Registration: dennis@reason-less.com
If you will take part of the workshop, please bring any material (tangible or intangible) that you’d consider “erotic,” “playful,” or “pleasurable.”
The program will be conducted in English, while being hospitable to other languages and encouraging mutual translations.
to tap, to lean, to twist, to warp
What’s the potential of the erotic —of play and pleasure— in planetary thinking? Following “the practice of cruising... as an ecological ethic” (Ensor, 2017), to tap, to lean, to twist, to warp aligns queer relationalities, such as nonverbal communication and multisensorial gestures, with nonlinear urgencies in ecological catastrophes.
Seeking other ways of articulating entanglements and critical encounters in climate change discourse, to tap, to lean, to twist, to warp explores methods of pine resin extraction, or “tapping,” in parts of the European Mediterranean prone to wildfires. The ongoing project follows resin workers in resin-based communities, including the regions of Castilla y León in Spain and Northern Evia in Greece, and their relations with the Maritime and Aleppo pine trees.
With research support from La Escocesa (Barcelona) and Onassis AiR (Athens), the event will share experiential outcomes from the initial fieldwork between Spain and Greece, a screening of a developing moving image work and a brief workshop.
program
Thursday 19th of October
18:00h - Research Presentation
Presentation fo the experiential outcomes from the initial fieldwork between Spain and Greece.
18:30 h - Screening
to tap, to lean, to twist, to warp (2023-ongoing) follows several resin workers in Northern Evia, Greece, documenting methods of resin extraction from the Aleppo pine, in the aftermath of the wildfires in August 2021. Between the resin worker and pine tree, the moving image composite shares the gestures and choreographies between vulnerability, adaptability and resilience.
19:00 h - Workshop
Exploring play and pleasure as methodologies in practice, the workshop will experiment with the concept of “swapping.” To swap, traditionally, is to make an exchange. In “swap meets” (or flea markets), for example, this exchange materialises as a buying or bartering of goods. But to swap, is also to qualify value: to discard the unwanted or leave the undesirable.
Materials for the workshop: please bring any material (tangible or intangible) that you’d consider “erotic,” “playful,” or “pleasurable.”
bio
Dennis Dizon (b. Manila, Philippines) is a research-based artist and writer. Their practice lands in intersections of technology and ecology. They play with rhetoric—in the spectra of the connotative—applying queer relationalities and decolonial practices through poetics and affective attachments. Dennis holds a Master of Research degree in Advanced Practices from Goldsmiths, University of London, with distinction.
* The event to tap, to lean, to twist, to warp presents part of the research developed thanks to research grant of La Escocesa 2022 call.
Image credits: Bob. to tap, to lean, to twist, to warp, 2023-ongoing. 4K video, composite detail, still. Courtesy of the artist.
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Registration: dennis@reason-less.com
If you will take part of the workshop, please bring any material (tangible or intangible) that you’d consider “erotic,” “playful,” or “pleasurable.”
The program will be conducted in English, while being hospitable to other languages and encouraging mutual translations.