ecological : bodying
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Starting with the premise that we do not know what a body can do I ask the following questions:
Ecological: What physical practices or material or conceptual or metaphorical resources might help us (each uniquely situated), living and working in a time of extreme ecological precarity, to reorient our perceptions about ecological pasts, presents, and futures? How might each of us pay particular attention to the histories of imperialism, slavery, and colonial exploitation, as we investigate the historical, economic, and cultural relations among humans and nonhumans?
Bodying: How might rehearsal and performance practices offer worlding practices through which body-ings emerge in new ways? What if the contours of a body were never intact? Where does a body end?
How might scores craft emergent body-ings that are composed of and compose with the attentional and material ecologies that move through them? Does the addition of a suffix –ing- denoting the verbal noun phrase shift the body and world from a being to a doing; to a changing generative process?
