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.
Dung Beetles: Working Groups
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 Wilds Beyond Climate Justice: Opening Remarks
The Wilds Beyond Climate Justice [ten artifacts] 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...
Dung Beetles: Offerings on the Shrine of Lostness
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...
Dung Beetles: ten Metaphors
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...
Vunja! Party (2021)
Vunja! [past ten events] 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...
Vunja! Sonic Collage, Musicscapes, AfroRhizomatic Dance (2022)
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...
Steal a Way Photos
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...
Intro to The Trouble and Joy of Coming Together: An Essay on Nepantla
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...
Guest Hosts
Meet at the Crossroads [ten artifacts] 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...
ERIN MANNING on the Choreography of Neurodiversity
For the Wild On the Choreography of Neurodiversity [Erin Manning, Ph.D.] Blending theory, practice, and fascinating cultural vision, this week’s conversation with Erin Manning calls into question the systems and practices that keep us stuck.Blending theory,...