What does rebodying mean to me?
Shared by VANESSA CLARK
What does rebodying mean to me? As an artist, researcher, and teacher, gathering, as a feminist common worlding practice, has allowed me to explore what I call rebodying in teaching. This rebodying includes, for example, the intelligence and logics of walking the earth, the curiosity of hands meeting objects, the knowing of feet on the ground, the questioning of reaching, the bending of arms and legs over tree stumps, the holding of matters of concern in the heart, the guts to walk down certain paths, the ethics it takes to decide when and how to pick up certain ideas and when and how to let others drop, the importance of feeding the spirit. The pedagogical practice of rebodying through gathering allows for attunement to the relational processes and embodied situations of engaging theories. It creates small conditions for moments where communities explore the responsibilities and obligations of walking, balancing, and thinking together.