DISALIGNMENTS

Proprioceptive Swarms – Indeterminate Body

  • movement techniques
  • street interventions and Dérives – small or large scale collective actions
  • workhops
  • onto/meta-therapy – ontohacking
  • systemic change – rewilding – deep ecology

Disalignments are  movement techniques for disaligning the body from its known movements and perceptions, activating a proprioceptive swarm-like body, developed by Jaime del Val since around 2010. Disalignments are movement improvisation techniques focusing on proprioception that mobilize the body as diffuse swarm of microperceptions moving in excess of  rational awareness, while the residue of conscious awareness is used for the sake of inducing subtle deviations from known patterns, gestures, postures, temporalities, or proximities. Disalignments explore almost imperceptible micromovements, focusing on the plasticity of internal movement sensations and their indeterminacy. The techniques are anti-choreographic, focusing on the ongoing and subtle deviation from any previous pattern, and on letting the body move without a subject guiding it, in excess of decisional trajectories or external cues that reduce its orientations. They are an irreproducible, emergent, indeterminable movement technique for an Earth liberation in the age of extinctions and algorithms.

Disalignments are urban interventions, swarms of bodies moving in very unconventional temporalities, axes, proximities, spaces and  contacts that infuse indeterminacy in the environment. They are usually developed in the form of a week long workshops, as choral practice.  They are an ontohacking technique: opening up the rigid realities inherited from the era of ontology, metaphysics, distant vision, and sedentary and exploitative civilizations toward more plastic modes of intra-action, for weaving more open worlds. They are a practice for unfolding Body Intelligence and Symbiotic Untrainment (Del Val 2025): for developing flocking modes of group cohesion based on difference and proprioceptive variation, not on imitation, for open collectivities, and for radically embodied and non-abstract modes of knowledge. Ultimately, they are a technique of rewilding, a real becoming animal, for regaining symbiosis with the world, toward a deep ecology, relearning to co-evolve with ecosystems, for planetary regeneration in the coming climate collapse.

For a comprehensive description of the Disalignments techniques IN ENGLISH see pages 438-453 in Ontohackers 2.

Images from labs between 2010 and 2025 in Chile (Santiago), Colombia (Manizales), Brazil (Brasilia), Argentina (Buenos Aires), Perú (Lima), Spain (Madrid, Zorita de la Frontera in rural Salamanca, Xplore Tarragona), France (Toulouse), Germany (Berlin and Dresden), Greece (Lesvos), USA (New York), Canada (Montreal):

 

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