ontological hybridism

This offers the lens for all methods/approaches of working with more-than-human bodies.

Concept: Bodies of matter—objects and flesh—in their different registers of ontology, co-habituating whilst performing their agencies individually and in relation with one another to per/form a mixture or hybrid of different ontologies of different bodies It fosters the emergence of hybrid subjectivity/ies of the multitudinous body (my figuration for a personal yet collective, singular yet plural, one yet many emergent body from the methods)

Theory: “Ontologically one, formally diverse” (Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus)

Aim:

To make visible different objects and their different ontologies
To make a one yet many body
Choosing objects to work with

Method:

Working with different states of matter, either by changing its physical form.

[Eg. Beetroot: solid (whole beetroot), semi-solid (grated beetroot), liquid (beetroot juice)] or different manifestations and applications of matter.[In , beetroots were the source matter, which manifested not only in form but also as a new object. Eg handmade beetroot paper or cloth dyed in beetroot juice]

Choice of objects: choosing different everyday objects that have different presences, intimacies and ways of occupying space. Eg, the ontology of a cloth is different from a beetroot or table

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