https://www.youtube.com/embed/DOczXaVyBpk Enemies of democracy have always manipulated feelings. Yet what we need today is a passionate defense of liberal democracy and the liberal order. We also need to embrace the feeling of loss and translate it into something positive and enriching, into a feeling about political community: empathy.  Read More »

Dear All,Welcome to The Listening Station.This is the place to listen to stories andto tell stories.You are invited to come in and listen orTo come in and tell me a story.Any storya funny story, a sad story,a story from the past, a story from today, a story of the future,your story, another's story, any story.I… Read More »

Audio Recording [sonaar_audioplayer albums="1748"][/sonaar_audioplayer] We cannot help but breathing. And still respiration is a movement, a rhythm and a nourishment, that changes with the stories we decide to tell about it.  Inspiration, Expiration, Co-spiration is a somatic lecture, an online class and a choral experience of practicing gas exchange together. Body Industrial Palace by Fritz… Read More »

Delivered at the inaugural Grand re Union online gatheringJune 20, 2020 Most of you have had a long commitment to activism, some of you have inspired my own, so I am not sure that I will be offering anything “informative” or revelatory, but perhaps this is a way to anchor us and to connect in… Read More »

[sonaar_audioplayer albums="895"][/sonaar_audioplayer] What is present for you in your thoughts, feelings, sensations? What is the question you are asking yourself these days? Write it down on a piece of paper and browse through a stock of magazines, newspapers, old books, flyers, teabags tags, random slips of papers, chocolate silverware that you already have. Notice what… Read More »

[sonaar_audioplayer albums="826"][/sonaar_audioplayer] This practice can be done anywhere, at any time you find you have a few minutes to spend with your breathing. Read More »

[sonaar_audioplayer albums="782"][/sonaar_audioplayer] Transcript Hello, Good afternoon, morning, evening – wherever you are in the world right now, listening, I  feel excited to be sharing with you my very first Audio Recording of Upwording, created for the launch of the online platform  of the international, intergenerational conference the Grand Re Union.   My name is Rivca… Read More »

https://youtu.be/1Ut0cjg6u84 Moving the Mirror is an ongoing improvisational performance project initiated by Peter Pleyer in 2016. It brings together dance artists from Warsaw and Berlin and it was performed in Warsaw, Wrocław, Poznań and Berlin. This video – as an alternative to a real meeting – was commissioned especially for The Kick Off Issue of… Read More »

pon., 13 cze 2020  liebe agata,my name is veronika blumstein. I live in southern california. such critical times here.  I’ve been gone for so long. how can I really know what’s happening there if I’m here and vice-versa.   peter says we must connect.i hear you are living in exile and making potent work in… Read More »

[sonaar_audioplayer albums="791"][/sonaar_audioplayer] Embracing Complexity introduces the concept of Radical Sociability; a strategy for enacting an intersectional affinity based politics. It is recommended to download the audio file and take a walk with it someplace where you will have little distraction, and hopefully some greenery.  This piece draws on my research and includes many references from contemporary writers. For… Read More »

https://youtu.be/QYK-HrT_Jzg Jack Halberstam, Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University, offered this lecture on The Rite of Spring by Nijinsky and Stravinsky at CounterPulse in June of 2020. Halberstam explores issues at the intersection of queer theory and wildness/modernity. This lecture is related to a chapter in Halberstam’s latest book, forthcoming in October 2020… Read More »

https://youtu.be/xiDQLO4Fpwc Dana Caspersen, Alice Sheppard, Bush Hartshorn, Márta Ladjánszki, Marta Keil, Andrew Morrish, Joanna Leśnierowska, Neemias Santana, Nina Martin, Rivca Rubin, Roshana Rubin Mayhew, Iwona Olszowska, Magdalena Przybysz, Mădălina Dan, Agata Siniarska, Romain Bigé, Marine Bikard, Natalia Gorzelańczyk, Michiel Keuper, Ka Rustler, Julia Asperska, Ania Nowak, Hasmik Tangyan, Konrad Kurowski, Marta Harasimowicz, Paweł Sakowicz, Filip… Read More »