In Fighting Monkey, movement provides an accessible laboratory for investigating these questions.
Yet movement is only one fragment of what is necessary to sustain life.
Living requires us to continuously participate in several interconnected processes:
- Boundary — maintaining a sense of ourselves while remaining open to change.
- Movement — exploring, perceiving, and discovering possibilities through action.
- Responsiveness — sensing what is happening and adjusting our relations to it.
- Digestion — receiving and processing what life brings us.
- Metabolising — transforming experience and resources into something useful.
- Excretion — releasing what has become unnecessary, including ideas about who we ought to be.
- Growth — generating new possibilities, skills, relations, and ways of living.
- Sharing — contributing to the lives of others and allowing what we discover to continue beyond ourselves.
Creativity is essential here.
Finding a solution is only part of the challenge. We must also discover when, how much, and under which conditions a solution becomes useful. More mobility, more strength, more knowledge, or more control can occasionally create new limitations.
Play will be central to our inquiry.
Through play, we can encounter uncertainty without requiring every experiment to succeed. We can discover unfamiliar qualities in ourselves and others, explore alternative behaviours, and learn to move between seriousness and lightness.