Spore hosts: Promiscuous Infrastructures

A workshop with the Promiscuous Care Study Group on practicing care, grounding and ungroundedness, and building from the cracks.  

The workshop is based on the two newly published books Promiscuous Infrastructures: Practicing Care, and Utterances: Composing a Care-Informed Research Practice in the Cracks, which will be presented to the public after the workshop.

During the workshop, the group will facilitate a winter preparation ritual. Using excerpts from the two publications co-created by the study group, we ask: On which ground are we standing? How are you connected to the soil, and what are your differences and potential ruptures? What might be the common grounds for caring for the earth and each other?

Our study group offers an interactive experience that is all about tuning in. It starts with a grounding check-in, a short reading, and a discussion of various excerpts from publications on soil and its connection to rupture, violence, interrelatedness, grief, death, decay, personal history, solidarity networks, social justice, contamination, and toxicity. We then embark on an itinerant walk through the grounds, encouraging participants to consider and creatively improvise in whispering conversations within and beyond language. What questions might you ask the ground, and how many answers might it send back? 

This workshop is particularly relevant for people working in arts education, higher education, alternative education, group pedagogy, collaborative ethics, or otherwise engaged in social gardening, collectivity, embodiment, and transformational horizons.