10 Oct 2025
18:00 - 20:30
Family Embodiment Programme: Ritual 2 - Water Bodies
The Family Embodiment Programme is a monthly ritual, organised by artist Sun Chang, that opens up the question: how do we become family, and how do we create diverse forms of kinship (family/ies)? It is tailored to an intersectional community of queer and BIPOC migrants, inviting participants to explore feelings of (un)belonging and to practise care and temporal kinship together. This ritual is titled Water Bodies: Speculative Writing and Coining Kinship Lexicon.
This second ritual centres on the process of speculative writing to coin a new kinship lexicon – a systematic language for an unbound future family. This session is focused on our Watered Bodies and the fluid intelligence they hold among ourselves and geography. We will identify, connect, and regenerate a living lexicon of family vocabulary, one that guides us into imagining and cultivating a new world of kinship in your own situated and wishful way. We invite you to engage in deep listening to your body’s memories, feelings, and personal experiences of powerful family words. The session includes a grief ceremony of releasing the unwanted narratives and colonial legacies embedded in those words, embracing instead the transformative visions held within the natural element of water. We will collectively write and map this emerging lexicon, envision a radical hope for our shared family worlding.
This experimental ritual programme is pedagogically consulted by Neo Musangi, a queer feminist writer, researcher and artist living in Olkejuado, Kenya. They will share their decolonial knowledge of speculative writing in the framework of this ritual and with the group. The pedagogy is designed to gently guide in discovering and affirming your own voice, language, and method of expression. No prior writing experience is required. The ritual serves to reconnect the feelings and emergent language that your body holds.
The Family Embodiment Programme is a space for group healing and community resilience, centred on BIPOC migrant voices. We practice through radical rest, intentionally disconnect from (re)productivity demands and reconnect with your body’s wisdom, feelings, thoughts, and community. We invite you to imagine and cultivate a more-than-human family by de-linking from and re-rooting away from white-supremacist, colonial, capitalist, patriarchal, and heteronormal nuclear-family culture. You are welcome to participate in whatever way feels authentic to you, whether that’s through sharing or simply by being present with the group.
Dates & Times
The ritual takes place every second Saturday of the month, during the natural transformation from day to night.
Friday* 10 October, 18:00 – 20:30
Saturday 8 November, 16:00 – 18:30
Saturday 13 December, 15:30 – 18:00
Saturday 17 January, 15:30 – 18:00
*Please note, the October ritual has been moved to a Friday.
To keep the group intimate, the ritual’s maximum capacity is 15 people. Register here.
Collage visually edited by Sun Chang, featuring the ‘Tearing Mother’, illustration by Enaam and the Speculative Family Map element by Sun Chang.
This event is in English. Admission is free.
The space is accessible for those using wheelchairs, strollers, or other mobility aids, with a lift available for those who cannot use the stairs. The ritual is held on a floor setting with cushions, but chairs are available if required. Vegan snacks are provided by Isa.
This is a research project led by artist Sun Chang, developed in collaboration with Framer Framed. It is supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and het Cultuurfonds. The ritual space holds co-creations from its participants. The incense sculptures Scentscape were created by Enaam, Isa, Kirti, Linus, Margo, Nardelly, Sonja, Sun, Sterre and pedagogically consulted by Sophia Simensky, as part of the welcoming ceremony for the programme; the hanging fabric installation Wind House were created by Eddie, Echo, Jinxiao, Jiwon, Les Lie, Min, Nikki, Sun, and Wang Xue in the first ritual.
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