Estuaries, in their shapes and dynamics, are metaphors and sites for the re•evaluation of values. These learning processes are necessarily embodied in situated theories and practices. Estuarian learning processes are itineraries that expand categories of inclusiveness within the human and with the more-than-human.

The Coastal Reading Group hosts readers from different literal and metaphorical coasts who trouble the subjects of wilderness, speciation, humanness and ways of knowing through diverse engagements with non-humans.

House of Time is an association of theorists, researchers, artists, and writers who share an interest in the topic of temporality. Primarily focusing on intersections of time and digital technicity, environmentality, historicity, embodiment, and subjectivity, HoT aims to make critical interventions through seminars, talks, essays, artworks, and ongoing reading groups.

‘Walking as ontological shifter’ is an intentional practice of walking, a medium that maximizes the conditions of possibility by which our subjectivities may be transformed from dualistic perceptions and conceptions to embodied forms of understanding that are non-dualistic[3].

Gallery representation in New York.

In the winter of 2015/2016, the Coastal Reading Group began to formulate questions about how to grieve the staggering loss of non-human species and their ecological habitats that are passing away during this historic, geologic, cultural moment -- in what Donna Haraway and Jason W. Moore call the "Capitalocene". Our initial questions revolved around what relationships have passed unnoticed in this new epoch of extinctions, and whether it is possible to grieve these passings. We wondered (if we could in fact grieve)...

The art collective Coastal Reading Group hosts collaborators from different coasts (Bibi Calderaro-The Graduate Center, CUNY, NYC/Margaretha Haughwout-Colgate University, NY) troubling the subjects of wilderness, speciation, humanness and ways of knowing through engagements with (non)humans.

In 2016, we conducted a socially-engaged project that explored how to grieve the loss of non-human species and ecological habitats that are passing away during this historic, geologic, cultural moment, and indeed if this is possible, considering late capitalism prevents a reckoning with relational ecologies beyond-the-human. Collected natural materials implicated in the adoption of sedentary agriculture and settler-colonization became documents of ecological transformation. Participants were invited to handle them while telling stories of connection and disconnection. At dawn, we buried our materials.
For Knowledge/Culture/Ecologies, we propose an experimental video that expands ideas around historic natures, grief and the more-than-human, the temporalities of living, dying, yet-to-live -- weaving footage, text and images from our event.

"Walking the Land where Fountain Avenue Begins" is an essay commissioned for CSPA's Quarterly issue #26, guest edited by Claire Qualmann. In it I recount a story of restoration of a landfill in Brooklyn NY and the access given to the surrounding communities during a walking tour.

“Walking as Ontological Shifter” bifurcates from an aesthetic social practice, tending towards pedagogy and healing. Walking as intentional performatic act is forwarded as medium to research how the virtual is actualized and returned to virtuality. It engages parallelisms and contact points between the time-based, neuroscientific concept of Reentry (Edelman and Tononi) and a Deleuzian speculative philosophy whereby the possibilities of difference from repetition are explored. I critically explore how the body is site of integration of the epistemological (cognitive and pre-language affective processes) and the ontological (being and becoming), while it is site of the transduction between ‘self’ and ‘world.’ Complex relationships between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ are explored from a post-thermodynamics, neo-cybernetics perspective, via physical immersion in ‘green,’ ‘natural’ spaces where the conditions of possibility for these meetings to occur at a slower speed and softer touch are maximized. New conceptualizations of a dynamic understanding of subjectivity as it pertains to human and more-than-human relationalities are examined under the hypothesis that epistemic shifts about different concepts of time may be reflected ontologically—as embodied cognitive and affective processes, in non-hierarchical, non-anthropocentric relationalities.
This is a speculative model for difference that engages the spiritual/individual as it inhabits the political, and vice-versa. Walking is a medium that counters the speed and turbulence of today’s human-environment relationalities by instilling a slower pace grounded on the materiality of absorbent matter as found in ‘nature.’ The conditions for these processes to occur softly are here maximized, challenging pathological/volatile temporalities produced by today’s big data environments.

past present and future involvement with Holes in the Wall Collective

As self-declared Artists in Residence for the US Government, the Institute for Wishful Thinking (IWT) believes that the community of artists and designers possesses untapped creative and conceptual resources that could be applied to solving social problems. With this in mind we invite proposals from artists, architects and designers for residencies at government organizations and agencies at all levels.

A link to some papers.

here some of my latest thinking~writing

Cartografía de obras visuales expandidas de artistas mujeres, lesbianas, travestis y trans de Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru y Uruguay en el S.XXI.

[Una iniciativa de los proyectos de investigación de la UNA - PICTO Artes Visuales expandidas y feminismos. Estrategias emancipatorias del presente desde el sur del sur (2023-2025) y Políticas de los cuerpos y poéticas feministas en las artes audiovisuales y visuales del Sur de Latinoamérica en este siglo (2021-2024)]

Gracias Lucía Seijo!