Several hypotheses of anarchist bodies were evoked during the first session: recalcitrant, de-hierarchized, illegible, unfounded, desiring and overflowing. Far from creating new categories, this exercise in anatomy based on the works has revealed qualities, or faculties, that are open to free association.

This new session will explore the hypothesis of a ‘mutualist body’ in greater depth. In conversation with Catalina Insignares and Myriam Lefkowitz about their current project entitled la facultad, we will discuss the relationship between art and care, mutuality and mutual aid, a touch that cannot be regulated, and the reciprocity of knowledge, the possibility of making anatomy dance by exploring new cartographies of the body and an “ability to touch through others, others to touch through you, to touch others who touch you” (Moten&Harney, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study).
The facultad was initiated at La Galerie-centre d’art contemporain in Noisy-le-Sec, continued at Le Pacifique-CCN in Grenoble, and will be developed at Bétonsalon in the coming months. This “practice cabinet”, designed by Catalina Insignares and Myriam Lefkowitz, is aimed at exiled people and those accompanying them. It combines somatic, choreographic and energetic practices, sometimes influenced by tarot readings, hypnosis or telepathy – all mediums they use to experiment with other forms of relationship with themselves, others and our social environment.

“Through these sensory experiences, we can work together to invent ways of communicating through the body, imagination and memory – ways that are not dependent on language and that can be invented with our differences – not against them, not without them, but with them.
Art for la facultad would then become a place where we invent tools of communication and begin to tell other stories about who we are, where we are, and what the future might be.”