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Vandana Shiva | Ecofeminism and the decolonization of women, nature and the future

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Forget Utopia. Ignore Dystopia. Embrace Protopia!

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Some proponents of protopian thinking believe that it can lead us to a better future. Others maintain we’re already living in a protopia.

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Thank you so much for the thoughtful sharing and time you put in to thinking about what might resonate for me. I have trained in Carl Rogers' approaches which underpinned most of my training, but am unfamiliar with Marilyn Atkinson's work and will explore.  Thank you also for A New Earth, I read it a while ago so it is a good reminder to come back to some of the great insights from Eckhart Tolle.

In response to your request for a provocation/challenge, I am sharing some work that might resonate, but also bring a new lens to the work you are exploring.

Kx

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On my travels I visited this performance and healing arts studio as my curiosity for the world of rope and what it means/who it is for began... for much the same reasons I share with you... healing and reverence

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Shibari is a form of bondage rope art from Japan. I see a lot of synchronicities with the work you explore... what occurs when we apply your questions of cellness, connection, networks, reverence etc to the body? the femme body? the sex worker? and so on...

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Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown

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Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown

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Continuing the legacy of Audre Lorde, octavia butler and many other black feminists is Adrienne maree brown - I feel a lot of kinship with this person and though I have not finished reading this book it has influenced my thinking greatly and may provide some context for the other works I share. In terms of how to read this text, perhaps try asking a question and scrolling to a random page to see what the wisdom is for you

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Dear Stefan

Thank you kindly for this gift. I feel quite emotional seeing how much thought and care has gone into this Padlet and I also feel the urge to say that it is okay to ask for help/a gift without the need for return. At least in that moment. We give what we can when we can and that is not always an equal process. But I truly admire what you have created here and your thinking around gifting and abundance. I am excited for the tone this is setting... our 'culture of gift and gifting'... long may it continue :) below you will find my provocations to you. It hopefully will chime with some of what you received in the package as a continuation of thought/rabbit trail...

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follow your pathway - scroll -> and <- up and down

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follow your pathway - scroll -> and <- up and down

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Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery

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Hildegard von Bingen The Cosmic Tree, or The Wheel of Life

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from: Suzi Gablik The Reenchantment of Art, 1991, pp-76-95

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Ufan, L. (2008) The Art of Encounter. London: Lisson Gallery
Serpentine Galleries., various pages scanned

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from: Marilyn Atkinson Creating Transformational Metaphors, 2013, pp. 146-151

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from: Eckhart Tolle A New Earth -Create a Better Life, 2005, pp.72-4

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Hi Lae,
my favorite pair partner 'in crime' for this unit ;-) First, thanks again for your generosity in sending me stuff over despite the tremendous expenses you had to bear. Considering your sense of spiritual growth and belonging beyond the sensual world and connecting all together, I was pondering how I could position myself in our mutual space of healing and reverence. The following (incl my painting above) might enable some positioning.

Stefan xx
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The love of God is so powerful that no one can just sit on it. It is bound to express itself. We have to think not just of praying together but how we can reach out and support each other in helping those in prison, the homeless, the hungry, the oppressed, everyone in need. Above all, direct attention to the most unbearable problem in the world today, which is the destitution of the poor. Jesus said: “The poor you will always have with you.” But destitution is something else. That is our responsibility. It is not God’s will.… The Spirit may be asking the Christian denominations to join forces with each other and with the other world religions in addressing human needs and social issues. The God in us is calling us to serve the God in others.
- Thomas Keating

from: Thomas Keating (2009) The Daily Reader for Contemplative Living: Excerpts from the Works of Father Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O., Sacred Scripture, and Other Spiritual Writings. Edited by S.S. Iachetta. New York; London; New Delhi; Sydney: Bloomsbury, p. 59.

Voices of Tranquility Gregorian Chants, at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m52fDOoLUks

The earth sustains humanity. It must not be injured; it must not be destroyed.
—Hildegard of Bingen

Hldegard of Bingen (1098-1179) , at: https://www.scivias-institut.de/index.php/hildegard-of-bingen.html

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see also video at. https://vimeo.com/150477132

from the Aare river in Switzerland, location Berne (46.98523155426954, 7.447133700097907) where I lifted 2016-18

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Hi Anh,
thanks for your sharing of a diverse practice. I am trying to understand better how our relation on a map might look like. I respond with elements of silence and ideas of performance. Perhaps this would allow me to position myself in our shared space of interaction and belonging?
I wish you good recovery and that you get well soon

Stefan xx
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Film 'Il grande silenzio, Die Große Stille' by Philip Gröning, 2006 => https://youtu.be/05NzeWWpqPs

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Susan Sontag  'The Aesthetics of Silence', in Rieff, D. (ed.) Essays of the 1960s & 70s.  New York: Penguin Random House Inc.,  pp. 292 - 319.

Derval Tubridy Beckett’s Spectral Silence -. Breath and the Sublime, 2010
link:
http://www.dervaltubridy.com/Derval%27s%20documents/cover%20scans%20of%20pubs/Tubridy-%20Beckett%27s%20Spectral%20Silence,%20Breath%20and%20the%20Sublime.pdf

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Hi Kai, thanks for your energy and momentum that resonates through space with a vibrating energy. Considering your question some weeks ago, "what is the artist's powerful "mutant" role as a confluence of so many overlapping contexts" ( a question I do have no answer at all) - However, perhaps the following prompts might be able to position myself in our mutual space

Stefan xx
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if player does not work, here at: https://vimeo.com/361611357

Nothing exists outside the marketplace - Barbara Kruger

And Polo said: “The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
- Italo Calvino Le città invisibili

Italo Calvino Invisible Cities, at:  https://www.are.na/block/11635412

Ufan, L. (2008) The Art of Encounter. London: Lisson Gallery
Serpentine Galleries.
=> see scanned pages =>

Suzi Gablik The Reenchantment of Art, 1991

=> see scanned pages =>
=> available at CSM library (https://libsearch.arts.ac.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=89944&query_desc=kw%2Cwrdl%3A%20The%20Reenchantment%20of%20Art)

https://thecaretaker.bandcamp.com/album/everywhere-at-the-end-of-time

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Hi Angela,
I can sense a mutual space in our practice and thinking through our exchange, letters, and responses. Some sources of positioning had been perhaps already established. Trying not repeat things but rather to expand, I hope that the following prompts might enable further to position myself in out shared space. A temporal space as things might change, a vibrating space of echoes and resonances.

Stefan xx
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Empathy as the foundation of intersubjective experience ... as the condition of the possibility of knowledge of the existing external world. (p.82)

In feeling, it (the subject) experiences not only objects but itself; it experiences feelings coming from the depth of its Self (p.117)

Edith Stein Zum Problem der Einfühlung (On the Problem of Empathy), 1916/2021

(more about Edith Stein:  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stein/)

Byung-Chul Han 'The scent of time : a philosophical essay on the art of lingering', 2009 (it is available at CSM library)

https://libsearch.arts.ac.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=927693&query_desc=kw%2Cwrdl%3A%20Byung-Chul%20Han

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Richard K. Nelson 'Make Prayers to the Raven - A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest', 1983 (see chapter scan =>)

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Hi Jumana,
though not clear in words, I feel some deeper resonance between our lives of intensities and vagueness and practices. Unsure, uncertain - just a felt sense. Our tomcats also appear to have something in common ;-)
I wondered how to position myself in our remote space - disparate but still.
Just letting my intuition flow, I hope the following items (incl my painting of a silent garden and sanctuary - for recovery) enable some positioning of myself in our shared space. For me, curating has to do with 'to care', and therefore my prompts of 'care'

Stefan xx

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The early sixteenth-century Enclosed Gardens or Horti Conclusi of the Low Countries (Baert, B. (2017) 'Revisiting the Enclosed Gardens of the Low Countries (Fifteenth Century Onwards). Gender, Textile, and the Intimate Space as Horticulture', TEXTILE, 15(1), pp. 2-33.), => see image taken from =>

A religious culture from the earth I was born from (Brabant). female spirituality and the Beguines (a typical low countries' culture of non-monastery religious communities (though later many became nuns, or paters). Mostly women (Beguines) but also men (Begarden) (Wiki at: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beguines_and_Beghards)

Last night
I begged the wise One to tell me
the secret of the world.
Gently, gently he whispered,
“Be quiet,
the secret cannot be spoken,
it is wrapped in silence.” - Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–1273)

you can access it here when choosing to login with the institution (University of the Arts London): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14759756.2016.1167374

Hobart, H. i. J. K. and Kneese, T. (2020) 'Radical Care: Survival Strategies for Uncertain Times', Social Text, 38(1 (142)), pp. 1-16.  at: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7971067
=> see pdf =>

Janine. Antoni  Loving Care, 1993 , at: https://artofbodymotion.wordpress.com/2016/06/19/janine-antonis-loving-care/

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Dobby, our tomcat. Here sniffing at the booklet 'The SGI Liturgy of Gongyo', a generous gift I received from Lae. Some of you discerned the sound of a purring cat in my audio message?  that was him! How amazing a soundscape can be void of sight and images

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Hi Katherine,

first, thanks for the shared space of experience for out mutual interview. Considering how you enjoy personality mapping, I thought 'The Creative Brain' might interest you.  Considering further how I position myself in the space with you, I mentioned during the interview my now favorite term agora (marketplace), I want to share a bit more on place, holy places. This might also be a reflection on the question you raised some weeks ago on "how artists translate elements in one culture/religion into universal elements and create shared feelings and resonations"

Stefan xx
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Ned Herrmann The Creative Brain, 1988/2008

=> see scanned book pages =>

Let’s open our eyes,
the slave is not one who is chained,
but the one who does not think
nor has convictions.
You are a citizen
not by the mere act of voting,
but by your vocation
and commitment
to build a nation of solidarity.

- Pope Francis, 2013

Lee Ufan on places as holy places:

„the places where dolmens stand used to be holy places for prehistoric people to figure their histories. A place where they felt the infinite external world, held and practiced all their rites of life and death, labor and play.“ Lee Ufan (p.257)

from: Lee Ufan Beyond Being and Nothingness: On Sekine Nobuo (1970–71), 2013

link: https://monoskop.org/images/a/ab/Ufan_Lee_1970-71_2013_Beyond_Being_and_Nothingness_On_Sekine_Nobuo.pdf

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Hi J,

thanks for sharing a space. We haven't had so much of interaction yet. However, considering your question some weeks ago "how to become an adult/how to stop worrying about the future". I could envision a space of imagination, a space where imagination and dreams and stories are playful and joyful. I looked back at my work with youth last year, and plans for this year. Incl the figurine (approx length of my fist) above that I made years ago during a deep and severe mental crisis,. This figurine helped me through touch to anchor me, keep calm, feel the ground - and not freak out or dissociate away. Perhaps, these things might enable me to position myself in our shared space of belonging.

Stefan xx

"She'll be drenched through", said Moominmamma. "Perhaps that won't matter much when one's invisible" Too-Ticky said and sat down by the table.
- from 'The Invisible Child', p.125

Tove Jansson 'Tales from Moominvalley', 1962/3 (see chapter scan =>

https://moomin.fandom.com/wiki/Tales_from_Moominvalleya
more about: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/01/tove-jansson-the-summer-book-50-masterpiece

LeDoux, J. E. (1999) The Emotional Brain - The mysterious underpinnings of emotional life. paperback edn. London: Phoenix. => see also at: https://stanford.edu/~knutson/ans/dalgleish04.pdf

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Kirsten: I've enjoyed reading your book chapter on psychosynthesis and coaching. There are many resonating aspects. Considering your questions some weeks ago on "creating conditions for vitality/repattering" and complexities. I thought the following stuff might work to position me in our shared space

Stefan xx
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One resonating aspect relates to Carl Rogers' Client-Centered Therapy (one link here: https://www.verywellmind.com/client-centered-therapy-2795999)
Three key aspects are foundational in the relationship of what I call 'holding the space':

Congruence and genuineness

Unconditional positive regard / appreciation

Empathy and empathetic understanding

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Marilyn Atkinson Creating Transformational Metaphors, 2013

Eckhart Tolle A New Earth -Create a Better Life, 2005 => see scanned pages =>

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Dwelling : shelter, enclosure, sanctuary

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Dwelling : shelter, enclosure, sanctuary

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a small figure expressing my being of belonging (Eros born of Chaos) during a deep mental crisis I experienced years ago

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A culture of gift and gifting. Thanks to Angela, I understand the multiple layers of gift (gratitude) and reciprocity (from Kimmerer 'THE SERVICEBERRY: An Economy of Abundance', at: https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-serviceberry/)

I understand the value of space of exchange and being during our interview encounter, thanks to Katherine. And the resonating energy of hospitality, of experiencing the 'role' of a guest and a host, one and the other, both together.

Yesterday, I contacted you all, one by one, with a support request. Afterward, I became aware of how utterly challenging and demanding this was. I feel in debts and feel I have made a debit. Reciprocity before a gift arrived?

Here is the space and the place where I can give you a gift.

What each of you receives here:
- one image / or a video of an artwork I created at some place and at some times in my life
- Some references: quotes, links, scanned pages from books.

I assembled everything while thinking of one of you at a time and as a personal gift. Nevertheless, I collected all together in this place (an agora? a public space?) to make it visible.

This is a fabric of a temporal encounters. Whether this is a map or a posistioning (of whom?) remains an open question.

I invite you to browse this place, see, look, think, and feel what else is here.
Personal gifts become community gifts of sharing.

Feel free to comment if you wish

=> scroll to the right, up and down, find your name -- and browse further. Have fun and enjoy xx