Extrasensory is a new community arts space for experiencing through the body. Our bodies are our homes, and our vehicle for moving through the world, yet many of us feel disconnected from our bodies and the bodies of those around us. We want also to ask what we should do with all the “extra”ness of bodily experience. What now with this exuberance and lethargy, joy and suffering? How can we make something beautiful from the excesses of life?
The space will host workshops, classes, rehearsals and public performances across many “sensory” disciplines. Through music, movement, meditation, touch, play, debate and discussion we will practice creating the conditions for present and grounded experience in our bodies.
Extrasensory is a space of welcome for every body. Except those who discriminate against other peoples due to actual and/or perceived difference. We love our LGBTQIA community, & celebrate sex workers & kinksters. Racism, sexism, homophobia, TERF or SWERF rhetoric, fascism & antisemitism, fat-phobia & age-ism will not be tolerated. Mutual respect and the practice of enthusiastic consent are core values. We are a sex-positive space. Please play nice with others, unless they’ve asked you very nicely not to.
Extrasensory is operating on land that always was and always will be, aboriginal land.
We are working towards decolonisation of our practices, thoughts, bodies and ways of being - continually.
We believe in the liberation and freedom of all peoples from oppressive systems, locally and globally.
We also recognise that learning and conscious development looks and is different for all peoples and want to cultivate a culture of helping one another grow. This means holding space for complexity and contradiction. This is your trigger warning. Anything and everything we do here might be triggering to some people. We are committed to working through conflicts together, and resist the urge to cancel or demonize each other. This requires a consciousness of humility and courage from each of us.
We are located at 649 Plenty Rd, Preston, Naarm. We are just getting started, so the program is currently pretty limited, but over the coming months we will be adding more:
Community events (dinners, discussion groups, reading groups, lectures/talks, community classes)
Classes
Workshops
Public showings and performances
