breathe imperative

As we are becoming post-humans, we carry the uncertain qualities from this pace, that makes us constantly think, and the tranquillity of the mind is challenged as a result.

Marcus Coates uses meditation as part of his practice of unconscious reasoning, to go deeper into the stage of activating the unconscious knowledge by interacting with his spirit animals, an interesting realm that is not experienced in the mundane. Investigating that behaviour through performances is what I would like to explore further.

In Dasein for Design, ‘thinking through the body becomes an important part of how we conceive of design : it is not an act of thinking and then making but rather it is thinking through making’ (Wendt, 2015) therefore thinking about the potentiality of the body where it holds our consciousness, and visualising through performance making, is to think about future spaces - this lead to my idea meditati- 7 on nests.

Bringing spirituality to our future state of being is necessary in order to reunite humanity, and thinking with animals is a way to simplify and slow down the current pace, as we are not able to see the problems of globalisation nor think about what it is that separates us from the divine. In order to link culture to nature, we could re-frame the existing structures we have and build upon them.

Doing so, biomorphic structures; human-designed structures that is aspired from natural materials might be a way to link nature to culture, and a possible way to think about a utopian future with the fluidity of beings; human, animal, machines.