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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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Σcores
Σcores is a performative relational learning through movement. It is a collective choreographic synthesis, a participant- involving choreography permitting contingency and potentiality to occur.
After an introductory talk about the theories and the aim of this workshop/ performance/ documentation within this research, participants met next day to warm up their 'expanded' bodies and produce thoughts/ phrases that became the actual score of the performative experience.
Σcores follows these surreal phrases of language and move the bodies while permitting the influence every time by the 'discursive, imaginary and corporeal' space to appear.
Σcores happened, after the first confinement regulations of Covid 19 in Greece/ summer 2020.
Human participants: Christina, Eleni, Ilias, Artemis, Tzeni, Billy, Sonia.
Region: Meteora, Greece
This video is the artistic documentation by all the participants. The cameras are also following the score of movement.
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