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20.11.24 Sophie Strand

"The body is a Doorway: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope and the Human" Sophie Strand, March 2025

The same author with Flowering Wand

Is there healing beyond the human? Beyond the hope for a cure or happy ending? Is there something wilder and more symbiotic beyond narrow ideas of well-being?

Ecological interconnections with our bodies

Be careful with Western psychology and the colonial somatics

"What if it's just an anthropocentric model that gates out the wily and often ecstatic experience of being ecologically alive and aware?" (from the new book, ig post)

Myths and maps: Ecological Storytelling (workshop)

Does your prayer have roots?

When you look at the magical practices, it's about: how can I be attuned to the seasons? How can ı be attuned to my own body and the relationship to the season?And we're at the moment in time where, because of climate crisis, and we're kind od siloed from being effected by the weather, by the season, by agricultural patterns, but we're going to be more and more sensitive to those. And I hope perhaps it is that understanding taht pushing people towards magic." (ig post, talk with David Abram)

"If we are going to survive we are going to need to tie our roots to other roots." Ecosystem is more resilient as they become more complex and interdependent, the nodes of connection, the wider the range of the species diversity and collaboration.

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Gry Worre Hallberg (performance artist, researcher)

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https://arthubcopenhagen.net/en/media_item/bureau-for-listening-fragments-for-listening/

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choreographing ecocritical route

Choreo-dramaturging of AnthropoceneLecture  by Eylül Fidan Akıncı In conjunction with the screening, Akıncı will give a lecture to contextualize Eiko Otake's extended performance series as an artistic response in the aftermath of Fukushima disaster. What is the performance artists' task at the age of Anthropocene? As the public and scholarly conversations tackle the term “Anthropocene” and its propriety to name the geo-ecological epoch we are in, it becomes clear that we need critical and creative tools to retain sight of the planetwide commons of disasters.

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Charlotte J Ward

Charlotte J Ward (@charlotte.jward) is an eco-somatic artist in service of Earth and Women. Born in 1992, to a British mother and a French father, respectively from Russian and Kabyle descent, Charlotte J Ward is currently based between Paris and the Dordogne. Coming from a predominantly documentary and portrait photography background, Ward graduated from the London College of Communication in 2014, with a Photography BA (Hons). In 2020, her practice took a new turn, as she delved into somatic movement explorations and menstrual cycle awareness. Ward began immersing herself into the practice of self-portraiture; placing her work at the crossroad between embodied movement, activism and fine art photography, with a particular interest in natural cycles, eco-somatics, and the intrinsic state of inter-being between the human and Earth bodies. Working with her own body as an instrument, Ward has been exploring these themes through her ongoing series ‘Moon Blood’ and ‘This Earth Body Is My Home’. Two bodies of works which explore the cyclical nature of Life from both a micro and macro perspective.

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 aims to address questions of embodied recovery and revisioning in the context of global ethical, social and ecological crises and change. Somatic practices have moved beyond a field of sensorial, experiential and emancipatory learning into wider educational, therapeutic, artistic and social-justice contexts.

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Research Group: Creative Corporealities