:¨ ·.· ¨:shelters·.· ¨:`· . `· . 𐙚 transtemporalities
Trans temporalities is a community research and art space cultivating ways to experience time in opposition with hegemonic, forward moving lines by Ali Novello and Irene Lombardi. Trans temporalities is about sitting with our feelings together, building, organizing, eating together, learning how to build things and plant them.
Practicing trans temporalities goes beyond reimagining histories and the future, as we want to feel them in our bodies, in relations with other humans and non-human animals and nature around us.
The topic is shelters: how to build an emergency shelter, what does it feel to make one, inhabit it, share it with others and being inside it.
In the first part we built the refuge with wood, vines and materials we will find; then we moved on to a somatic movement practice, bringing awareness into movement. Afterwards, we had a community dinner together and have a cute little woods party.
Why an emergency shelter?
Because to 𝒻ℯℯ𝓁 community and 𝒻ℯℯ𝓁 sheltered we need to learn how to actually make it with our hands - enter the woods and ask for refuge.
In the first part of the event we will practice building an emergency shelter from scratch, looking for tree trunks, branches, vines, then constructing a structure and making it habitable.
Through assembling the shelters we practice one way of learning how to survive building a relationship with the space and each other based on mutual respect and consent instead of extraction.
Somatic practice
In the second part of the performance we will move inside their shelters and we will start to inhabit them. Through a somatic practice using movement and sound we will feel how our bodies and perception of yourself and the space changes. Will it feel like a continuation of the space-woods or will we start to inhabit a different reality? How will our bodies react to being inside a refuge of our own? How does the body respond? How will it adapt to this different ‘container’? How does a shelter feel?
Somatic practice is about bringing awareness into movement. It means moving the body with intention, allowing gestures to emerge from within rather than imposing them from the outside. It’s a deep listening that involves the body, the space, and their relationship.
Likewise, becoming aware of the space around us – its emptiness, supports, and boundaries – transforms how we perceive and interact with our environments. Exploring a space is the first condition for feeling safe within it. By moving through it, sensing it, we start to inhabit it.
Building shelters, entering them, exploring them with the body, becomes a way to ground ourselves, to feel, to connect.
Shelters is an invitation to move, inhabit, and dance together in these spaces. The final rave grows out of this shared practice: dancing in deep listening to repetitive sounds helps regulate the nervous system, release tension, and create coherence and presence. It’s a return to the alive body, in connection.
