coco damah (collective containers for desire and maybe also healing) was an embodied project in collaboration with Kamryn Wolf, Master of Divinity student at Union Theological Seminary, that explored the power and ephemerality of desire. Our primary manifestation was 5-6-hour in-person, individualized sessions, and the creation of audio recordings and photographic images through these extended rituals. We offered these personalized rituals in a curious, responsive, body-positive, queer and playful container. We practiced collapsing the binaries between receiver/giver, dominant/submissive, fact/fiction, therapy/art, past/future, sense/nonsense, abled/disabled, while considering aesthetics alongside and inseparable from the potential for personal and political transformation.
