The recordings in this series began as a sequence of journal entries between Azeezat Johnson, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Audrey Sebatindira and Shereen Fernandez. Our entries were feeling through our intentions and hopes in creating GEM as a space, and what Geographies of Embodiment meant to us.

A year later, members have both left and joined us. As a result the entries in this installation were written by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan and Azeezat Johnson, though we were always in conversation with others, too. Both of us are thinking through what it means to dream with our bodies, and how we might imagine worlds that tend to our different realities.

Importantly, we see the Embodied and Messy GEM Journal as an open-ended dialogue: we hope it creates opportunity for others to journal and share your own in-conversation pieces with us, too.

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Embodied and Messy - Part 1

The GEM CollectiveBy The GEM CollectiveDec 07, 2021