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Moving the Nomadic Body
How do I structure the map of my ephemeral physical space-time?
Movement and language create space. They create time.
The entanglement of imagination and language in our bodies creates kinetic representations.
‘Moving the nomadic body’ applies movement and choreography as tools of critical thinking, awareness, and political action.
It it a workshop of kinetic composition in which the body moves in the real and the imaginary, while choosing to influence and get influenced.
The body is characterized as a complex entity. The body creates spaces and this is expressed by its performativity in space.
Following the feminist geographer Massey, the workshop activates the three notions of space: discursive - imaginary - corporeal and aims to build new maps.
The workshop offers a different way of interacting with the written words and the reasoning space. How our body, by choosing to reject the hierarchy of the mind in understanding language, can perceive and move language differently?
The more sensitive the body is in its ‘ relational representations’, the more power has to act and inform space as a practice of possibilities, shaped by continuous representations and effects of self and other material relations.
The term ‘nomadic body’ has been influenced by the theory of nomadic subjectivity (Deleuze, Guattari, 1985) by stating free thought that travels away from domination and categorization. A nomadic body that perceives the ‘worn standard notions of hegemony’ and moves away from passivity and stagnation.
| Dance Practitioner |
Luftig
LUFTIG enters a haptic world of moving air. As far as our sense of sight is concerned, air does not exist. Perhaps that is why it is often ‘overlooked’ as a material. Yet we breathe it, feel it, move within it. The air holds us together. It fills the void between us, connecting us to each other and everything else. Our research series on air explores the idea of wind as a mediator of tactile aesthetic experiences.
Concept: Lisa Hinterreithner, Laura Navndrup Black
Facilitators and Performers: Sonia Ntova, Helmi Järvensivu, Esther Wrobel, Tanya Rydell Montan, Lucía Jaén Serrano
Argekultur, 2018
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