Kincentric Healing Justice and Art
Decolonize, decarcerate, demilitarize... and rebuild kincentric worlds.
About This Course
This interdisciplinary course applies arts praxis and arts-based research methods to the study of earth jurisprudence with two intentions; 1) to critique systems of injustice constructed by colonialism and capitalism at the level of the carceral legal system, the legislative strategies and policies that implement the law as a lever of change; and 2) to envision, imagine, speculate webs of co-existence, co-becoming that support mutual thriving of people and land (which encompasses the webs of beings living in relation to a place). The course is designed to develop skills of deep listening and and an ethics of consent and reciprocity to help us discern what is needed to build these new worlds of respectful relationality.
Following fish philosopher Zoe Todd’s call to center Indigenous laws and sovereignty, the course takes an unapologetically anticolonial approach to design and pedagogy/ andragogy. The majority of resources will draw on Indigenous knowledge and culture-keepers, BIPOC elders and activists, and Rights of Nature advocates working in solidarity with Indigenous environmental activists.
This course emerges from a collaboration between arts praxis and earth jurisprudence to co-create protocols that disinvest from coloniality/modernity and bridge partitions between humans from “the rest of nature.” Students will learn with and participate in ecosocial justice movements through poetics, interdisciplinary arts, social sculpture, legislative action and/or narrative arts.
Who Is This Course For?
This course is for creative organizers, educators, activists building a justice paradigm that challenges the colonial justice and legal systems—the carceral state—and opens up “the possibility of a refoundation of international law beyond states,” as Rigo and Montella write. This course is for those who wish to build forms of justice that affirm life, Indigenous kincentricity and reciprocity. It is for visionary makers, performers, writers, ready to embrace imaginative action to conspire towards a radically liberatory world.
What You'll Learn
- ✓Each student identifies their intelligences (Gardener, multiple intelligences) and how they learn best
- ✓ develop your own method to cultivate understanding and knowledge of different paradigms of jurisprudence (so-called “great jurisprudence”, feminist jurisprudence, earth jurisprudence, Indigenous jurisprudence)
- ✓articulate your inquiry… e.g. “how can I dance the tragedy of a massacre?” or “how would my banjo express the violation of earth justice?
- ✓Move your inquiry into actionable knowledge, create an artistic intervention grounded in your inquiry and findings.
- ✓ Choose to collaborate with colleagues in the course to create a group project (e.g. a digital archive, a score or script for a theatrical performance)
What's Included
Live Sessions
Interactive classes with your instructor
Session Recordings
Lifetime access to all recordings
Community Access
Connect with fellow learners
Certificate
Proof of course completion
Real-World Project
Learners/students will determine whether we work on a single project such as the production of a theatrical performance or co-create a project that has several elements such as a poetic play that includes a set that can be replicated as an installation piece in different contexts; and a web component that allows the project to expand.
About the Instructor
JuPong Lin, PhD
A daughter of Taiwanese farmers and brickmakers, JuPong Lin invokes the medicine of art and poetics in the struggle to rekindle kincentric worlds. She resides in Nipmuc homelands in Western Massachusetts, where she co-created The PeaceBirds Project, an arts-centered, movement-building initiative that holds space for collective grief as we witness atrocities committed near and afar, in Northeast USA and in the Levant. Her first play, Phoenix in the HolyLand, links local activism for a ceasefire in Gaza with the growing international movement against genocide. Writing this play reignited a fervent desire to decolonize, decarcerate and demilitarize the state apparatus—the modern nation-state. As a member of the Land Lovers collective, she is learning to embrace darkness and revel in migratory unbelonging.
Coming Soon
Pricing available when registration opens
Course Details
All courses include live sessions, community access, and direct interaction with the instructor.