CPPM Manifestal'24: INTERBEING. AN ATTEMPT. Misia Žurek + Artist Talk • CPPM Manifestal'24: INTERBEING. AN ATTEPMT. Misia Żurek

Author-director MISIA ŻUREK (POL)
Co-creators and performers BOTOND BARTOKOS, LOU DESMET, KAROLINA PETERSON, VIKTORIA PRESSMAN, IOHAN FIGUEROA

Production CPPM Manifestal and Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre

Supported by Estonian Culture Endowment

I happened to meet a beautiful term “interbeing” proposed by Thich Nhat Hanh that means co-depending and co-intertwining. For the first time I put this word on the top of my tongue and spelled it: i n t e r b e i n g.

There was something attractive to me – to hear it and understand at the same time. As Walter Ong claims,  in a deep sense language, articulated sound, is paramount. Not only communication, but thought itself relates in an altogether special way to sound (Ong, 2002). And so once, hearing myself saying it out loud I started to go further.

I understood that being is every time and all the time interbeing (Współbycie). In fact, every meeting is an intra-action, a dynamic process of co-influencing and co-creating each other, rather than just a crossing of paths of independent individuals (Barad).

Facing that, a desire to share love came to me, to search for the beauty through doing and thinking at the same time, collectively. My journey is towards the beauty that is thinkfeel (Morton 2021). So that requires the body and mind together, as an organism, where the idea comes with the sensation.