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Dorsal Practices  unfolds through practice-based exploration involving the three-fold interrelation of various movement, conversation and reading practices for addressing: How is the embodied experience of a dorsal orientation? What forms of writing/language can be developed in fidelity to these embodied experiences of dorsality? Since January 2021, Brown and Cocker have engaged in a live enquiry for investigating the physical experience of back-ness, exploring a dorsal orientation through exercises including lying down, axial rotation, transition from back-ness into movement. These explorations were accompanied by a process of conversation for reflecting with-and-through the embodied experiences of physical practice, often undertaken back-to-back as a way for heightening attention to the experience of listening and being listened to, for allowing the possibility of an emergent “dorsal voicing”. The transcripts from these conversations are reactivated and re-organised through various experimental reading practices where a mode of linguistic sense-making — conceived as an experimental approach to textual production — emerges live through the interplay of spoken word, two voices interweaving within the occasionality of dialogic encounter.

PHASE I | PROCESS/PRACTICE 

JAN - OCT 2021

* BACK-NESS: IN LYING DOWN

* BACK-NESS: IN ROTATION

* BACK-NESS: IN TRANSITION 

* BACK-NESS: IN MOVEMENT

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* PHASE I: DISTILLATION

 

 

PHASE II | PROCESS/PRACTICE

JAN - NOVEMBER 2022 

EXPLORING SCORES/PROMPTS I  

EXPLORING SCORES/PROMPTS II

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* PRACTICE: FROM TRANSCRIPT 

* PRACTICE: PERHAPS

* PRACTICE: WALKING BACKWARDS I

* PRACTICE: WALKING BACKWARDS II

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* PHASE I + II: DISTILLATION *

* PERFORMATIVE READING (NOV '22)

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* SHARING I (SENTIENT PERFORMATIVITIES)

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PHASE III | PROCESS/PRACTICE

OCT 2022 - FEBRUARY 2024 

* PRACTICE: RE-TURNING I (OCT '22)

* PRACTICE: RE-TURNING II (NOV '22)

* PRACTICE: RE-TURNING III (JAN '23)

* PRACTICE: RE-TURNING IV (MAY '23)

* PRACTICE: MICRO-TURNING (JULY' 23)

* PRACTICE: RE-TURN LISTENING (DEC '23)

* PRACTICE: RE-TURN LISTENING (FEB '24)

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* PHASE III - DISTILLATION

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* SHARING II (SAR 2023, TRONDHEIM)

 

 


PHASE IV | PROCESS/PRACTICE [IN PERSON]

FEB 2024 >

* PRACTICE I: TOTNES (2-6 APRIL 2024)

* PRACTICE II: EXCHANGE PLACE (12-19 JUL '24)

* PRACTICE III: 

* PRACTICE IV: 

* PRACTICE V: 

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* SHARING II (FALMOUTH FEB 2024)