Tender Attunements

Presentation ca 40 min & publication

Tender Attunements is a continuous research project in embodied theory making. Our collaboration is based on a shared commitment to queer-crip epistemologies and corpo-literate ways of teaching and learning. The project’s quest is driven by the critical appeal to prompt unlearning in and of habituated knowledge practices acquired as academics and artists, as writers and singers, as teachers and performers. Tender Attunements strives to provoke relational forms of listening between ourselves and our audience, which draw potency from those aspects of our practices that are “ephemeral, evanescent, undocumentable, and unknowable” (Ben Spatz, What a Body Can Do). The aim is to set entrained forms of thinking, writing, listening, voicing and sounding in motion by creating situations of more sensuous social, political, personal and educational engagement. In Tender Attunements, theme/format and content/frame converge: they are meant to de-compose and re-compose one another.

Embodied Experiences: A corpo-conference on Art, Bodies & Identities
Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam NL
(2023)

Published in TOWARDS NEW SCHOOLS – epistemic shifts in art and design education: Essay 6
Extra Intra, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam NL