The idea of the project was to research into (the representation of) violence in visual art, film, poetry, sex, and academia. All of us in the team feel strongly about many of the above, so we were extremely excited to get the project going. We were sick of social media’s ridiculous content policing and wanted to address extreme practices and imagery usually labeled as “sensitive content” or blocked outright.

We believed that by looking at the specificities of violence, we actually could take a few steps towards imagining (and creating) a world without it (which is, of course, impossible without familiarity with what it is and which forms it can take). We also shared the idea that “empathy emerges as a capacity of imaginative embodiment,” ( 1 ) where “embodiment” means that our minds are embodied, that we think via sensorimotor experiences. You know, cognition is what happens when the body meets the world, and all that.

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