ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the feminine-based performative praxis of ʻencounter-investigation’ located in the shared border-encounter-space between the human ʻI’ and the more-than-human ʻnon-I’ of traumatized anthropocenic nature. Building on performative interventions in the Swiss Alps, the contribution actualizes the conscious and unconscious layers of this peripheral dimension as a psychic and physical encounter-landscape. In reference to Bracha Ettinger’s Matrixial theory, the chapter embraces the peripheral and carrying constitution of subjectivity, which encompasses not only the individual self but also the response-able entanglement of human and more-than-human multiplicities. The contribution asks how this Matrixial constitution of subjectivity can be applied to the traumatized relation between humans and the planetary environment, what (artistic) practices such an approach requires, and what alternative forms of knowledge may arise accordingly.
