A TEMPORAL TUNING FOR TENDER TIMES

At the invitation of the Green Bee, this workshop was a participatory exploration of GEOFADE’s experimental research into unruly temporalities and attending to bodies beyond the human. Utilising processes of deep listening and responsive movement sequences, this workshop invited participants to seek out and contemplate the radical alterity of geologic, aquatic, avian, vegetal and atmospheric presences supported by, and living within the Birrarung (Yarra River). The tuning process referred to in the title refers to the intent to challenge colonial ideologies and assumptions and shift awareness into ecologic, relational spaces. Beginning with the tempos of the human body, participants spent time cultivating awareness for the unique attributes, movements and tempo’s held by multispecies presence on site.

Attempting to heighten receptivity, cultivate care through attention, participants explored how movement might be used to‘tune’ themselves to more-than-human presence at beginning of a practice, or arrival at a site. What gestures and sequences help us to reach towards languages, choreographies and temporalities beyond the human? How does response and repetition foster space for new relations to emerge?

This workshop was delivered by Devika Bilimoria and Luna Mrozik Gawler as GEOFADE.