The Revolution is Knocking At Our Door
Photographer - Mario Framis Pujol
The Revolution is Knocking At Our Door
what happens
when architecture starts to crumble,
when our fundamentalism cracks,
when our baseline realities shake,
when the arrangement we were born into;
an apartheid,
which isolates bodies,
when the promise of stability
pulverizes.
when did we all sign up to keep this wheel turning?
when
were we told
to resist the new,
to be polite,
to be tidy,
to be pure,
to be clear,
to be predictable,
to be digestible,
to navigate all the isms?
18:23 & it’s raining heavily in Beirut,
an acid rain of despair
soaking the bodies
of the ones who look for refuge,
the ones
who can’t even see
how severely traumatized they are.
this emerging
is perverse,
there are no highways here,
no planes to take,
no pavement to walk,
on the dancing bridge.
the ones who know
will be waiting for us there
sucking their teeth.
a longing comes back
because I feel removed,
distanced from the story of love
that haunted my life,
the tears run down
without even knowing
where this vulnerability comes from.
seeing you on the other side of the screen
as the beautiful being
that soothes me in sweetness & warmth.
how can I be radically hospitable
without you being here,
without even knowing if you see me,
risking being where I truly am.
there are no solutions we can purchase
that can treat our misery,
that can heal the planet.
where is the attachment I have
to my identity
to the perpetrator who lives within me
what is in my body,
that my mind doesn’t know?
& as we dance
we’ll face the politics,
the question of how am I
being part of this revolution
that is already knocking at our doors.
Mario Framis Pujol is a cross-pollinated wanderer, who dances in the opaque, the chaotic, the tender, a being with the land... Their research-based practice circles around farming as liberation, politics as a crack, cooking as sovereignty, self-expression, vulnerability, and consciousness through intimate contact with nature, and creating open communal spaces for deep listening of bodily sensations. He dedicates their days to tending the land, as a farmer and as a facilitator to share his experience with multispecies groups who want to cultivate inner peace, learn from the natural world, and inspire themselves in the day-to-day, hence being able to focus our perspective, in aspects related to work, food, and social ecologies, through artistic harmony
