Planetary Embodiment:
Cooking With Words for Systemic Change and Solidarity
(Publication)
This publication documents five semesters of research and practice in the field of Planetary Embodiment, a study group and transdisciplinary artistic-somatic practice initiated and taught by Luïza Luz and guests at the Berlin University of Arts as part of Studium Generale between 2021-2023.
Engaging with ‘The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action,’ as suggested by Audre Lorde, this composition engages with the power of words in breaking silences, cooking dreams, and cultivating awareness of intersectional environmentalism.
The content was developed through workshops and lectures in collaboration with Andrea Galano Toro, gal sherizly, Denilson Baniwa, participants, and friends. In reciprocity for the causes we are addressing, the profits from this book are redirected toward initiatives supporting Indigenous, land, human, and more-than human rights.
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The publication includes 1) Thinking with words, foraged and defined by students and external contributors 2) Food for thought, recipes that activate the terms proposing ways to cultivate cultures of solidarity 3) Compost, a conversation between Luïza Luz, and Denilson Baniwa, besides the introduction, editors note, and contributors list.
Planetary Embodiment is available in public libraries in Germany, Amsterdam, Prague, and London. It is part of the permanent collection at the MET - Metropolitan Museum in NYC and can be found in bookstores like Printed Matter and Zabriskie Buchladen. It is also accessible digitally via Open Access through several universities and the digital archive of the Center for Liberatory Practice and Poetry.
Creative Direction, Editing and Design by Andrea Galano Toro, gal sherizly & Luïza Luz.
UdK-Verlag, 2023
73 pages
Riso printed by We Make It
20 × 28 cm
Planetary Embodiment: Being All Ears @ Refuge Worldwide, 2023 radio show | pre-launch | collaboration
From the classrooms to the radio, Planetary Embodiment beams quantum love frequencies to all ears 4 a healing planet. Delving into unnoticed details, activating all senses, breaking silences, and giving space to sink in: from hearing to tasting, from sensing to feeling, from bottom to top, side-to-side, sonically bounced, simultaneously, from the past, present, and futures. Beyond the surfaces. Beyond the end of this world.
In collaboration with __fungal9669 & O R S H I
Listen here
Tracklist:Bby Eco - *seeding*
Weste/Meitei/冥丁 - Espiral - 冥丁 Remix
+ gal reads a quote from “Quantum Listening”
ben bondy - awake now
Laposivy - Peixes Mortos
Asa-Chang & Junray/Jun Ray - Hana
Lucrecia Dalt - Seca
Langston Hughes - Dreams
Luïza Luz - SOUNDS OF PATRIARCHY
Audre Lorde reads A Litany for Survival
+ Luïza reads a quote from “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”
Meira Asher - Dissect Me
Kamilya Jubran & Werner Hasler - Yama
Sainkho Namtchylak - Order to Survive (Germany 2002)
Yoko Ono - Yes, I’m a Witch
WaqWaq Kingdom - WaqWaq Matsuri
Luïza Luz - THUNDER
Pet - Final Solution
Sanni Est - Transhuman
Arca - Nonbinary
ALOK - compassion
Sona Jobarteh - Jarabi
d’bi. - r/evolution is love (ft. assata shakur)
Djrum - Water Rising
Priscilia Ermel - Floresta
JEANNE LEE - Angel Chile
Sally Decker - Affirmation (ft. Briana Marela)
Bby Eco - Grow!
Expret from Sama The Divine Listening Room — Performance by Arshia Fatima Haq + Maral
Sinead O’Connor - Thank You for Hearing Me
From the classrooms to the radio, Planetary Embodiment beams quantum love frequencies to all ears 4 a healing planet. Delving into unnoticed details, activating all senses, breaking silences, and giving space to sink in: from hearing to tasting, from sensing to feeling, from bottom to top, side-to-side, sonically bounced, simultaneously, from the past, present, and futures. Beyond the surfaces. Beyond the end of this world.
In collaboration with __fungal9669 & O R S H I
Listen here
Tracklist:Bby Eco - *seeding*
Weste/Meitei/冥丁 - Espiral - 冥丁 Remix
+ gal reads a quote from “Quantum Listening”
ben bondy - awake now
Laposivy - Peixes Mortos
Asa-Chang & Junray/Jun Ray - Hana
Lucrecia Dalt - Seca
Langston Hughes - Dreams
Luïza Luz - SOUNDS OF PATRIARCHY
Audre Lorde reads A Litany for Survival
+ Luïza reads a quote from “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”
Meira Asher - Dissect Me
Kamilya Jubran & Werner Hasler - Yama
Sainkho Namtchylak - Order to Survive (Germany 2002)
Yoko Ono - Yes, I’m a Witch
WaqWaq Kingdom - WaqWaq Matsuri
Luïza Luz - THUNDER
Pet - Final Solution
Sanni Est - Transhuman
Arca - Nonbinary
ALOK - compassion
Sona Jobarteh - Jarabi
d’bi. - r/evolution is love (ft. assata shakur)
Djrum - Water Rising
Priscilia Ermel - Floresta
JEANNE LEE - Angel Chile
Sally Decker - Affirmation (ft. Briana Marela)
Bby Eco - Grow!
Expret from Sama The Divine Listening Room — Performance by Arshia Fatima Haq + Maral
Sinead O’Connor - Thank You for Hearing Me
Realized with the support of KKWV - Kommission für Künstlerische und Wissenschaftliche Vorhaben.
