An inquiry exploring the possibilities and limitations of cognitive, affective, somatic and land based art-life practices, for ‘staying with the trouble, with the difficult learning across place, time, and historical-political contexts and of learning how to ‘be and become otherwise’, and for living-loving queerly.

Invitations to work on:

• interrupting our internal inscriptions of systemic relations that perpetuate separability 
• attuning to an even wi(l)der queering of intimacies among all being(s)
• re-tu(r)ning to the ‘exiled’ and colonized abundance of possibilities for love, care and response-ability among all our relation

The Re-fusing practices are an embodied artistic methodology for co-sensing with nonhuman beings, exploring protocols to help us refuse colonial ways of sensing and perceiving the more-than-human world in order to re-fuse with our capacity for deep listening and care. Queer metabolics is a critical approach to this work which attempts to inject a deeper decolonial sensibility and practice into queer ecology and a more expansive queer sensibility into modern-decolonial thinking.

How can we be in service to healing the personal, social and ecological wounds of the modern world? How do we ‘stay with the trouble’ and pleasures of being entangled?

The first iteration of the Re-fusing practices took place in Gerês, Portugal, in 2021, as a collaboration between Dani d’Emilia, Sarah Amsler and Fernanda Eugenio. This material refers to the landscape of themes and a first protocol mapped in that context, in which the artists engaged with embodied experiments weaving Queer/Cuir Relationality with Radical Tenderness and other Pedagogies of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective as well as  the AND Lab collective.