Repair as Shapeshift
Online Lecture by Bayo Akomolafe | ‘On the Wolf’s Trail’ – Session 6
May 14th, 7-8pm
Hangar Online on Zoom
Lecture in English
No registration needed
This lecture will be moderated by Margarida Mendes as part of ‘On the Wolf’s Trail’ Research Program hosted @Hangar
Can we risk a consideration of repairing as fixing problems, as pulling things together, when everything is falling apart? As white stability hollows out, it seems critical to investigate the notions of care deployed in the gesture of repair. In this talk, Dr. Akomolafe rethinks repair as ‘re-pair’, as pairing again, as a sensuous, posthumanist, alliance-building inquiry that calls for different kinds of experimentation at the edges of the colonizing force called the “Human”.
Bayo Akomolafe is a writer and lecturer from western Nigeria, currently living in Chennai, India. The convener of the concepts of ‘postactivism’, ‘transraciality’ and ‘ontofugitivity’, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is a widely celebrated international speaker, teacher, public intellectual, essayist and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak.
As Visionary Founder and Elder of The Emergence Network and Chief Host of the widely popular online-offline course/festival series, We Will Dance with Mountains, Bayo curates an earth-wide project for the re-calibration of our ability to respond to civilizational crisis – a project framed within a material feminist/posthumanist/postactivist ethos and inspired by Yoruba indigenous cosmologies. He considers this a shared art – exploring the edges of the intelligible, dancing with posthumanist ideas, dabbling in the mysteries of quantum mechanics and the liberating sermon of an ecofeminism text, and talking with others about how to host a festival of radical silence on a street in London – and part of his inner struggle to regain a sense of rootedness to his community.
Bayo Akomolafe is a recipient of the 2021 New Thought Walden Award, meant to honor those who use empowering spiritual ideas and philosophies to change lives and make our planet a better place.
‘On the Wolf’s Trail’ Research program curated and mentored by Margarida Mendes
“On the Wolf’s Trail” is a programme of sensory practices and lectures focused on decolonial ecology and restorative justice that explores pedagogical formats to debate forms of collective repair, restoration, resilience, and healing. Along four years, sessions will be led by practitioners from the fields of arts, environmental humanities, and post-colonial studies, and embrace topics such as mutualism and reciprocity, working towards the repair ancestral relations.