Framer Framed

8 Nov 2025
16:00 - 18:30

Family Embodiment Programme: Ritual 3 - Repair Speculative Kin: Stitched Immunity in Bodies, Borders and Boundaries

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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 relationships and temporal kinship together. This ritual is titled Repair Speculative Kin: Stitched Immunity in Bodies, Borders and Boundaries

We live in bodies marked by the constant stress of acceleration, systemic neglect and colonial legacies. We exist within borders and boundaries – both personal and geopolitical – that inflict constant structural violence, leaving us and our non-human kin worn, frayed and facing constant threat of extraction.

Following our work to redefine kinship, this third ritual focuses urgently on repair – the essential family keyword that was registered in the Kinship Lexicon in the past ritual. It is a core principle that has emerged to our continuous practice of familial embodiment. This is where we transform personal trauma into collective immunity by working with our Speculative Kin – the torn, stained community fabric, which we encounter as the communal flesh that holds our shared ritual memory. We dive into our body to listen to its discomfort, then closely observe what our Kin needs. This practice refuses the logic of capitalist quick repair. Instead, we use our creativity, originality and imagination to forge a situated support – our Stitched Immunity.

This Stitched Immunity is a visible, collective act of sustained maintenance and mutual holding. It directly challenges the body politic – the systemic othering that constantly polices the boundaries of ‘self’ from ‘other’ embedded across our systems and our skin. We replace exclusion with a commitment to radical acceptance and collective resilience, creating a physical testament to our shared H(er/they)istory and structural care relationships.

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.

Saturday 8 November, 16:00 – 18:30
Saturday 13 December, 15:30 – 18:00
Saturday 17 January, 15:30 – 18:00

To keep the group intimate, the ritual’s maximum capacity is 15 people. Register here.

Fig. 2 “Repair” as Essential Family Keywords, photographed by Sun Chang. The definitions were written by belit and Jack registered in the Kinship Lexicon in the second ritual.

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.

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; the kinship lexicon Water Bodies: Speculative Writing & Coining Kinship Lexicon, was co-authored by belit, Denden, Echo, Isa, Jaadu, Jack, Jiyoung, Less Li, Neo, Qianyu, Sophia, Sun and Zaynab in the second ritual. 

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Sun Chang

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