wild philosophy: raving, running, reading
2018
Artists' retreat, Capel y Graig, Furnace, Wales
I designed and facilitated Wild Philosophy: Raving, Running, Reading. Permaculture design was used as a tool to fuse communal living, raving, walking, deep listening, being naked and punk approaches to reading. The work deliberately worked at intersections and edges to find ways of living and creating with intensity and vulnerability.
This took place over one weekend and was for people who identify as women/non-binary. The weekend was somewhere between a residency and a countryside retreat, taking place in a converted chapel (Capel y Graig) in the Snowdonia National Park in Wales. Over the course of a weekend (Friday evening to Monday morning), seven women shared a house and a chapel, and cooked communal meals. The DIY included experiments in radical listening, naked rambling, collaborative life drawing and accessing “the erotic”, raving, subverting hierarchies and reading woman philosophers and theorists.
Wild Philosophy: Raving, Running, Reading was developed out of the Live Art Development Agency’s DIY programme of professional development for artists and supported by Chapter Arts Centre.
Reading List:
“Radical Listening: A Manifesto” by Soofiya and Andry from Strike Magazine Radical Pedagogy issue 19
https://strikemag.org/radical-listening-a-manifesto
“Introduction” from Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice, by Pauline Oliveros
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Deep_Listening.html?id=yzL3QjZpFoUC&redir_esc=y
“Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power” from Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Sister_Outsider.html?id=r3Ct8Qw3de8C
“Walking After Midnight: Women, Sex, and Public Space” from Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/332360/wanderlust-by-rebecca-solnit/9780140286014
“Concrete Flowers: Contemplating the Profession of Philosophy” in Hypatia Journal by Kristie Dotson
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01176.x
“Rhythm and Matter: In Praise of the Dancing Body” from Strike Magazine Body Issue 18, by Silvia Federici
