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EcoSomatic Protocols of Kinship is that kind of walking experiment. Walking as being, knowing, doing, failing, connecting. It is reclaiming walking as: a method of inquiry and knowledge gathering; a process oriented field lab; art experience over artifact that helps us acknowledge different lived realities, different ways of being and knowing. Walking that re-connect us with a more than human world around us. Enacting these protocols you are engaging in world-making, exploring shared technologies of the self (“Technologies of the Self: A Seminar With Michel Foucault,” 1988) such as walking or deep listening. You are walking home, exploring yours and others knowledge around and within you, (re)discover of the self and other. Walkers are writers of stories, places and spaces that shake us, teach us, comfort us, connect us, transport us, thus walk slowly in small present yet imaginative steps.
Patterns are helpful. Scientific, generational, natural, social, inherited, but they can also fail us. We are bringing to light effects of certain long kept patterns. Patterns of unsustainable world making, colonizing and oppressing because our agency lies in the ability to change and invent patterns.