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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.
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Moving the Senses
Collaboration between: Sheila de Val Madsen , Laura Navndrup Black, Head of Dance Partnership programme, Danish National School of Performing Arts, Helmi Järvensivu, Tanya Rydell Montan, Sonia Ntova, Lucía Jaen Serrano, Esther Wrobel (as MFA Dance and Participation Partnership students), Dance Artist and choreographer, Lucy Suggate and Jane Bendix, Education and Development Officer, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Denmark.
This movement participatory experience was created for the exhibition of PATRICIA PICCININI – A WORLD OF LOVE, to create and engage the gallery visitors in multi-sensory encounters.
Sheila de Val Madsen , have been conducted her artistic research focusing on how to create an ‘ecology of participation’ where adaptability, coexistence and agency, within the gallery architecture, is prioritised for the gallery visitors. The dance practitioners worked on engaging kinaesthetic empathy and awareness and presenting an ‘invitation’ to gallery visitors to engage in movement encounters, offering an alternative perception when viewing the works of art.
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