Who is Zoe?[1]
Zoë is a vital force of empty chaos and absolute movement. She is an entity with multiple facets, she is kin, she is wise, playful and wants to live. She adapts to circumstances and holds her own even as she meshes with strange and unfamiliar forms. Zoë is a circus performance, ta da! And she is not, bom bohm. Zoe is tricky to explain. This is the best I can do for now.
Atomic-acrobatic meets rhizomic growth. Everything will be on the table as pressure systems accumulate. There will be unintended entanglements, strange consequences and it will be risky. Fungi, cloud, nest, dog: a snail trail of dis/grace, caught between the algorithmic devil and the acidified sea. It’s a logical response to the trans-species commodification of life that is advanced capitalism. There is nothing to get and all to consider. It’s time we had a meeting, to look to the future in intergenerational solidarity.
World, you are invited.
Thank you Rosi.
Several attempts at a succinct paragraph:
Zoe is on a trajectory to being externalised, she is currently involute, waiting in cyber space she shimmers on screens in creative zoom meetings and in documented videos captured between lockdowns.
Zoe is a speculative assemblage of relational, affective human and no-humans collaborating, during a global pandemic with all the ruptures of lockdowns, postponements, masks, and mandatory madnesses.
Zoë is a relational devising process of interdisciplinary artists, equally lingering; responsive to the emerging properties of acrobatic feats assembled with movement, text, sound, soft sculptures and projected image.
Zoë will be a live performance eventually.
Zoë doesn’t need you to like her.
Zoë can be abrasive at times
Zoë would like to join Camille, (thankyou Donna[2])
Zoë is internal and external atmosphere, microbiome, muscle and bone, surface, skin and trip hazard.
Zoë rejects the boundaries between situated practices and assemblages.
Zoe is growing well, thankyou.
Footnotes
[1] Braidotti, Rosi. Posthuman Knowledge Polity Press Cambridge 2019 Zoe p10 inspired by “the generative potential of Zoe” there are many references to Braidotti in creative writings throughout this research paper.
[2] Haraway, Donna, J. ‘Staying with the Trouble’ Making Kin in the Chthulucene’ Duke University Press Durham and London 2016, Camille Stories and the children of compost are also inspirational forces throughout this work.
In the Middle of Zoë 