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.
Harvest From Listening Sessions With The Emergence Network
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...
Meet at the Crossroads: Fugitivity Through Stillness
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...
Meet at the Crossroads: A Final Note from Aerin, Báyò and Yeyo
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...
We Will Dance with Mountains: Vunja! Live Session Libations (2023)
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...
The Wilds Beyond Climate Justice: Closing Ceremony Harvest
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...
Rolê-Holi Project Description
Rolê-Holi [ten artifacts] Reflections from ten curator Suélen Brito from her experience working on Rolê Holi – a project of (re)connection in the search to break the artistic barriers imposed by the Brazilian colonialist system and to research the cultural expressions...
Cracks Leading to Systems Change
My guest today is Báyò Akómoláfé (Ph.D.). Báyò is rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to lje, son and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books,
Contemplating Postactivism: Reframing Our Approach to Social Change with Báyò Akómoláfé
On June 16, Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé (renowned philosopher, writer, activist, professor of psychology, and international speaker) joined us to discuss his novel concept of “postactivism,” which invites us to move beyond the binary thinking of “us versus them” and engage in more nuanced, open-ended, and transformative ways of addressing social and environmental challenges.
Folia de Reis: Festival of Kings
Rolê-Holi [ten artifacts] Reflections from ten curator Suélen Brito from her experience working on Rolê Holi – a project of (re)connection in the search to break the artistic barriers imposed by the Brazilian colonialist system and to research the cultural expressions...
Bate-bolas: Thunder Messengers
Rolê-Holi [ten artifacts] Reflections from ten curator Suélen Brito from her experience working on Rolê Holi – a project of (re)connection in the search to break the artistic barriers imposed by the Brazilian colonialist system and to research the cultural expressions...