Walking lovink: Reimagining and rewriting the notion of love beyond binaries is the title of this practice- as-research. It is situated in the intersection of feminist, queer and crip theory, post-humanism and expanded choreography. The research project used walking as a choreographic-relational practice in which love could be re-imagined through building alternative bonds of intimacy through sensory awareness on our body and the more-than-human bodies of the city.

Initiated by a personal need to overcome my cynicism about love after a breakup, this research was finally driven by a broader urgency to criticize the commodification of love into a romantic product that perpetuates (hetero)normative narratives responsible for uneven power distribution. Through data (un)collection, literature and field review and practice as research, this philosophical and artistic exploration illustrates love as a not-yet place by framing it as a dialogical, relational, influx practice that addresses more than human bodies. It aims to address the performativity of love and create a space where love can be imagined, practiced, and performed beyond fixed ideas about it, having as guidelines love ethics that oppose power and domination.

I propose rethinking the ethics of love and care aiming to inform performance practices towards a more diverse and democratic participation and the creation of a maker-audience relationship that could question hierarchies. A horizontal approach could enable the creation of a ground of coexistence and reciprocity. It also allows critical thinking about power and domination thus enclosing the potential of co-creating a more just world.