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New research points

Just coming back from watching ‘Water Makes us wet with Beth and Annie Sprinkles, thinking:

  • filling condoms with water and leaving them in the ground looks like frog spawn, inspired by some Pocha Nostra work that filled a bathtub with this, very surreal. The material carried light well and if I filled the condoms first with a small object, they’d definitely look like things that

  • love, love of the earth and Extinction Rebellion style prayers and thanks for the life giving force. Just like in how I lead my workshops, after a meditation exercise thanking the body for carrying us around and all of the help that is gives us

  • having an educational element that’s bigger is going to be key for me, whether that’s

    • about green burial and what goes on there

    • ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’ style facts on how divorced we are from the body and it’s decomposition through embalming, make up and other practices

    • biological facts

    • participatory walking ritual like how we did in my Royal Albert Hall events

Lots to think about but happy to be nailing down some material thoughts and practices!