Dorsal Practices: Vibrating with the Hum of the World
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author(s): Emma Cocker
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This exposition presents recordings of a live improvisatory performative reading practice activated as part of the artistic research project Dorsal Practices, a collaboration between choreographer Katrina Brown and writer-artist Emma Cocker. This performative reading practice was activated as a way of generating the textual component of a journal article by Brown and Cocker entitled 'Dorsal Practices — Vibrating with the Hum of the World', submitted to the Special Issue ‘On Landscape’, Performance Research Journal. The article itself is comprised of textual fragments that have been distilled from the transcript of this reading practice.
Adelheid Mers: Longitude
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author(s): Adelheid Mers
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Events in chronological order.
16th International Conference on Artistic Research, University of Porto
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author(s): 16th International Conference on Artistic Research
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Resonance:
The past decade witnessed the appearance of new debating spaces in artistic research. At a time when art and culture, local and global policies, and events are haunted by societal challenges as vast as they are unpredictable, what can artistic researchers offer in response to these concerns? How can artistic research resonate beyond its specific contexts and disciplinary borders?
Resonance is a prompt to address the transformative nature of artistic research as a connective element that evokes a response and qualifies our experiences as meaningful.
However, it can also be understood as a critical tool characterizedcharacterised by reciprocity and mutual transformation. Resonance is a response to personal and societal challenges both poetically and through modes of political imagination and transformative meeting spaces.
Getting into resonance is to create a relation between artistic research and the world that requires questioning and answering, but also the ability to change and be changed.
Staging Afternoon Landscapes
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author(s): Elena Peytchinska, Eva-Maria Schaller
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With the project "Staging Afternoon Landscapes," we propose an exploration of cross-disciplinary spatial practices: on the one hand, by experimenting with spatial and material constellations of kinship in the context of dance performance, and on the other, by transmedial activating multilayered spatiality, applying drawing as a method for spatial practice.
This research project was conducted during our artist residency at Im_Flieger, Vienna, from March 2024 to January 2025.
The Appearance of the More (Beyond Borders)
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author(s): Emma Cocker
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The Appearance of the More (Beyond Borders)
Dorsal Practices
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author(s): Emma Cocker, Katrina Brown
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Initiated in 2020, Dorsal Practices is a collaboration between choreographer Katrina Brown and writer-artist Emma Cocker, for exploring the notion of dorsality in relation to how we as moving bodies orient to self, others, world. How does the cultivation of a back-oriented awareness and attitude shape and inform our experience of being-in-the-world? A dorsal orientation foregrounds an active letting go, releasing, even de-privileging, of predominant social habits of uprightness and frontality — the head-oriented, sight-oriented, forward-facing, future-leaning tendencies of a culture intent on grasping a sense of the world through naming and control. Rather than a mode of withdrawal, of turning one’s back, how might a back-leaning orientation support a more open and receptive ethics of relation? How are experiences of listening, voicing, thinking, shaped differently through this tilt of awareness and attention towards the back?
