Healing Exercises: Inherited and (e)merging women’s knowledges for collective learning and interspecies connections
We believe that the global eco-social crisis we are living in is a consequence of the separation of the human from what is called nature and an organisation of the reproduction of life based on exploitation and an unlimited extraction and depletion of the planet. Capitalism imposes ways of relating based on abstraction, disaffection and the very denial of our entanglement with the Earth and all the beings that inhabit it. To sustain continuous accumulation, capitalism has suppressed many knowledges, ways of life, modes of sociality, affections and stories, which have been intentionally designated as primitive or threatening. From indigenous modes of communication with nature, to women´s healing practices, to the intelligences of animals and plants, they have all been subjected to different degrees of erasure through countless forms of violence often in the name of progress and civilisation.
In the face of this crisis, we want to claim and reimagine women’s knowledge and practices of healing, as tools to enlarge the field of relations between all beings that inhabit the Earth and explore the possibilities of more-than-human solidarity and kinship. This will guide us to develop new methodologies that allow us to bond and embody our interconnectedness to reenchant our relationship with the world and overcome the anthropocentric paradigm.
Throughout our program for 2023, we will consider a plethora of practices, histories and philosophical paradigms through which to understand and explore healing. The program comprises several projects, which include workshops, presentations, walks, dinners, interviews, rituals and encounters. We will produce a film and a publication documenting these projects and activities. In addition, we will experiment with methodologies for reaching diverse participants and collaborators. Departing from each member´s initiative and curiosities, we will engage with movement, mourning, voice, body-environment relationship, fortune telling and collective learning.
HEALING EXERCISES events
This program is kindly supported by Necessity.
Mouries Collective 