DISALIGNMENTS

The Disaligned / Les Désalignées / Les Desalineades 

“The Disaligned” is a proposal for an eco-social-animal movement that creates novel forms of indeterminate, varying, and symbiotic collectivity through disaligned choral movement, linked to the VegAnarQueer principles and systemic change, deep ecology, rewilding and Earth liberation.

  • movement techniques  promoted by Jaym*/Jaime del Val  &  workhops
  • eco-social-animal movement – systemic change – rewilding – deep ecology
  • philosophy, attitude, way of living, ongoing practice, new kind of community-making
  • outdoors/indoors sitespecific nomadic improvisations and Dérives – small or large scale choral actions – in urban, rural or “natural” enviroments – can include protest actions
  • onto-therapy – ontohacking technique
Proprioceptive Swarms – Indeterminate Body – Body Intelligence

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. Disalignments mobilise Bi (Body Intelligence) as nonrational swarm-like selforganising capacity of the body. 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 (Del Val 2024) 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 Part 2.

In face of the limitations of other proposals such as Contact Improvisation or somatic practices, which may tend to favour abled bodies, indoors and institutional environments, and a lack of awareness of Western or other biases and of differences amongst participants, Disalignments happen mainly in the open, away from palliative approaches and aiming towards a deeper sustained transformation in ways of living, literally towards a complete self-rewilding and Earth rewilding and a relearning of coevolution during the upcoming collapse, as part of a “choral ontopolitics” where collective movement is central, resonating with Stephan Donath’s (2018) elaboration on assembly movements like Occupy as choral actions, read from the perspective of the ancient Greek chorus, which exceeds the currently established individual-collective binary. The practices are also linked to an “ontological hacking” or deconstructive critique of human supremacist beliefs and categories, hence aiming at problematising the intrinsic inequalities and biases converging in the contexts and people participating in the practice itself.

Donath, Stefan. 2018. Protestchöre: Zu einer neuen Ästhetik des Widerstands. Stuttgart 21, Arabischer Frühling und Occupy in theaterwissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Bielefeld: Transcript.

Outdoors actions videos:

Indoors workshop sessions videos:

Images from labs between 2011 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):

 

DISALIGNMENTS WORKSHOP VIDEOS:

2014 Madrid