Building a Boat for Tempestuous Times / Stories of Sirens not Semen: Hybrid Women with Bodies of Birds, Heads of Humans and Souls of Love

<p dir="ltr">Hybrid Women are a feminine, fierce, feeling collective. This visual essay presents two different kinds of artistic creation. A video that shows our feminist relational digital research across borders starting from the question “What object has your (M)other made for you?”. And an interactive arts participatory workshop on our collective multimodal practices created during a convivial experience during the Artfulness conference in Opatija (Croatia). This work emerged from crossed and overlapping friendships and Alice Bell’s previous doctoral research on producing Techno Sensual Acts of Love, through the activation of a adapted form of her new framework for enabling deep relational encounter through participatory practice-based research (PartPb), 2022. This framework was conceived first through her TETTT project, (Transformational Encounter: Touch Traction Transformation, Bell, 2019). Our aim is to explore women’s unconscious embodied memories through performative dialogue.</p>