About The Session
Dani d’Emilia’s work deviates from binary logics, especially those of gender and modern-colonial paradigms. Their practice explores performance-pedagogy as a site for political practices of healing. This art-life work investigates pathways to metabolic intimacy as an antidote to the illusion of separability.
In this session, they will offer a brief history of their work with Radical Tenderness, and introduce and open a conversation around a new project, Abscission. Rooted in Dani’s experiences of hysterectomy and neutral mastectomy, the project aligns personal processes of release with larger systemic rhythms, exploring how letting go can be both an act of regeneration and a threshold for transforming broader relational fields and reactivating visceral response_ability.
This talk marks the beginning of Dani’s residency at VSSL studio this December.