GATHERINGS
I host playful gatherings that span from movement to intellectual discussion. Curious to attend or learn more? Email oliviatai100@gmail.com.
Roughhousing
I host roughhousing sessions twice a month in NYC. Inspired by movement philosophies Infinite Play, Fighting Monkey, and contact improv.Â
When was the last time the ground met you?
Tumbleweed you, flung forward, caught in the arms of grassy wet.
To be treadmarked by life. Cut your nails, breath your feet, and come play.
Tumbleweed you, flung forward, caught in the arms of grassy wet.
To be treadmarked by life. Cut your nails, breath your feet, and come play.
Though it may sound like Fight Club, roughhousing has a deep foundation in listening and play. Many of the games at roughhousing pull from wrestling or martial arts, but are all secretly in service of reviving the art of the playground.
We went as deep into the Winter as we could muster, but will start back up in the Spring. Message to join! oliviatai100@gmail.com
Chimeras Meet-ups
I co-host a Brooklyn meet-up group called the Chimeras twice a month with Kyle Barnes. Past emergent topics:Â
- animism
- social contracting with more-than-human world
- disgust <> fascination cycle
- mineralogy
- true north
- machines as earth
- tender / technical
- teaching outside the institution
- trance states and mask possession
- what are spatial, geographical, cultural chimeras?
Beetles: An Interspecies Gathering
A 70-person reflection on Beetles and their aesthetic, cultural, and scientific life. Hosted at Persona NYC and co-created with Kyle Barnes. Â
Collaboration with entomologists from the New York Natural History Museum & their private collections, Markus Herrman, and Justin Morris-Marano & Melody Stein of External Affairs.Â