(Dis)Orientation

Once the container of a working agreement has been established, preliminary sessions usually last up to a year.

This period is characterized by an opening up of questions where certainty once ruled, on the understanding that such certainty has acted as an increasingly restrictive defense. It is what your coping mechanisms are meant to defend, and against what they are meant to defend, that is of crucial interest.

This questioning can feel unnerving and disorienting, yet it is essential for an orientation to fruitful work. You might think of it as a tilling of the field, or an initial site excavation that reveals something of the ground to be (dis)covered.

Pictured: Bergen aan Zee, Holland, 2025