March 12, 2025 TO September 12, 2025
Course Name 3
A Slow Study course with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe
For The Wild first spoke with Bayo in January of 2020, just before the world as we knew it would begin to fervently wind and unwind. We've cherished Bayo's challenging thought process ever since, and know For The Wild listeners feel the same.
The Syllabus
I
The Sensorium
Geci opens the course. Bayo emphasizes that the course itself is a process of becoming. The thesis is uncertainty. How might we feed it? How might we remember the strange hospitality of failure?
II
Dancing in the Afrocene: The Poetics and Promise of Decay
Geci opens the course. Bayo emphasizes that the course itself is a process of becoming. The thesis is uncertainty. How might we feed it? How might we remember the strange hospitality of failure?
III
White Syncopation
Geci opens the course. Bayo emphasizes that the course itself is a process of becoming. The thesis is uncertainty. How might we feed it? How might we remember the strange hospitality of failure?
IV
The Minor Gesture, the Paraterranean, and the Arachnean
Geci opens the course. Bayo emphasizes that the course itself is a process of becoming. The thesis is uncertainty. How might we feed it? How might we remember the strange hospitality of failure?
Suggested Financial Contributions
We offer two sliding scales based on your relative financial standing. The range between the two scales is meant to reflect not only the incredible disparity in economic conditions between different parts of the world but also the historical reality of stolen wealth in many different forms generally from the so-called Global South to the North. Ultimately, the payment system is designed for those with more access to wealth to cover the costs of those with less access to wealth; we trust your discernment of how you personally fit into this global economic context.
The different levels marked by Friend, Supporter, and Partner do not convey any material differences in your experience. They simply mark different contribution amounts within each scale.
As you decide what amount to pay, we ask that you not only consider your present-day financial situation governed by income but also factors including:
- Historical discrimination faced by your peoples
- Your financial wealth — do you have retirement savings?
- Historical discrimination faced by your peoples
- Your financial wealth — do you have retirement savings?
- Historical discrimination faced by your peoples
- Your financial wealth — do you have retirement savings?
- Historical discrimination faced by your peoples
- Your financial wealth — do you have retirement savings?
Sliding Scale I
For people with medium to high access to wealth in the global context. As a general rule of thumb: Middle class and Upper/Owning class people in the Global North; Anyone with investments, retirement savings, or who expects an inheritance.
Friend
$150 USD
Friend
$150 USD
Sliding Scale I
For people with medium to high access to wealth in the global context. As a general rule of thumb: Middle class and Upper/Owning class people in the Global North; Anyone with investments, retirement savings, or who expects an inheritance.
Friend
$150 USD
Friend
$150 USD
We call this village, 'Vunja' - a Swahili word for 'dancing in the breaks.'
We Will Dance with Mountains is an aesthetics of the endtime, an exploration of Dr. Akomolafe's postactivism as a pragmatic politics of rethinking accountability, social justice, and responsivity in the ruins of modernity. This is not a course premised on gaining mastery, getting to the point, achieving consensus, healing trauma, winning enlightenment, speaking truth to power, raising consciousness, or building on progressive ideals. This is an unspeakable traveling together from points-of-no-return, an ungrammatical vocation in becoming crippled together, a walking into Dunbar Creek together, a falling-apart-together, a tracing of new lines of errancy, a fugitive ethnographic study of the hidden worlds lurking behind white sight, a decoration of the walls of the cracks, a cultivating of bewilderment together, and a sitting-together-until-something-happens.
Since 2015, inspired by Yoruba indigenous ways of knowing and a coterie of concepts nurtured by posthumanist philosophies, Mountains' has convened study around potent issues, calling together an mbari of artists to rehearse new postures and gestures that coincide with the thresholds and hidden publics of the Black outdoors. A worldwide community of inquiry, an ecosystem of interlinked practices, and a village of technologies has emerged.
We call this village, to nourish this planetary federation of postactivist practitioners, to articulate a political project premised on mutiny, not arrival. Non-legibility, not visibility. Our ambition is to weave together an erotic network of cartographic work and engender flourishing creativities and capacities in the wooden hull of modern tensions.
We call this village, to nourish this planetary federation of postactivist practitioners, to articulate a political project premised on mutiny, not arrival. Non-legibility, not visibility. Our ambition is to weave together an erotic network of cartographic work and engender flourishing creativities and capacities in the wooden hull of modern tensions.
We call this village, to nourish this planetary federation of postactivist practitioners, to articulate a political project premised on mutiny, not arrival. Non-legibility, not visibility. Our ambition is to weave together an erotic network of cartographic work and engender flourishing creativities and capacities in the wooden hull of modern tensions.
Featured Artists and Guest Teachers
Geci Karuri-Sebina
Guest Teacher
Geci Karuri-Sebinr
Guest Teacher
About Bayo
At Dancing with Mountains, hosting courses and co-sensing gatherings has been central to our practice and how we have been traveling as troubadours. These are more than just offerings — they are living invitations to dance with the tremors of these times. In the cracks of collapse, we find the fertile ground for new ways of being, knowing, and becoming-with. With We Will Dance with Mountains and now other emergent explorations being also hosted by our kin, we gather not to fix or resolve, but to linger in the questions, to compost the old and midwife the new.
These courses are portals, spaces where we practice postactivism, where we unlearn urgency and embrace the slow, spiraling work of transformation.
Here, we are not just learning; we are practicing the art of qarrtsiluni — dwelling with/in the dark, staying with our gnawing troubles, evolving, together, in the midst of the messiness that engulf us.
This basketweave consists of not just WWDWM, but a vibrant milieu of gifts that uplifts the wisdom and experiments of our kin, allies, and community. This is no longer just one course but a constellation of gatherings — a shared ecosystem of learning and unlearning and collective sensing of the edges. Together, this tapestry of possibilities being woven, in the spirit of postactivism and parapolitics, breathes new life into the corners of our systems being less attended to, attuning us to the minor gestures, and where the dance becomes a chorus of many voices, many rhythms, many worlds.
Course Format
At Dancing with Mountains, hosting courses and co-sensing gatherings has been central to our practice and how we have been traveling as troubadours. These are more than just offerings — they are living invitations to dance with the tremors of these times. In the cracks of collapse, we find the fertile ground for new ways of being, knowing, and becoming-with. With We Will Dance with Mountains and now other emergent explorations being also hosted by our kin, we gather not to fix or resolve, but to linger in the questions, to compost the old and midwife the new.
These courses are portals, spaces where we practice postactivism, where we unlearn urgency and embrace the slow, spiraling work of transformation.
Here, we are not just learning; we are practicing the art of qarrtsiluni — dwelling with/in the dark, staying with our gnawing troubles, evolving, together, in the midst of the messiness that engulf us.
This basketweave consists of not just WWDWM, but a vibrant milieu of gifts that uplifts the wisdom and experiments of our kin, allies, and community. This is no longer just one course but a constellation of gatherings — a shared ecosystem of learning and unlearning and collective sensing of the edges. Together, this tapestry of possibilities being woven, in the spirit of postactivism and parapolitics, breathes new life into the corners of our systems being less attended to, attuning us to the minor gestures, and where the dance becomes a chorus of many voices, many rhythms, many worlds.
Is this course for you?
At Dancing with Mountains, hosting courses and co-sensing gatherings has been central to our practice and how we have been traveling as troubadours. These are more than just offerings — they are living invitations to dance with the tremors of these times. In the cracks of collapse, we find the fertile ground for new ways of being, knowing, and becoming-with. With We Will Dance with Mountains and now other emergent explorations being also hosted by our kin, we gather not to fix or resolve, but to linger in the questions, to compost the old and midwife the new.
These courses are portals, spaces where we practice postactivism, where we unlearn urgency and embrace the slow, spiraling work of transformation.
Here, we are not just learning; we are practicing the art of qarrtsiluni — dwelling with/in the dark, staying with our gnawing troubles, evolving, together, in the midst of the messiness that engulf us.
This basketweave consists of not just WWDWM, but a vibrant milieu of gifts that uplifts the wisdom and experiments of our kin, allies, and community. This is no longer just one course but a constellation of gatherings — a shared ecosystem of learning and unlearning and collective sensing of the edges. Together, this tapestry of possibilities being woven, in the spirit of postactivism and parapolitics, breathes new life into the corners of our systems being less attended to, attuning us to the minor gestures, and where the dance becomes a chorus of many voices, many rhythms, many worlds.
Cost Accessibility
At Dancing with Mountains, hosting courses and co-sensing gatherings has been central to our practice and how we have been traveling as troubadours. These are more than just offerings — they are living invitations to dance with the tremors of these times. In the cracks of collapse, we find the fertile ground for new ways of being, knowing, and becoming-with. With We Will Dance with Mountains and now other emergent explorations being also hosted by our kin, we gather not to fix or resolve, but to linger in the questions, to compost the old and midwife the new.
These courses are portals, spaces where we practice postactivism, where we unlearn urgency and embrace the slow, spiraling work of transformation.
Here, we are not just learning; we are practicing the art of qarrtsiluni — dwelling with/in the dark, staying with our gnawing troubles, evolving, together, in the midst of the messiness that engulf us.
This basketweave consists of not just WWDWM, but a vibrant milieu of gifts that uplifts the wisdom and experiments of our kin, allies, and community. This is no longer just one course but a constellation of gatherings — a shared ecosystem of learning and unlearning and collective sensing of the edges. Together, this tapestry of possibilities being woven, in the spirit of postactivism and parapolitics, breathes new life into the corners of our systems being less attended to, attuning us to the minor gestures, and where the dance becomes a chorus of many voices, many rhythms, many worlds.
Refund Policy
At Dancing with Mountains, hosting courses and co-sensing gatherings has been central to our practice and how we have been traveling as troubadours. These are more than just offerings — they are living invitations to dance with the tremors of these times. In the cracks of collapse, we find the fertile ground for new ways of being, knowing, and becoming-with. With We Will Dance with Mountains and now other emergent explorations being also hosted by our kin, we gather not to fix or resolve, but to linger in the questions, to compost the old and midwife the new.
These courses are portals, spaces where we practice postactivism, where we unlearn urgency and embrace the slow, spiraling work of transformation.
Here, we are not just learning; we are practicing the art of qarrtsiluni — dwelling with/in the dark, staying with our gnawing troubles, evolving, together, in the midst of the messiness that engulf us.
This basketweave consists of not just WWDWM, but a vibrant milieu of gifts that uplifts the wisdom and experiments of our kin, allies, and community. This is no longer just one course but a constellation of gatherings — a shared ecosystem of learning and unlearning and collective sensing of the edges. Together, this tapestry of possibilities being woven, in the spirit of postactivism and parapolitics, breathes new life into the corners of our systems being less attended to, attuning us to the minor gestures, and where the dance becomes a chorus of many voices, many rhythms, many worlds.
