How do extractive systems shape us? And in what ways are we complicit? Dear DAI alumni Aldo Ramos (DAI 2018) and Teresa Borasino (DAI 2005) held a week-long gathering with Quelccaya, Post-Extractive Futures, and Pluriversity Weavers, immersed in a deep process of collective un/learning, sharing emergent, relational, intuitive, ancestral, and embodied practices and stories. On Thursday, 30 January they opened their process to the public sharing a body-territory cartography practice, relational readings, and deep conversations about the ways artists, researchers, and activists, (and as those who do not adhere to any of these containers) respond, show up, and move through the violent times we inhabit—with responsibility and discernment.
Together, Weaving Towards Post-Extractive Cultures examined:
🌕 How do extractive systems shape us? And in what ways are we complicit?
🌗 What is ours to do—as participants in a more-than human world?
🌘 How might we practice different ways of world-making that move beyond extractivism?
🌖 How do we work through its ruins?
🌑 What skills, knowings, and seeds might we nurture through storms and collapse?
We are presently digesting and fermenting what was shared, slowly picking up threads to create new moments for co-learning and unlearning. We care deeply about practicing ways of resistance to oppressive conditions of our time—relationally, together, in difference without separability.
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