Co-sensing with Radical Tenderness
by Dani d'Emilia, Vanessa Andreotti & GTDF Collective

Co-sensing with Radical Tenderness is a text Dani d'Emilia and Vanessa Andreotti began to write in 2018, based on thoughts expressed by the collective Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures [GTDF]. Initially called “An Invitation to Radical Tenderness”, this text has been shape-shifting alongside their artistic-pedagogic collaboration “Engaged Dis-identification”, which attempts to translate post-representational modes of engagement into embodied experiments that reconfigure the connections between reason, affect and relationality. The current version of the text has been revised in June 2020. More information on GTDF here: www.decolonialfutures.net

Radical Tenderness [RT] is a term that Dani first encountered whilst working as part of the transnational performance collective La Pocha Nostra [LPN] (2009-2016). Since then, Dani has been engaged in a multi-layered co-sensing of radical tenderness' movements on personal, political and spiritual realms. A first radical tenderness manifesto written by Dani in collaboration with Daniel B. Chavez (2015) as well as info on Dani's work with RT in different performance-pedagogy contexts can be accessed here: www.danidemilia.com