Koyoltzintli, Spider Woman Embrace, 2019. From the series MEDA. © and courtesy the artist.

What does it mean to understand land not as something we own or occupy, but as something with which we share histories, relationships and responsibilities? And what might become possible when we move beyond familiar distinctions between humans and nature, bodies and landscapes?

Taking Autograph’s exhibition Our Bodies Have Been Bridges, which explores how bodies carry memory, ancestry and histories of displacement, as a starting point, this online conversation brings together anthropologist Marisol de la Cadena and writer, artist and scholar Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone to explore how Indigenous knowledges and Black queer feminist thought can reshape our understanding of the living world. The discussion will be chaired by writer and broadcaster Zakia Sewell, whose work re-examines British folklore, mythology and cultural identity, tracing how histories of migration and cultural exchange are carried through music, ritual and traditions rooted in the body.

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