Presence

To be present is to be and breathe in the practice. To be aware of where you are with your research, of the circumstances that produce the current situation, and to heighten this here-and-now - this situation- as a product of circumstances, by embodying it with full bodymind awareness. To be present is therefore always an ethical exercise, in the sense that presence is concretized through its mutual dependence on the circumstances that call it into being. To be present is to allow for the crossing lines of relations that go through the body to speak out, in and through that body.
Regardless of that body being physi-cal, virtual, organic or nonorganic, or simply a body of work. Regardless of the quality of the relations that cross this body: economic, aesthetic, geo-graphic, historic, affective, energet-ic, or otherwise. To be present is to open up "a multi-fold non-place of wonder, hesitation,...). It is practicing thinking, but thinking without permanently collapsing into fixations, identities, meanings, or sub jectivities" (Mala Kline). The ethical quality of this presence is expressed both in its emptiness, that allows for these relations to affect its being-in-the world. As in its minimal claim on agency, that is always performative, in the sense of amplifying or muting some of these relations that cross its body. Presence understood as such is both an affect and an affection, a being in its non-being, spiriting the world.