ten is an attempt at the end of the world.

At a time when contemporary politics feels stuck, when white modernity seems unable to sustain its production of dissociated individual citizen-subjects, ten is a collective experiment within the cracks of the usual. A village of emerging gestures and practices inspired by posthumanist, Yoruba indigenous, and postactivist instigations. A gathering without a name, without a face – not within the designated spaces of the public to speak truth to power, but at the edges of the familiar, in the dungeons of abjection, to rehearse new possibilities. 

We are a fugitive, underground network of social artists seeking to create new openings to age-old problems. We aim to disrupt dominant modes of perception, engagement, and responsiveness in a time of crisis by disturbing modern notions of justice, power, and human agency. 

This is the work of postactivism, a concept developed by ten’s visionary founder, Báyò Akómoláfé. We do this work by instigating collaborative, creative processes in translocal interventions as a cultural practice. 

Our shared vision is of a political emancipatory project of interdependent networks and ecologies of practice interested in shifting our ontological gaze beyond the staid confines and moral purview of justice, diversity, representation and inclusion. By engaging in deep inquiry, conversations, and experimental processes, we aim to nurture an underground movement at the end of hope.

The Institute of Relational Being got to play and get experimental with TEN for Becoming Monster and looks forward to further opportunities for entanglement. We highly recommend you check out the emergence network.