Claire Loussouarn

This workshop invites a return to what is already there: our feral nature, without apology.

We begin by unpeeling. Loosening the human-centred conditioning that shapes perception and constrains response. As these perceptual habits soften, instinctive intelligence, the feral knowing we were taught to mistrust, reawakens.

We practise staying with the tension between instinct and attention. Spontaneous without collapse into unconsciousness. Attentive without hardening into rigidity. Alert, porous, responsive, and accountable to what surrounds us.

As sensitivity deepens, the boundary between body and environment begins to thin. We start to feel how the land moves through us. Perception reveals itself as reciprocal. We learn how to be affected without resistance, and how to act without dominance.

Movement shifts from expression to relation. Through agentive listening — recognising that agency is shared across human and more-than-human bodies — gesture becomes participation in a wider field of intelligence. The world thinking through us. Dance becomes ecological attention. A form of listening. A form of conversation.

Participants are invited to allow feral emergence to disrupt habitual boundaries. To move with the land is to be unsettled and astonished, to encounter the porous edge of identity itself. In this friction between instinct and attention, human and more-than-human, another way of being alive becomes possible — raw, relational, and feral.

The first day takes place indoors, preparing the body for outdoor movement. The following four days unfold primarily outside.

We work in all weather — rain, heat, damp ground. Please come prepared. Waterproof layers and warmth make it easier to release concern for comfort, cleanliness, or protection, and to give yourself more fully to the experience.

Claire Loussouarn is a movement artist, facilitator, filmmaker, herbalist, anthropologist, and writer. Her book How to be feral: movement practices to re-wild your body (Triarchy Press, 2024) invites us to unsettle human-centric perception, reclaim bodies shaped by cultural conditioning, and relearn movement as if we were creatures once more.

Together with filmmaker Dominique Rivoal, she co-created We are grass, we are plants, we are Hackney Marshes—a four-screen immersive film installation with 3D sound, filmed over six years of shared attention and conversation with Hackney Marshes, a common land in the heart of London which invites audiences to become the landscape itself.

Her practice is rooted in a long-term commitment to place, shaped by over eight years of sustained relationship with the Marshes. Through her distinctive approach to movement and perception, she disrupts entrenched divisions between nature and culture, subject and object, challenging the assumption that the act of seeing is fixed or distant, and repositioning it as a relational, attentive, and ecological act.