Convivial Acts for an Ecosensual Labyrinth |
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Authors: | Helen Billinghurst Phil Smith |
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Affiliation: | 1. Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth, UK helenbeee@hotmail.com;3. University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK |
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Abstract: | Abstract This paper addresses queer conviviality across Crab & Bee’s “Plymouth Labyrinth” project (2018–19); a 6-month activity including group walks, ritual sharings, group readings, postal art, poetry groups, site-specific dance, exhibition and making workshops. Based around convivial web-walking, the account examines how, through spinning out of collaborations and unfolding new forms, a web of work and activity was generated to support intensity and connectivity. The paper attends to queer aspects of conviviality, such as attention to unhuman partners, becoming-animal, simultaneity/plateauing in haecceity, dispersals of subjectivity and relations of threads (lines of desire) to web making. |
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Keywords: | Conviviality ecosensuality fictioning haecceity web walking world building |
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