"Ultimately, there is no other. The other is part of us and I will engulf it fully and tenderly."

The Intimacy of Otherness is a durational transmedia multisensory performance lecture in progress about radical self-healing from Multiple Sclerosis (2012-19) through guerrilla art interventions, dances of urgency and different bliss-inducing techniques. These practices included clubbing, (self-)hypnosis and erotic expression. In the first act of the work, the artist shares their lived experience while laying in stillness on a suspended tree trunk. By re-enacting indoor, for the very first time, their performance "Be-coming Tree", the artist embodies and unveil some of the qualities that need to be acquired in order to turn the seemingly "impossible" (healing etc.) into an “I'm possible” reality. The video documents the proof-of-concept performance of this version of the work, which took place at Studio Alta in Prague at the Festival kvír vědomostí in Prague on the 29th of June 2024. (Source: Jatun Risba)