Site/Citational Practices

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Site/Citational Practices: Beyond the Land Acknowledgement
By Karyn Recollet

How do I greet you and express gratitude for this day- this moment of us breathing together, we wonder how far back and forward the shapes of our gatherings flow.

We tend to our fine tuned, and enduring practises of showing up to create together a collage of spatial and time scales to future ancestor/ kin attending to the deep legacies of livingness and connections to land in Indigenous and black diasporic ways of knowing – and unknowing. We show up because how do you site/cite a future ancestor or a map that hasn’t yet been drawn?

We gather to create these spaces of relationality in alignment with future oriented gatherings, the insights of which we gained from the fall and the pull upward- our tentacular gestures transform us into capacious becomingness.

We are here for the sustaining conversations around Indigenous being and becomings in relation with our more- than- human kinships, where memory and genealogy spiral to curate and create an unknown, and a not yet, a speculative and hopeful set score of gesture, sonics, choreographies of landing.

Our relations exceed, spill, and expand kin as part of our land-ing practice as we embody expansive genealogies that are sometimes unruly as we land into space- falling into relation with the black holes- the terra formation of infinite possibilities. We fall over and over again breathing through an atmospheric that feels like both pressure and release.

This is the time for a becomingness, intentional gestures towards an elsewhere, we invite you into a series of provocations, an ‘otherwise’ space with the trust and assurance of being ethical witnesses- practising deep relationality sans extraction. This, a visionary space that co-creating together – developing a citational practice – might include the feeling of the moment of the telling/ the witnessing/ the receiving alongside capacious choreographies, sonics reclaiming a series of gestures from future ancestors and past kin that continue to shape our existence.

We ask “what does it mean to hold space, when we really consider that our constellatory relations, and that matter in between us – is star?”

Perhaps holding space means leaning into another’s frequency- being open and responsible to each other’s frequency as a form of care. 

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