Beyond the Binary: Practicum

About the Event:

In this moment when so many of us are stiff with fear, rigid with rage, and locked into our positions, we at DS4SI suggest considering something counterintuitive. When it feels like we can’t think and we can’t move, we suggest that “can’t think” and “can’t move” are in fact deeply connected. In this moment, instead of the binaries offered to us, we believe we need a range of motion. That range of motion—that movement that breaks a binary—can also help us rethink it. Instead of going harder, locking in, ramping up our righteousness, we need to explore the uncertainty, the not-knowing. The thirdness. The weird, the poetic, the perverse, the liminal.

To close the series, we turn to an expanded and diffracted take on movement. What does it mean to think about social movements through the language of physical movement? What changes when we understand soma as always already collective? Why must we insist, as we did in our 2024 Aesthetic Justice Manifesto on the right to be moved? What is the relationship between being moved and being mobilizable?

Join Andrew Suseno, founder of Moving Rasa, Stephanie Guilloud, Movement Organizing Senior Strategist at Project South, and Dzidzor Azaglo, performing artist, for an extended evening of collective practice in expanding our range of motion.

About the Speakers:

: Dzidzor (pronounced Jee-Joh) is a mystic folklore/performing artist/wonderer. Drawing inspiration from Octavia E. Butler’s powerful question, "What do we need to do now to create the world we want to live in?" Dzidzor engages the body as a site of possibility, where healing can take root, and liberation can be practiced. Her artistic reach spans renowned institutions and sacred spaces. She has performed and/or installed sound installations at places like the ICA Boston, Old North Church, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Marsh Chapel, Harvard University, the University of Ghana, Gallery 1957, and more. In each setting, she transforms space into soundscapes of exploration, allowing stories and melodies to serve as tools of awakening. She has been a resident at the Atlantic Center of the Arts and is currently a Creative Entrepreneur Fellow and serves on the Better Selves Fellowship board. She studied English literature at Elizabeth City State University before earning her Master's in Divinity at Boston University with a certificate in Religion and Conflict Transformation.

Dzidzor has released an EP called ‘Wilderness’, an experimental EP that explores her voice and presence to carve out space for wonder, vulnerability, and truth. You can listen to Wilderness on all streaming platforms.

In addition to her performance work, Dzidzor is engaged in collective, imaginative world-building. She collaborates with Crystal Bi through the Department of Public Imagination, an initiative based in Boston, MA, that reimagines public life through storytelling, art, and civic engagement. She also serves as a Community Liaison for the Reckonings Project, an endeavor dedicated to memory, community archives, and communal preservation. Her commitment to sound as a medium of exploration and transformation is further deepened by her studies.

Dzidzor invites us to pause. To listen. To remember that in a world that demands constant movement, the need to slow down, remember, and imagine are forms of possibility. Whether through call-and-response, guided meditation, or immersive storytelling, she reminds us that sound is more than something to hear; it is something to embody.

You can follow her journey at www.dzidzor.com

: Stephanie brings close to three decades of organizing experience and leadership in the Southern movement and global justice work. From 2008-2022, Stephanie served as the Co-Director at Project South and has recently repositioned to a Senior Strategist in the Movement Organizing work of the organization. She works on regional organizing projects, including the Southern Movement Assembly, a grassroots governance strategy that has initiated shared campaigns, rapid response to crises, and mutual aid organizing work across the region over the last ten years. She sits on the steering committee of the Southern Power Fund and is a board member of Taproot Earth. Stephanie is a published writer, co-created the Organizers' History site related to the 1999 actions to shut down the World Trade Organization, and edited Project South's People's Movement Assembly Organizing Handbook.

: Andrew Suseno is an Indonesian-Chinese American somatic educator and movement artist based in Lenapehoking (New York City). He is the creator of Parcon Resilience and its evolution, Moving Rasa—frameworks developed over more than a decade to integrate movement, collective care, and social transformation.

While trained in somatic modalities like Dynamic Embodiment, the Feldenkrais Method, and Laban Movement Analysis, Andrew’s praxis is equally shaped by restorative justice, somatic abolitionism, Nonviolent Communication, and Indigenous family therapy. His work weaves these lineages with his own ancestry, research, and community-rooted practice.

He has performed internationally and teaches movement as a pathway toward resilience and embodied justice. He is also the founder of Moving Rasa Possibilities Incorporated, a platform for movement-based healing and imagination.

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