kroužek intersekce: How do our bodies remember the landscape?

📍The Tent
Language accessibility: the text is in English, but the meeting will be conducted in Czech
Reading: Clare, Eli. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation. South End Press, 1999. (Selected passages, mostly from the first chapter “The Mountain”)

Free entry

How do our bodies remember the landscape? And how does the landscape remember us? Two hours of reading together, listening, and slowly reflecting on texts that connect environmental destruction, queer experience, corporeality, care, and lived experience in a world organized around performance and production. We’ll begin with a group somatic exercise and a return to a place in the landscape that has sometimes evoked a sense of closeness, relief, or connection within us. We’ll observe how the landscape inscribes itself into the body—into our breath, memories, and ideas of home. From there, we will move on to a group reading of excerpts from Exile and Pride by Eli Clare and to questions about what devastated landscapes have in common with bodies labeled as too slow, dependent, sensitive, or “useless.” The gathering will be the nexus of a reading circle, collective meditation, and political imagination. We will move between personal experience and broader structures of violence in the landscapes of central Europe as well as in visions of a world based on mutuality and care. Come to listen, read, rest, reflect, and spend a moment being present in a different way. No prior knowledge of the texts or theory is required.