CHANTS OF SURVIVAL
Chants of Survival is a portal, for the creation of poems, stories, oracle's, myths and creative acts that aim to meet the complexity, grief, awe, hope, emergent possibility, unknowingness of our times.
Chants of Survival in itself, a radical revolutionary act, written by its own rule, to gather those that hear the call, that the revolution, will be poetisised. To transcribe and script and channel and oracle and bring through the texts needed for this moment of time.
ROUSING AND THE R(E)VOLUTION
‘We need to make space for poetry. We need to make space for poetry. What happened to poetry in discourse for the Revolution? The Revolution will be poeticize.
Please let it be poeticize. I look at discourse today and I'm like, where is the poetry? Tired, overused, vernacular repeated over and over. Stifles the flow of the poetic leaves no space for unexpected revolutionary acts. Unprogrammed ruptures all transpires. As the paralyzing virus intends, digital buzzwords freeze people in their tracks. Suddenly it is as if we each have to defend against charges rather than co-create space for a larger life force, a larger aesthetic. I'd like to see a greater commitment to poetic rhapsodic throwdowns to free us from the cinder block wall of modern discourse, the eastern block architecture of modern discourse, the struggle session of modern discourse for when a movement loses its poetry. It is a dire, dire warning.’
Josh Schrei, The Emerald Podcast
“We need to dare, to disturb the universe enough that the universe begins quivering back to us again. Poetry is the language that has the capacity to do this. We need to dare, attempt to rouse the revolution.”
TERRITORIES WE JOURNEY WITH
Each LIVING LANGUAGE space will be curated individually, with what is alive for that space at that time, but there are always key overall territories that we will be diving into together.
ACTIVATION
Activating Our Poetic, Lyric, Oral, and Imaginative Capacities.
Working with Lyric Authorship and Sonic Individuation.
Working with accessing the Soil of Our Humanity and The Body.
Working with non-verbal, and verbal language.
UNPACKING
Unpacking spiritual and psychological structures of thought and vernacular.
Working with embodiment and dissociation of language.
Working with voice, language and belonging within group situations and structures.
Working with recovering range of language and voice in body.
