In her colloquium presentation, annais linares will discuss a socially-engaged art practice that brings together arts-based community making and kinning, a verb described as ”…reconnecting our bodies, minds, and spirits within a world that is not merely a collection of objects but a ‘communion of subjects’…” by Gavin Van Horn, co-editor of Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations.

annais describes this bridging as arts-based kin making. Her work studies improvisation and accompaniment as critical processes to ethically activate arts-based kin making in her communities, and how those practices might lead to re[new]ed relationships between humans, and between human and more-than-human life. She will discuss the relevance of this practice within the contexts of community health, [species] loneliness, and related arts-based community making projects.