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.
Wilds Beyond Climate Justice Joe Reilly Mother Earth’s Songs Collective Song Creation
Wilds Beyond Climate Justice [ten artifacts] 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 solutions.WBCJ Joe Reilly Mother Earth's...
Sanktuaree: Festival of the Invisibles!
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...
Vulture Harvest: The Slow Conversation
Vulture [ten artifacts] 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 off-line...
Vulture Harvest: Stories of Going Feral
Vulture [ten artifacts] 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 off-line...
Vulture Harvest: The 3D’s Gallery
Vulture [ten artifacts] 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 off-line...
Transmaterialities
Transmaterialities Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings [Karen Barad, Ph.D.] The point is not to make trans or queer into universal features and dilute their subversive potentials. The point is to make plain the undoing of universality, the...
Erring the Pathways
Erring the Pathways [Erin Manning, Ph.D.] Dr. Erin Manning – a part of the ten Visionary Council – shares a response to Báyò Akómoláfé’s article, Black Lives Matter, But to whom? In the erring, there is never a denial of origins, but there is a question of...
Be Ridiculous: Karen’s Reflections 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...
Composting the Frustration: Aerin’s Reflections 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...
The Underground Harvest: The Boring PDF (excerpt)
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...