kroužek intersekce: Where does the landscape end and the body begin?

📍The Tent
Language accessibility: The text is in English, but the meeting will be conducted in Czech. Queer and crip friendly.

Reading
✦ Clare, Eli. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation. South End Press, 1999. (Selected passages, mostly from the first chapter “clearcut: explaining the distance”)
✦ Oubramová, Eva. Co zbývá? (What Remains?) Literární salon, 2009. (Selected poems)

Free entry

Clear-cutting and fish farms in the forests of Oregon, the old town of Most, and the landscape of northern Bohemia, which has been devastated by mining and urban demolition, raise similar questions. What do our bodies remember of the places we come from? And what traces of us remain inscribed in the landscape? How does the experience of loss, uprooting, or closeness imprint itself on the way we inhabit our own bodies and the spaces around us? We’ll begin with a short somatic group exercise and a return to places that have sometimes evoked feelings of relief and safety but also distrust. From there, we will move on to a collective reading of excerpts from the book Exile and Pride by Eli Clare, an American pioneer in queer studies and disability studies, and poems from the collection Co zbývá? (What Remains)? by the Czech poet Eva Oubramová. The gathering will be a blend of a reading circle, collective meditation, and political imagination. We will move between personal experiences and broader structures of violence, among vanishing cities, forests, and memories, between loss and the possibility of other forms of mutuality and care. No prior knowledge of the texts or theory is required; we will read all of the passages collectively on the spot. Come to listen, read, rest, reflect, and spend a moment being present in a different way.