Iridescent Institute of Desire

Queer B-Cademy: Emotional Space Age

The Iridescent Institute of Desire (IID) invites anyone to join a multi-sensorial attunement and to become part of a communal soft installation.During this encounter, the IID proposes for each participant to simply be, (self) listen, vibrate and connect, hoping to create a moment of spontaneous kinship and social closeness. IID hosts spaces informed by queer/crip intimacy where regenerative somatics are embedded in poetics.

Canopies of Care opens a time/space for relational listening, to attune and momentarily sync to one another. The space facilitated during the QUEERB-CADEMY holds and comforts anyone that composes it. It takes the shape of a listening session with sound, spoken word, smell and visuals in which IID explores relational methodologies to facilitate a liquefying timespace. The installation is entirely made out of repurposed and donated materials, rooting itself in circular practices. Canopies of Care wishes to foster intra-relational knowledge making, in which somatics and poetics emerge and weave, rendering the world sensible in other ways.

Prepare yourself to get comfy and to drift in otherworldly flows... sink for an instant in reflection and submerge in radical empathy. Feel free to reach out about any specific need(s) you might have as the Institute would like to host the space with care. The Iridescent Institute of Desire is an artist-run research network, focused on decomposing the notion of stable structures and (re)imagine collaboration from the perspective of an eternal event of »desiring«. It acknowledges change as part of a process and wants to propose shapeshifting viscoelastic trans*formative structure(s).

The IID is particularly interested in looking into alternative ways of being, thriving and shimmering and to simultaneously facilitate spaces that socialise desire and conflict, share knowledge and develop kinship. Currently, IID is developing transformative methodologies of care and irisation based on somatic listening, supported softness and pleasure acting, away from patriarchal modes of socialization.

The Iridescent Institute of Desire understands wellbeing as int(ra)-dependent and facilitates creative and critical spaces to activate healing and regenerative processes, aligned with social justice. Its intention is to actively participate in disrupting, de-binarising, changing, trans*forming, recycling, composting, (de)conditioning and decolonizing western capitalist society, by facilitating movements to destabilise the dominant and oppressive system(s) in place. To desire is to be in »touch« and touch the »other«: to trouble the self.