a teaching rationale & philosophy that cultivates attention and presence, listening and process in search of movement and to meet from within.
Inuit writer artist and throat singer, Tanya Tagaq writes in "Split Tooth", of letting newts sleep under her tongue and emmings nest in her hair.
These are the expanded ancient capacities of the expressive body-in-the world, where throat-singing is singing with newts under the tongue and resistance to human prejudice and cruelty is voiced in an embodied sensuous human-animal language that is earthed and iced and black-winged••••
••••Tagaq, Tanya. Split Tooth. Toronto: Viking, 2028.
Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection is: Strauss, C. F. (Ed.). (2021). Slow spatial reader: Chronicles of radical affection. Valiz.
slow learning.........
as a wandering through research,
as errant lines.
as a spiraling desire that is porous
meeting on a threshold,
waiting,
attending to dilations of time,
as fractal journeys,
ebbs and flows.
expansion.
portals and chemical trails,
wander lines,
worlding weavings of plant skins and
animals, critters, creatures,
human to non-human.
next of kin.
living membranes.
tension.
disturbances.
entangled.
slow approaches to spatial practice and pedagogy.
odd-kin.repair.
REPAIR.
we listen, move, speak
to find what is lost
is an art
a practice of moving with care and attention
through place and mark-making,
in many languages and situated perspectives.
a poetic relation
looking at whiteness
between the cracks
to find what is lost
and what is remembered.
blackness, indigeneity and terrafilia
IN THE RHIZOME OF
collective imagination.
exploring how we think about and engage with space
at a range of scales, tempos and durations of spatial experience,
far reaching into the cracks of the earth as
a form of worlding.
special thanks to: Derek Brueckner, University of Manitoba for the invitation to collaborate with the students of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada.
The layout of this website and the running texts are inspired by writer, researcher and creator of the "Slow Research Lab" in Amsterdam, Caroline F. Strauss, Dr. Erin Manning of the (3) Ecologies Institute, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada and Yoruba poet and thinker, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe. Always, always, the poetics of relation of Édouard Glissant. Fernand Deligny, Deleuze & Guattari......and the kinship with my dog, SKYE & SIMBA, my feline .
The art of fieldwork for future ecologies is also about holding space together with my husband, Rudy Keller in Alhaurin el Grande, Andalucia, Spain and to my beautiful, strong daughters, Fionna & Chelsea and my granddaughter, Mia..
And finally, my students....you keep me enlightened, grounded and motivated with hope for the future of this planet.
In honor of Abraham Hurtado, a friend, a mentor, a curator, a dancer, a mystic and a lover of life and animals. You are missed by so many of us who worked & created with you. Rest in Power, Abraham. Centro Negra AADK, Blanca, Murcia, Spain and Expanded Spaces, Nea Livera, Greece.