OCA is the coming together of thought and body—theory and action—teaching and listening. The collective thinks through the body which is often seen as secondary to the mind therefore disrupting the binary created by a Cartesian Western dualism. Through the utilisation of choreography, as the coming together of theory—body—landscape—speech, the collective presents new methodologies for pedagogy and politics where action and movement bring thought and theory, as opposed to the reversal. The work extends into the methodologies of society and politics at large, to ask—what if we placed somatic action at the forefront of our political responses? What if, alongside the thinking entailed within policy, there was also a ‘doing’/being coupled with the wants and needs of our communities?

OCA has exhibited at various galleries and museum spaces such as the Humber Gallery, Toronto and the Logan Centre, UChicago in a show curated by Theaster Gates. OCA is currently working towards interrogating pedagogical models and redesigning curriculums to include somatic action for a forthcoming course that is focused on embodied knowledge and healing.