We dance with one another, we reinvent ourselves through one another, and we both disappear in the labyrinth of our dance. Our dance is a collection of many moves and many games, old and new. We are many invented moves and many reinvented games, including that of being married.
Sofya Shaikut – I am a performative artist, butō dancer, and writer working at the intersection of contemporary philosophy and educational politics. I explore dance as a practice that enhances our potential for transformation vis-à-vis the eternally recurring forces that make and unmake our lives (love, hatred, tenderness, strife…) in the persuasion that like this we can creatively re-situate ourselves amidst the worlds we build and in relation to the earth in which they are rooted. Among the different teachers with whom I have trained, those who influenced me the most are Atsushi Takenouchi and Imre Thormann. You can learn more about my work here.
Carlos A. Segovia – I am an independent philosopher and diagrammatic artist, born in London and currently based in Berlin. I work in contemporary philosophy in relation to questions of meta-conceptuality, contingency and worlding. Among my publications, Guattari Beyond Deleuze: Ontology and Modal Philosophy in Guattari’s Major Writings (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) and Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism: Rethinking the Earth–World Divide (with Sofya Shaikut; Brill, 2023). As a diagrammatic artist, I have worked, published and presented publicly my work, among other topics, on the reciprocal presupposition of earth and world and the dynamics of openness and closure in contemporary thought. I have also done ethnography on Amazonian and Bantu conceptual worlds and taught for more than ten years in higher education. You can learn more about work here and here.
Write to us at sofyashaikut@gmail.com & segoviamail@icloud.com
