Ecologies of Embodiment: Video Essays II

Abstract

Dominique Rivoal, "The Shared Space of Hackney Marshes" (9:04). My aim as the filmmaker is to develop a somatically informed film-making practice, investigating how attending to soma while operating my camera, can further reveal aspects of relationality within the filmmaker and mover dyad and environment that contains us. // Daniel Portelli, "What the River Doesn't Say About Itself" (9:55). Along a river surrounded by branches and root systems of a mangrove forest, musicians drift on a boat performing music and engaging in eco-acoustical awareness, sensory activation, and perceptual openness. This video essay inquiries into the relationship between cinematic art and how we experience ecology. // Florian Goeschke, "Of Speeds and Slownesses: Co-composing with a Giant Snail" (6:18). The video essay reflects the process of co-composing with a giant snail. What began as a lecture in the context of an online conference for Artistic Research turned out to be a multi-layered phenomenon in dealing with the question of one's own time and temporality and that of another species. // Fani Kostourou and Takako Hasegawa with Theatrum Mundi and Dancing Architects, "Embodied Understanding of Spatial Transformation" (8:55). This is an excerpt montage from a longer film work documenting the choreographic movement research and spatial observation experiments that took place during Theatrum Mundi’s Movement Lisbon Lab in October 2021, to address Lisbon’s uneven and seemingly inaccessible urban landscape.

Keywords

• relational
• somatic
• correspondence
• mangrove forests
• cinematic dispositif
• heterotopic coupling