1/29 Tentacular Thinking in Storied Places: A Deep-Mapping of an Art-Science-Activist Worlding in Necropolis (2017 Onward) gps.psi-web.org/issue-4-2/gps-4-2-5/ Stalpaert, Christel, Arkadi Zaides, Michel Lussault, Philippe Rekacewicz, Atelier Cartographique, and Igor Dobricic. “Tentacular Thinking in Storied Places: A Deep- Mapping of an Art-Science-Activist Worlding in ‘Necropolis’ (2017 Onward).” Global Performance Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 2021. https://doi.org/10.33303/gpsv4n2a5 Christel Stalpaert, Arkadi Zaides, Michel Lussault, Philippe Rekacewicz, Atelier Cartographique, and Igor Dobricic With the Institut des Croisements, choreographer, dancer and curator Arkadi Zaides unfolds a continuing engagement in human rights issues. His research-based art practice thinks through the entanglement of politics and the ways bodies (are allowed to) move. In 2017, Zaides embarked on the long-term performance project Necropolis, considering the movements of people who are systematically and brutally stopped by border policies (Zaides in Noeth 51), highlighting the choreography that occurs in the social sphere. The performance project entails a “documentary approach to the contemporary geopolitical reality of migration” (Zaides 346). . Rather than providing a coherent, consistent analysis of the performance Necropolis, this text testifies of a co-production of knowledge from within the research-based, long- durational performance project of Necropolis, and its many off-springs, such as the NecropolisLAB and the continuously constituted virtual city of the dead called NECROPOLIS. Rather than writing “about” an art-practice, this text came into being in collaboration with an art-practice. As another process of knowledge production is at stake, this text is not single-authored, but rather presents a hybrid constellation of different voices from within the collaborative process itself. Also, this text sometimes follows the logic of side thoughts, indicated with comments in footnotes. . In the text, the different voices are marked by different color codes, rendering transparent in a legend, from the onset, the accountability of the authors in the networked thinking. Also, in the accompanying short bio of these authors, the position from where these authors think and speak is made explicit. As such, this text is organized and meets with academic requirements. . LEGEND (in alphabetical order) [1] [2] [3]