Melissa Harrison STSM at Instituto Media, Vilnius

A series of texts were interwoven with movement and improvisational scores, speculative-worldings, and vignettes. The shape of an idea is woven by these different fragments or invitations to perceive and practice our selves, socialities, and spaces in novel ways; unravelling the modes by which we (un)consciously shape and are shaped by one another, the material environment, and planetary living matter as a whole.

The scores were experimented with in an encounter/workshop, held with the public at SODAS 2123, which aimed to expand the field of socio-spatial commoning and think about/with the body — alongside its entanglements with other bodies, human and non-human — on which our own bodies depend. These relational aesthetics were explored through various invitations and embodied modes of navigating visibility and audibility, resonance and refraction, collectivity and retreat in encounters of care-full commoning.

Image credit: Laurynas Skeisgiela