Co-radical togetherness

What could our ways of being together look like differently?

Four beings explore. With an understanding implanted within us of the phenomenon of love and friendships, of mechanical social manners and ritual processes, it seems as if we already know how we are supposed to encounter one another. Examining forms of togetherness and relationships shaped by patterns and power structures that assign certain roles and keep us trapped in them is profoundly political and opens up spaces for action. Because wherever norms are silently accepted, left unnamed, and not brought up for (re)negotiation, violent logics remain intact and appear unchangeable.

How do people practice encounters free from hierarchical and violent structures, and find a social reality in which it is possible simply to be—one where different forms of self can be lived and expressed, in all their contradictions and incompleteness, beyond any logic or demand for linearity? Instead of either/or, a both/and. This is a research project deeply inspired by Şeyda Kurt’s book Radical Tenderness, in which the autors search, attempt, fail, and observe what is present and what could be.