Displacement Codes: Contemplative Performance and the Climate Crisis
Karina’s written responses are delayed by 1 week and end one week after the last prompt (December 31st – January 6, 2025). Links to the responses will be added each week.
Devora’s Prompt Schedule:
- Week 1. Tuesday, October 1st – Monday, October 7th
- Week 2. Tuesday, October 8th – Monday, October 14th
- Week 3. Tuesday, October 15th – Monday, October 21st
- Week 4. Tuesday, October 22nd – Monday, October 28th
- Week 5. Tuesday, October 29th – Monday, November 4th
- Week 6. Tuesday, November 5th – Monday, November 11th
- The weight of it all (carrying objects, trauma…putting some if it down and leaving it behind)
- Week 7. Tuesday, November 12th – Monday, November 18th
- Wrapped in loss (the things/ people/ places / elements of culture that were left behind, there’s a weight to the loss that wraps around you, like a heavy blanket, like a snake, suffocating)
- Week 8. Tuesday, November 19th – Monday, November 25th
- Fading (while the load is lighter, you start fading as well, identify endangered, place of origin is further and further away, fading to the view and memory)
- Week 9. Tuesday, November 26th – Monday, December 2nd
- Carried by currents (moving across water physically, but also being carried by political and social current that decide where you might end up, loss of control)
- Week 10. Tuesday, December 3rd – Monday, December 9th
- Endurance (enduring, persevering, keep going)
- Week 11. Tuesday, December 10th – Monday, December 16th
- The last of it (last stop, what’s left from what you were carrying, last portion of ration/ energy)
- Week 12. Tuesday, December 17th – Monday, December 23rd
- Exhale (every time I hear Exhale I think of your work on exhaling Devora; letting it out; healing…)
- Week 13. Tuesday, December 24th – Monday, December 30th
- The wind remembers (the memories remain, wind unites people who are scattered, telling the stories, wind of change)