NSISIM

NSISIM Studio is a slow burn practice of ecological embodiment


Volume i: Courses
Weaving
Time
Nature
The Web
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nsisim manifesto -> NSISIM...

✿ means ‘spirit’ in bulu, cameroon

✿ emerges from an imagination that weaves, moves, dances between the personal, the political and our environment

✿ is for the curious who wants to expand their knowledge and expanse of the world

✿ is for the researcher who wants to dive, deepen, and scour the internet for archeology

✿ for the empathetic critic who wants to dismantle, re-envision, and put back together

✿ for the compassionate collaborator who respects, adds to, and co-imagines solutions & visions

✿ for the visionary worldbuilder who wants to dream, organize, and strategize

✿ for the creative who wants to make, draw, weave, tell, dance, move

✿ is for you


** a project by Ingrid Raphaël. ✿

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NSISIM Studio wants to personally thank the planet for all that it is, Sasha Kelley for outlining the marketing and distribution strategy of these courses – endlessly grateful for your piscean dreamer and capricorn rootedness and Iris E. Fernández Valdés who is our creative practice and emotional excavation life coach who has been accompanying us through parks, emotional underworld, creative laboratory, and inner child to unearth language and corporal and poetic connections presented as NSISIM.

Weaving


What do weaving languages & technologies offer to make sense of the self and others?

What have weaving practices & fractal technology offered us insight on?

How can/have they inform(ed) abolitionist
pasts, presents and futures?

How can weaving processes of making, undoing, sewing, knotting, tying, and undoing again teach us about the acts of (un)making the self?

    In this course, we’ll:


    1. play with weaving techniques such as fractal mapping, braiding simulators, and paper weaving 
    2. reflect on (inter)personal and cultural weaving practices (weaving needs, weaving clothes etc…)
    3. explore and learn through readings, objects, films, images, personal archives, films and history
    4. embody learnings, lessons, and orientations toward weaving as mending, as cultural memory, as language, as restorative justice and as a tool to meditate on the self, our community, and our environment

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    ✿Class Underway - Applications Closed


    Dates

    You can choose to opt into the Monday or Sunday cohort. 
    Mondays Feb 3, 10, 17, 24 @ 6-8p est
    Sundays Feb 2, 9, 16, 23 @ 10a-12p est


    Cost

    We offer a sliding scale steeped in an honor system where you pay based on your financial conditions: income, disposable income, savings, and ability to invest.

    $30-$50 - little to no savings, living month-to-month and/or similar financial conditions
    $50-$100 - access to savings and/or disposable income
    $100 -$150 - ability to save, spend, invest, and donate

    Time


    How can non-linear or alternative forms of time mirror our personal experiences?

    What forms of time-keeping support an imaginative way of honoring our experiences of time?

    How can we notice & observe time to map from and embody its lessons?

    In this course, we’ll:


    1. understand the ways time is structured to work against us & for us
    2. unlearn aspects of ownership and illusions of predictability (security) of time
    3. explore & learn to build constellations of time that defy ownership
    4. read time through afro-futurism, speculative fiction, music sheets, commutes, carbon dating etc…
    5. create personalized calendars & systems of time that support and align with your experiences and needs

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    ✿Click to Register by Wed. Feb 26 at 11:59p est


    Dates

    You can choose to opt into the Monday or Sunday cohort. 
    Mondays March 3, 10, 17, 24 @ 6-8p est
    Sundays March 2, 9, 16, 23 @ 10a-12p est


    Cost

    We offer a sliding scale steeped in an honor system where you pay based on your financial conditions: income, disposable income, savings, and ability to invest.

    $30-$50 - little to no savings, living month-to-month and/or similar financial conditions
    $50-$100 - access to savings and/or disposable income
    $100 -$150 - ability to save, spend, invest, and donate

    Nature



    What do plants, animals, rivers, trees, understories, and more have to embody and learn from?

    What herbs and plants have been used for liberatory struggles? What can we learn from them?

    What processes of grief, acceptance, love, clearing, regeneration does nature embody that we could learn from?

    How have creatives, writers, farmers, and cultures personified and transformed plants to dream and create new visions of realities?

    In this course, we’ll:


    1. observe the nature around us and listen to the lessons embodied in its landscape
    2. carve out our inner landscapes and get curious about what they hold, share, and are saying
    3. study the elements: air, water, fire, earth & the ways they have been written and personified 
    4. develop a poetic & political language and orientation of a personalized ecology
    5. explore medicinal properties of herbs for grief, love, soothing and more... 

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    ✿Click to Register by Wed. Apr 2 at 11:59p est


    Dates

    You can choose to opt into the Monday or Sunday cohort. 
    Mondays April 7, 14, 21, 28 @ 6-8p est
    Sundays April  6, 13, 20, 27 @ 10a-12p est


    Cost

    We offer a sliding scale steeped in an honor system where you pay based on your financial conditions: income, disposable income, savings, and ability to invest.

    $30-$50 - little to no savings, living month-to-month and/or similar financial conditions
    $50-$100 - access to savings and/or disposable income
    $100 -$150 - ability to save, spend, invest, and donate

    the Web



    What does the ephemera of the web(s) teach us?

    What autonomous modes of internet-living can we imagine, exist, and build?

    How are we living in digital spaces in ways we’d like?

    What can we learn from plant technologies that we can weave into the internet and digital spaces?

    Could we weave our visions of the future into the interwebs?


    In this course, we’ll:


    1. explore the history of the internet, soft v. hard ware & their gendered implications
    2. unpack published cyborg, internet, and tech + art manifestos 
    3. make a comparative analysis between plant-nature technology and systems of internet accessibility & possibilities
    4. attempt to mend our frustrations & criticisms of social media, internet, surveillance
    5. explore creative code technologies

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    ✿Click to Register by Wed. Apr 30 at 11:59p est

    Dates

    You can choose to opt into the Monday or Sunday cohort. 
    Mondays May 5, 12, 19, 26 @ 6-8p est
    Sundays May 4, 11, 18, 25 @ 10a-12p est


    Cost

    We offer a sliding scale steeped in an honor system where you pay based on your financial conditions: income, disposable income, savings, and ability to invest.

    $30-$50 - little to no savings, living month-to-month and/or similar financial conditions
    $50-$100 - access to savings and/or disposable income
    $100 -$150 - ability to save, spend, invest, and donate