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A living manifesto written by Dani D\u2019Emilia and Daniel B. Ch\u00e1vez\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
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Tenderness is to be critical and loving, at the same time<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to understand how to use strength as a caress<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to know how to accompany one another, among friends and lovers, at different distances and speeds<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is writing this text at the same time, from two faraway continents<\/span><\/p>\n \u2026from the same bed<\/span><\/p>\n Writing whilst caressing<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to know to say \u201cno\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Is to carry the weight of another body as if it were your own<\/span><\/p>\n \u2026is to share sweat with a stranger<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to dance among dissident bodies in a workshop<\/span><\/p>\n \u2026to be completely overwhelmed and maintain our smiles and celebrations<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to allow yourself to be seen; to allow yourself to be taken<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to not collapse in the face of our contradictions<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to not allow our existential demons to become permanent cynicism<\/span><\/p>\n It is to not always be the same, <\/span>las mismas, los mismos, les mismes<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Is to embody <\/span>in lak\u2019ech<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Because <\/span>you are my other me<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n And vice versa<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to not be afraid of fear<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to live ephemeral love<\/span><\/p>\n Is to invent other temporalities<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to embrace fragility<\/span><\/p>\n Is to confront others\u2019 neurosis with creativity<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to embody performative gestures that you would normally reject<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to assume leadership when your community asks it of you, although you may not know what to do, or how to do it!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to lend your guts to others<\/span><\/p>\n Is to wear your lover\u2019s pussy as a beard<\/span><\/p>\n Is to risk loving against the grain<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to believe in the architecture of affects<\/span><\/p>\n Is to find one another from the muscles closest to the bone<\/span><\/p>\n Is to believe in the political effect of internal movements<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to not insist on being the center of attention<\/span><\/p>\n Is to have peripheral vision; to believe in what cannot be seen<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to turn a tremor into a dance and a sigh into a mantra<\/span><\/p>\n Is to dissent with maximum respect<\/span><\/p>\n \u2026to transit in spaces you do not understand<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to accept the ambiguous<\/span><\/p>\n Is to not initiate all thought by navel gazing<\/span><\/p>\n Is to break with affective patterns, without clear expectations<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to share dreams, wildness<\/span><\/p>\n To tune in with, not just empathize with<\/span><\/p>\n It is to find a galaxy in the eyes of another and not break the gaze<\/span><\/p>\n To read the body of another as a palimpsest<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to channel irresistible energies and convert them into untaimable embodiments<\/span><\/p>\n Is to activate sensorial memory<\/span><\/p>\n Is to recognize the other by their scent<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to feel the possibility in every doubt<\/span><\/p>\n Is to allow yourself to be pierced by the unknown<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to give a narcissist the option of adapting or rethinking their position<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to embrace thorns<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is to coexist with lack<\/span><\/p>\n Is to face things head on by looking at them from the love of wanting to see<\/span><\/p>\n Is to sustain ourselves from distinct places though not all of them are \u2018beautiful\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is a concept that is appropriable and ever-changing<\/span><\/p>\n Radical tenderness is something<\/span><\/p>\n That is not necessary<\/span><\/p>\n To define<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dani D\u2019Emilia and Daniel Chavez (currently Daniel B. Coleman) are performance artists, transfeminist activists and educators who met in 2011 and collaborated on several transcontinental performance-pedagogy projects as core members of the collectives <\/span><\/i>La Pocha nostra<\/span> until 2016 (Dani from 2011, Daniel from 2014) and <\/span><\/i>Proyecto Inmiscuir<\/span> between 2015-17.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n They first encountered the term radical tenderness whilst working as part of <\/span><\/i>La Pocha nostra<\/span> (<\/span><\/i>LPN<\/span>). As ex-members of the troupe, with this manifesto they want to honor its origin and its continuous reverberation in projects they were\/are engaged with around the globe. This text was created as part of the research Dani was undertaking on radical tenderness within the context of an MA at PEI\/MACBA, Barcelona. It was born out of an online poetic jam started in 2015, in which they asked themselves what radical tenderness meant for them, in their lives and work within and outside of <\/span><\/i>LPN<\/span>. Can tenderness be radical? Can radical be tender?\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Dani and Daniel wish to thank all who have been part of this journey with them, particularly the founders of <\/span><\/i>LPN<\/span> who began using the term in the 90s, the various artists that have worked with the troupe <\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>and all who have participated in the multiple performance-pedagogy workshops in which they have been exploring radical tenderness from different perspectives and practices<\/span><\/i> throughout the years.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n www.danidemilia.com<\/span><\/i><\/a> \/ <\/span><\/i>www.danielbcoleman.com<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A living manifesto written by Dani D\u2019Emilia and Daniel B. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance","ediciones-loie-07","autores-francesca-carol-rolla"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loie.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loie.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loie.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loie.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loie.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4873"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/loie.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5097,"href":"https:\/\/loie.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions\/5097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loie.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loie.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loie.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}