‘Wanneer ik aan Virginia Woolf en Susan Sontag denk, denk ik aan vorm. [...] vorm geven aan een nieuwe situatie. Gedachten, gevoelens, ervaringen, door het lichaam ingegeven. De schrijver als lichaam en het lichaam als schrijver.’
citaat van Moosje M Goosen uit het essay: De schrijver als lichaam en het lichaam als schrijver, 2022.
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It is through our bodies, our senses and sensibilities that we encounter and move through our world. It is through a hierarchy of senses that we separate and compartmentalise our modes of experience and discard the multitude of registers contained within our bodies. We are taught to look at maps and cartographies, whereas the world moves and transforms with the winds, cracks, breaths, whispers, and chants between us. Embodied inquiry is not only method, but a way of being and transforming through the many relations we have at a given time.
Our new dossier Bodies and Breath: Embodied Research & Writing has been created through rich exchanges we have had with our invited guests who were asked to host workshops on embodied writing and research.
We hope you enjoy the four contributions on Embodied Research & Writing below. We invite you to listen to a new podcast and join the event on research today!
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Bodies and Breath: Embodied Research & Writing | visual essay & interview
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visual essay by Kexin Hao
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Through the visual essay The Timeless Morphs: 3 Body Sessions, visual artist and designer Kexin Hao takes us through her experience of alienation and folds her recollections into (collective) histories of the moving body.
We spoke to Kexin on embodied research and writing, and how she works along with collective narratives that are imbued with “political heaviness” through humor and sarcasm. Follow this link to find the visual essay and the conversation between Kexin Hao and Rana Ghavami
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Fragment from the essay: MY BODY IS A HOUSE by Jeanine van Berkel, 2022.
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Bodies and Breath: Embodied Research & Writing | essay & interview
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essay by Jeanine van Berkel
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Jeanine van Berkel’s prose moves us from inside her mouth to the core, along dust and bones, listening to memories and silences as they slip between dreams, inherited histories, and imagination. We spoke to her about how her body houses her urge to listen to ‘archival silences’ and memories residing within herself and the (un)known histories of her motherlands. Read the essay via this link
During a conversation we asked her how she sees her work as part of an ongoing research to shape silences through words, materials, pauses, readings, workshops, and installations. Read our conversation with Jeanine van Berkel here
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Bodies and Breath: Embodied Research & Writing | essay & website
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project by Hannah Dawn Henderson
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In the prose essay The Archive who Breathes, Hannah Dawn Henderson proposes a re-imagining of what may constitute an ‘archive’, addressing how testimonies of intergenerational traumas often elude formal documentation, and are otherwise materialised through psycho-somatic expression. Have a look at the website and read the essay here
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Meditatiekussens van linnen tasjes, 2019 – ongoing Nienke Terpsma. Beeld: Luuk Smits.
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Bodies and Breath: Embodied Research & Writing | essay
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essay door Moosje M Goosen
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Geïnspireerd door essays van Susan Sontag en Virginia Woolf onderzoekt Moosje M Goosen in dit essay de verbinding tussen lichaam en schrijver en schrijver en lichaam. Lees het essay op onze website
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Body and Power(lessness) | podcast
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podcast by Sharon Stewart
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In the three-part podcast series Listening to the In-Between we will put the rich practice of Deep Listening® into a broader context. In this second episode, Deep Listener Sharon Stewart invites us to participate in embodied rituals of attention, a practice of listening to or sensing aspects of power and powerlessness in the world that surrounds us. This reconnected her to the ground-breaking work of Audre Lorde, “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power”. Listen to the podcast here
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Monday 5 December 14:00-15:00 | Library Zwolle Art & Design/Theatre
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If you are interested in artistic research, we invite you to come along and listen to the research strategies that have helped the practitioners from Education in the Arts: Suzanne Dikker, Yuliya Globa and Anne Rouwmaat. At this event, we will also tackle questions about publishing and presenting research, and how to publish an article APRIA. For more information about this Event and Doing (Artistic) Research visit our website via this link.
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