precarious_practice

When we eat together, our bodies, in a state of digestion, can be seen as a dismantling of our subjectivities as we reconsider what is whole, stable and in our control. Lucid dreaming can allow for a form of collective awakening; for instance, from fantasies of the past, where the unconscious body recalls and repeats resistance. In returning to contested sites that have been paved over repeatedly throughout history, Tanaka urges us to both physically and mentally enter these tug-of-war spaces where monuments and bodies become sites of living political struggle. How might this cyclical impasse of struggles for power be overcome through collective acts of destabilization and realization, or, eating, talking, and dreaming together in public? What can we learn through art history, revisiting ourselves, and visiting sites that we do not perceive through nostalgia but by learning and relearning our agency within them? Over the course of the night, through exchanging experiences, the temporary company of roving participants attempt to arrive at mutual visions of the future with the help of archives as active repositories of possibilities we might hand over to later generations.