A world of knowledge pulses with and through you. Creativity is a praxis. Nurture it.

Creative Body Institute was founded by Dr. Raegan Truax with and for artists and thinkers seeking to create intentional time-space-relations for deep engagement with PRAXIS and each other.

Duration, ecofeminism, deep time, deep listening, radical relationality as an indigenous feminist praxis, crip temporalities, geopoetics, somatic learning, a desire to remain curious, and collective care instead of competition are some areas that inform our methodologies.

We are also always learning and growing with our community of creative bodies. In that process, we commit to

laboring to co-create spatiotemporal forms that materialize freedom

amplifying the social impact of artistic thinking and creative practices across artistic disciplines

working to create intergenerational opportunities for rigorous collective artistic research

In our experience, methods in art making, artistic research, and graduate and professional art education, can often reproduce normative standards which value linear capital progress and vertical structures of power. In contrast, our visceral approach to PRAXIS swerves. It crawls and rolls on the floor. It cuts archives up when documents stall us and gives everyone in our thematic residencies, performance intensives, and online courses the space to stray, or be still. We research our burning political questions, enact necessary social interventions, and practice with intention. We encourage methods that allow getting lost before returning—not necessarily to go back, but to go down tracks of thought and creativity that allow for imperfection, surprise, and new questions.

We bring together intergenerational artists, curators, and artist-scholars whose creative work resonates with our labor to undo oppressive structures and build new spacetimes with and for each other.