Human-ing Out Loud: Ontologies of Disorder in a Musically Exemplified Trans-Caribbean Option

Jouvay presents an ongoing conversation about how to human in singular-multiple ways, instructing daaancers (Stines 2021) on how to live differently – that is, sensitive to relations between species, spirits, saints, mythical characters, and devils. Another ecosystem, disenchanted by difference, is imagined and temporarily created in music and daaance. This is a space and a short-offered time where how we play, sound out, and daaance allow for different futures to be imagined and new forms of human-ing that embrace relations with non-human animals and ecosystems to be practiced. It is a refusal of exclusion and a move towards making inequity inexact. Trans-Caribbeaning is to daaance flesh to flesh, to be undone by the non-human, the epitome of which is sound. It is to think, act, and feel with a community of minds firmly in the flesh of the world, contra liberal individualism and self-interest, racial nationhood, and Man’s dominion over the earth. Its premise is that one cannot tackle racisms, economic dependency, animal/land exploitation, and the Anthropocene without interrogating humanocentrism and its degradation of the environment. What would it mean to think our historical subjectivities as different yet connected? And to think our belonging in terms of entangled histories?