Dorsal Practices - Murky Back Thinking by Emma Cocker

In progress Dorsal Practices — Murky Back Thinking 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 orientate to self, others, world. How does cultivation of a back-oriented awareness and attitude shape and inform our experience of being-in-the-world? The dorsal orientation foregrounds 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 backwards-leaning orientation support an 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?

DORSAL PRACTICES

Katrina Brown + Emma Cocker

[a work-in-process archive/record of ongoing enquiry]

Practice documentation: Collage of two separate 'conversations' exploring the etymological associations of specific words (relating to our 'dorsal enquiry' emerging in and through a process of dialogue.

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