Sanctuary of the Sensuous

a sympoetic experience

How do we expand our perception and awareness beyond a reductionist view of ‘nature’? How do we recognise interspecies relations as meaningful with liveliness and nuance without cutting ourselves out of them? Sanctuary of the Sensuous offers an invitation to explore ways of listening to the more-than-human landscapes, with which our existence is entwined and is inseparable from. The experience invites to walk together the circles of ecological intimacy, sensing and extending into inner and outer ecologies inhabited by pluralities of organic forms of sensitivity and intelligence. It proposes to expand into radical attentiveness to sensuous information, to relationalities, to quieter voices, and to find nearness with the natural environments as a process of larger self discovery, where new ways of multispecies togetherness become possible.

During the experience participants are guided to engage with the subject through impulses, readings, embodied awareness practices, outdoor explorations, thinking-through-making, foraging, collective cooking, and other ways to nurture a sense of place as relationally constituted. It unfolds in one of the following formats:
a 4h workshop,
an audio walk,
a day long collective practice (Woods in the City)

Impressions from previous formats:
Bard College Berlin, Bode Museum, Botanical Garden Pankow, Co-creation Loft,
Grosser Garten Gerswalde, Krater Ljubljana, Spazio Corsivo,
University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde,
WerkStadt Arts Union, the outdoors