for an archive of past projects. And, of course, we sense that ten is an entity that absolutely refuses to be defined by what it has accomplished – what was left imprinted on the negative space of the planned, sketched, and intended pas ten offerings?
It’s not crucial whether the project “came to fruition” or not – we see each humble experiment as a learning circle; it doesn’t have to have been an offering that gestated publically or that “arrived” on the shores of success.
A politics of the third way
[Báyò Akómoláfé, Ph.D.]
We do not act upon the world.
We are the world in its unspeakable tensions, contradictions, experimentations, creativities, and messy alchemies.
It is not left to us to save the day.
Liquid Cartographies Festival
Liquid Cartographies:Reshaping the Banks of the Possible [past ten events] Liquid Cartographies – ten's 2025 seasonal festival in Red Hook, Brooklyn – offered participants the opportunity to experience ideas and places in processes of constant flux. Dominant systems...
Liquid Cartographies
On land. This two-word phrase holds down a solidness, a sense of knowing that needs no further definition. We feel the undeniable fact of land under our feet. These mappings confirm not just where we are but who we are: to what we belong, what we can inhabit, what we...
Becoming Monster
becoming MONSTER [past ten events] What if – instead of rehabilitating monsters – we make sanctuary with them? What if we allow them to gnaw at the stability of the upstanding, “good,” hyper-individualized human being, provoking us to re-imagine, re-feel and re-intuit...
We Were Never in a World
We Were Never in a World [Báyò Akómoláfé, Ph.D.] A Paraontological Reflection & Communiqué for the COP30 on Climate, Diversity, & the Ontologies Beneath the FloorboardsThese days, there is a certain fever about the language of inclusion. A growing...
Being-with the Monster
Being-with the Monster [Krista Dragomer & Erin Manning, Ph.D.] Those of us at ten are deeply grateful, honoured and enlivened to be dreaming up and breathing life into our work alongside Krista Dragomer, The Intercessor and Artistic Director for Becoming Monster....
Welcome to Our Mbari Harvest
Welcome to Our Mbari Harvest [past ten events] After ten months of tireless work throughout most of 2023, ten celebrated the launch of a new website and the fruits of an aesthetic ‘re-brand-ish-ing’ process. The elaborate mbari of the Igbo people of Nigeria is a...
Still, here
Still, here [Fabrice Oliver Dubosc] Fabrice Olivier Dubosc – a part of the ten Visionary Council – shares meandering reflections on the fugitive being of relation in S. Katugampala’s 2023 film, Still Here, weaving in thoughts from Báyò Akómoláfé, Erin Manning,...
Dung Beetles Project Description
Dung Beetles [ten artifacts] In 2022 ten invited seven incredible people from around the world to come together and lead the work for nine months. They served in a role we affectionately dubbed the “Dung Beetles” since the idea was that they would be rolling around...
The Underground Description
The Underground [ten artifacts] Near the beginning of 2021, we decided to give the centre of ten some good sweet time for resting, sighing, surrendering, and listening. Time to allow the entity that is The Emergence Network to visit us in ways that may have been...