An exploration of transformative justice through guided meditation, a picnic and a workshop with June Yuen Ting. Part of Artist Archive.
Abolitionist Kinaesthetics is a movement research that began with a desire to learn and practice collective care, mutual aid, community accountability and transformative justice — to build relationships that make prison and police obsolete. Asking questions such as:
How can movement practice be a method through which
we body forth a world without prison and police?
How do our bodies teach us about taking accountability,
addressing harms and working through conflicts?
What is an abolitionist way of moving?
For this Live Archive, June Yuen Ting invited audience to experience this research through:
- A meditation room to dive into the embodied sensations of transformative justice through an audio installation co-produced with Zinah Mangera-Lakew.
- An abolitionist picnic to have conversations on the meanings of safety, care, accountability and justice beyond punishment and disposability. A gathering around food, conversation prompts and flip-chart pads to imagine the world otherwise.
- A movement workshop with Jeremy Guyton and June Yuen Ting for a movement research workshop that revisits and remixes some of the generative practices drawn from the archive of Abolitionist Kinaesthestics.
Events
Live Archive: Abolitionist Kinaesthetics – 2 June 2022
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Responses
“Thank you so much June, for the glimpse into your past work and a possible future.”
“I was able to have moments with myself, moments of discussion and moments in my body… it allowed me to be part of this world again.”
“An offering that was so unique and well considered.”
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Photos from Kim Chi Le and Amelia Tan. Click to enlarge.
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Credits
June Yuen Ting
June dreams of another world that is already here — a world, or worlds that are so expansive, so abundant and so immanent that the confines of colonial capitalist modernity cannot hold. June dances, organises, agitates and grieves. They wake up everyday yearning for transformation — for rematriation, redistribution and revolution. They want so deeply for all those who survived European imperial violence a chance of loving one another against the colonial imperative of heteropatriarchy.
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Jeremy Guyton
Jeremy is an alchemist, dreamer, instigator, new world conjurer, director, choreographer, scholar, and teaching artist. His current creative practice is a messy play date with his inner child god. Credits include: Solange Knowles, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Kesha McKey, Leyla McCallah and Kiyoko McCrae, Maya Taylor, KM Dance Project, Junebug Productions, B.U.K.U. Dance Krewe, and Goat in the Road Productions.
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Zinah Mangera-Lakew
Zinah Mangera-Lakew is South-East London born and based movement artist, facilitator and yoga teacher. She believes that embodiment practices like movement and yoga should be accessible for all. Her other interests lie in inclusive arts practice – she creates and facilitates work in community settings. Zinah incorporates radical self-care into her creative practice and believes that doing so is a critical form of resistance that can help to offset the effects of living through oppressive environments.
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Research Credits
This movement research has been undertaken in collaboration with Renée Bellamy (2023), Jeremy Guyton (2021-22), Tuesdae Houston (2023), Shao Shin Frieda Luk (2021), Zinah mangera-lakew (2022) and Francesca Matthys (2023)