What if humanity is not a noun, but a verb? ‘Not all travellers walk roads’, writes Conceição Evaristo. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung borrows this vers for the title of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo and suggests to conceive of humanity as a practice, as an action, rather than as an established entity. The voices gathered here approach this from various directions: for Juliana Borges, wandering or going astray is an ancestral technology of deviation; and Abdellatif Laâbi’s poem ‚I declare‘ approaches humanity as an ethical practice renewed each day. He is asking ‚What will I do today to remain worthy of humanity?’, which resonates closely with the Bienal’s proposition that humanity is a commitment renewed through our daily actions. Creuza Krahô, a member of the Indigenous Krahô community of Brazil, insists on their right “to exist as people in the world we live in”. Between poetry, interviews, and essays, a sonic space emerges in which listening becomes more important than observation and comprehension.