🌟 [Knock, Knock! Who's There?] 🌟

📍 Your Emotional Monster

Emotions are the tenants residing within your body: they are joy and sorrow, grief and anger, depression and mania, and sometimes, they are entirely nameless.

Although they—he, she, it, or them—have never been your enemy, we rarely pause to say hello to them. As a result, when we suddenly meet face-to-face, it can feel unfamiliar and uncomfortable.

Let us use this workshop to dialogue through tactile exploration, where different materials collide and wrestle with one another. We will attempt to transform these formless emotional monsters into tangible, physical entities—allowing us to reacquaint ourselves with them and become good neighbors.

What will we be doing?

1. From Outside to Inside: Pause your outward gaze to rediscover the emotional tenants residing within, re-sensing those neglected voices inside your body.
2. Surrendering Language: Lay down words and written language, using your body and physical materials to negotiate a communication of emotion and touch.
3. Manifesting Emotion: Transform formless emotions into tangible, tactile objects that can serve as anchors for your feelings.

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About RiK
With a background spanning fine arts, art education, and curation, RiK views creative practice as a physical support for the void between emotion and the body. By switching from daily, mechanical default modes to a deliberate "manual mode," he negotiates and wrestles with materials to manifest invisible internal wear-and-tear into grounded, physical testimonies. His work focuses on how artistic practice can stretch open spaces for inner suppression, establishing coordinates that allow one to retrace survival within the material realm.

This event is part of c.95d8's “Crip Community Space Building” project. c.95d8 Crip Space provides a free venue for crip artists to host events. The Crip Community Space Building project is funded by the Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund (SIE Fund) and supported by Impact Incubator.