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.
Meet at the Crossroads Project Description
Meet at the Crossroads [past ten events] Meet at the Crossroads was launched as a gifting circle and mycelial network of research inquiry into the postactivist implications of responsibility in our turbulent world; it was a fugitive series of monthly online gatherings...
Wilds Beyond Climate Justice Project Description
The Wilds Beyond Climate Justice [past ten events] The Wilds Beyond Climate Justice: A gathering at the end of hope was an experimental online event to engage in different activities, actions, and conversations that evade Western logic as it defines rational climate...
Steal A Way Project Description
Steal a Way [ten artifacts] Steal a Way is a collaboration between curators Jiordi Rosales (The Emergence Network) and brontë velez (Lead to Life). Steal a Way is a practice, fellowship and convening that lives at the intersections of black traditions of fugitivity...
Nepantla Project Description
Nepantla [ten artifacts] Nepantla was the first in-person gathering/short residency program in Chennai, India held for and by ten curators, custodians, earthworms and supporters in January, 2020. Nepantla is a Nahual word which means “the place of no place”. The...
Vunja Project Description
Vunja! [ten artifacts] Imagine other possibilities of being alive! Imagine ruptures and openings in spaces of suffering. Imagine other shapes and genres of being human. Imagine other futures! Vunja means rupture or breakage and also colloquially denotes ‘dance’ in...
Vulture Project Description
Vulture [past ten events] Vulture offered participants a different shape of hope: hope not in solutions or saviours but in the smell of soil, the migration of birds, and the intense beauty of seeing each other dance at the edge of things. Vulture was an on and...
Sanktuaree Project Description
Sanktuaree [ten artifacts] The generative ritual of Sanktuaree invites us to pay attention to the ways we collectively perform the normal, and to make room for other places of power as we welcome the outlier, embrace the irregular and weird, and stitch a politics of...
Dung Beetles: How We Roll / Intra-active Woven Web of Fundaments
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 Premise of Vunja!
Vunja! [ten artifacts] Imagine other possibilities of being alive! Imagine ruptures and openings in spaces of suffering. Imagine other shapes and genres of being human. Imagine other futures! Vunja means rupture or breakage and also colloquially denotes ‘dance’ in...
Grounding VUNJA: Fieldnotes from my Journey to the Old ‘New World’
Vunja! [ten artifacts] Imagine other possibilities of being alive! Imagine ruptures and openings in spaces of suffering. Imagine other shapes and genres of being human. Imagine other futures! Vunja means rupture or breakage and also colloquially denotes ‘dance’ in...