L is for the Way You Look at Me II

Departing from the first edition, which looked into the invisible entanglement of microbial interactions that compose the meshwork of life and the intonation of love, in 2026 the second edition of L is for the Way You Look at Me continues to explore the reimagination and re-enactment of love through the sensing, attunement, and expression of bodies.  

From single-cell microbes to the multicellular body of larger living beings, radical mergings of living matter are bound in an interconnected process of metabolism and transformation. By living and sensing with the microbial, we can, perhaps, experience hunger through photosynthesis and sense our blood flow through vegetal rooting. Through lectures, panels, bodily practices, food, music, and reading sessions, L is for the Way You Look at Me II explores the body as an open landscape connecting and exchanging materialities, subjecthoods, and sensibilities. It calls for a collective sensing of the unnamable corporeal yearnings to feel, touch, transform, and synchronize with other living rhythms and vibrations—an impulse of life that we, sometimes, call love.