For our ongoing research residency into spatial and access intimacy, one aspect of our exploration is how to build respect for each others’ diverse embodied experiences in online contexts. What practices can we imagine to affirm our physical sensations and connections in digital spheres?

Our co-conspirator Camellia Dao-Ling offers a Qigong gathering to explore these ideas. This practice, which emphasizes embodied encounters and sensory attunement, becomes a radical tool for sensory affirmation in digital/hybrid spaces.

Through this gathering, we will use our bodies to explore, learn and reflect on digital/hybrid spatial and access intimacy. How can attuning to our embodied constellations – from our bodies’ key acupoints, to the webs of our ancestors, communities, and digital networks – help us foster kinship and care in online contexts?

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李道玲 Camelia Dao-Ling (they/she) is passionately engaged in an artistic practice of ancestral healing as community care. They share the Daoist medicines of their lineage to seed futures of Black liberation + indigenous sovereignty.

This is an offering of NAVEL + virtual care lab’s open microresidency project with The Bentway and From Later.