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Dieuwke Boersma

I am a practitioner of divergence, who turns black holes into disco’s to give rise to new energies, experiences and forms of thought. My hope is to create moments and momentum in which the possibility of another world feels real and appealing. I want to unleash a mental revolution. I do so by changing cognitive maps of experiencing the world and use forms of thinking that are in the present logics of today recognized as “naive”, “wild” and “childish” and outcasted as a regressed form of thinking In my practices I reclaim their relational attunement to the world that in the hegemonical ways of thinking and education are lost. In retracing them, I develop enchanted adventurous practices that invite and make people think and study together with and within our cosmic surroundings in deviant fashion. Consequently, my praxis calls into question, the standardized ways of knowing and play with the preconditions of value and recognition, subvert social conventions, seek to affirm that intellectuality comes in many forms and will state over and over again that “there can no be social justice without cognitive justice”.

I have currently the following practices, see for more: www.denkfiguren.com

Diffracting Worlds

Sanatorium Octopussy Conceiving a Tentacular Conciousness, Ludwig Museum Cologne, 14 july 2018

With diffraction glasses the spectator has another look at reality, one beyond mirrors and representation and I show the entanglement of all organisms, creating a new experience of reality that embodies the importance, of openess, magic, and care.

Fictioning Alternatives

Fictioning Alternatives is a form of storytelling that creates alternatives to the dominant fictions that make our post-truth, populist and the Anthropocene a reality today. This practice creates new communities and forms of belonging and give voice to the fragile state of the world, without anthropomorphizing it.

Wild Thinking

Wild thinking interferes with the performative neurotypical and violent imperative of being civil in presenting and generating our thoughts in academic institutional settings. As a result, wild thinking reclaims wild not as unmanageable, or just being too much. Wild thinking opens up other forms of knowing, by moving, shocking, stuttering, and stammering, allowing childish behavior, precarious bodies and dressing up to come into the arena of knowledge production.

Body Anarchiving

My body, like yours, is an anarchive. It is not solely an archive that holds memories, or experiences that belong to the human generations before me. My body like yours can be activated in other ways and make different kinships. I activate my monstrous, animalistic, non-human traces to put my body in new iterations, to explore the limits of community in Western imaginations and encounter my vulnerable self without interruption.