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.

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Devora’s Prompt Schedule:

• Week 1. Tuesday, October 1st – Monday, October 7th
• Bound to earth (attached to earth / indigenous to a place - starting point)

• Week 2. Tuesday, October 8th – Monday, October 14th
• Without warning (the event threatening this attachment)

• Week 3. Tuesday, October 15th – Monday, October 21st
• Scorched (earth/ person / leaving fast)

• Week 4. Tuesday, October 22nd – Monday, October 28th
• Unsettled (out of the settlement, instability, worry)

• Week 5. Tuesday, October 29th – Monday, November 4th
• Scatter (moving in different directions, thoughts are scattered, from cohesive group in one place to spreading out)

• 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)