A panel discussion organized by Mariella Greil, daniela brill estrada, Monica LoCascio and Rychèl Thérin Scott.

(LEADING POEM)

Hey Alexa,

Give me unaggregated answers felt with your fingertips, observed with your eyes, tasted on your tongue, touched with your toes, brushed against your skin, sung from your grandmother, smelt on the street.

There’s no phones at the table. Can we just speak?

WHAT DO WE KNOW WHEN WE AREN’T PLUGGED IN?

(POEM END)

Reflecting on how far Western systems of intelligence creation and taxonimisation have extrapolated embodied knowledges from the process, how do we now look to prioritise and preserve the body, the thinking vessel, the soul and our humanity within knowledge making?

The practices of Greil, brill estrada, LoCasico and Thérin Scott all prioritise embodied knowledges from varying standpoints – embodied knowledge as movement, embodied knowledge as research, embodied knowledge as taxonomy, embodied knowledge as inheritance, embodied knowledge as ethics, embodied knowledge as native, embodied knowledge as gut reaction, embodied knowledge as power, embodied knowledge as anarchy, embodied knowledge as community.

The panel will offer thoughts, artworks and investigations on how craft as a method of creation serves as an exploratory research modality, and how it contributes specifically because it is RITUALISED, rather than DIGITISED. What risks emerge when the body is excluded from decision-making, knowledge-making, problem-solving, and investigation in general in the age of AI?

Registration required: rychel@toadhall.cc