#Ecosomatics

[altrbody]

Experiments in Supine Possibilities

"...Inspired by the Black radical tradition, Black surrealist aesthetics and the work we do together in Church, this lab asks participants to physically and spiritually reorient themselves to the political mandates of our radical black feminist demands for a new world. What happens if instead of facing each crisis ‘head on,’ we bear witness to it belly up? The body supine is a vulnerable thing, an open thing, an invitation for rest and the risk of invasion. We see Black bodies supine in death and in spectacle performances of protest like die-ins, but what of our most intimate acts of laying down? Informed by the intersection of Black feminism and Disability Justice, ‘Experiments in Supine Possibilities’ is an attempt to think and create from the Black disabled bodymind experience of the world in crisis. How many of us have been laid out by depression, fatigue, apathy, chronic pain in the face of these converging crises? How many of us are scared to lay down for fear we might not get back up? What happens when Abolitionist Strategy emanates from this place as opposed to from militant postures of self denial?"

[animystsoul]

EARTH MAGIC

๛Do you feel into the space of touch between you & the Earth?

⚬ If you try you will find no dividing line between your body & the Earth, you & the Earth, are one continuous being.

“Without the emotive sacrifices from the people (work on the land with love), the land will take the blood of the bodies through war in stead.”

⚬ We are not really “on” the Earth, but “in” the Earth.

⚬ If you shift perspective from perceiving things from the “outside in” & looking at the outer surfaces of things; but rather sink your attention into your body, you may “perceive” through your “felt-perception” & “inner sight”, rather than through “outer sight”; and from within, you can feel your deep energetic connectedness with the Earth, electrons & magnetism passing through your feet & the soil of the Earth.

⚬ Through modern eyes we cannot think there once was a time of a “vibrational-resonance” science that used body & Earth sacred practices that used terrestrial forces (magnetism, land electricity) in such way to facilitate the growth of crops.

⚬ The currents that pass naturally through the land were felt to flow through the body, & so the body & the land is energetically felt to pulse as one being.

⚬ Ecstasy & joy, the bliss of being & aliveness flows in a circuit between the body & the Earth, circulating & transducing energy between planetary bodies & the people sustaining deeper energetic wellbeing & the feeling of belonging to the Earth, & belonging within the order of the Cosmos.

⚬ Severance of the bond with Nature, deprives the people of the energetic nourishment of the Mother (Nature & Earth) & deprives the land of the energetic input of love, through work as worship, from the people.

⚬ Breaking the circuit, weakens the land & the people, there is waste & there is loss, the balance is disturbed because it is not understood (indigenously, animistically), understanding with the mind is only a partial understanding of the complex relationship between people & the land.

⚬ Without the balance & sacrifices as work required, the land will take the blood of the bodies through war in stead, blood as the outer form of life-force currents.

#magic #ecospirituality

[magdalene-spirit]

We could do nothing so subversive

We could do nothing so healing

Than to fan the primal and chthonic

Lifeforce

into long curving tongues of flame licking at the edges of human

awareness

seducing the humans back home to Earth.”

"A Witch's Eco-Erotica" by Morion

Webster.

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#witch #lifeforce #chthonic #morionwebster #ecoerotic #ecosomatics

[disdancetune]

I wonder why Lawrence evokes the visual of bodyness so much

As in, does he resort to a pre-diagnostic framing of female same-s*x desire?

By depicting bodies in the process of impairment, leaving it up to negotiation whether the s*x does the impairing or the ecosomatic conditions of post war culture?

He never really positions himself too clearly, except I guess the ending is tantamount to sapphics being granted a proper consciousness (she is still a self-thinking judging gaging feeling being, unengulfed)

But including the pre-diagnostic (the pre-identity, the bodily change dimension) in framing bodies is interesting (this of course in conjunction with hystericising, which in a different way is linked to physical changes)

So I guess a juxtaposition of the uterine (physical movement) and the clitoral (also movements, but linked to regendering) is thrilling, as in how do they restory female bodyness

[isabellarosestudio6]

Week 3: Research/Notes

Looking into 'Blindside ARI' Melbourne:

Website:

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/blindside_ari/?hl=en

Notes:

Bio from website "Based in Naarm/Melbourne, Blindside is a leading platform for new and critical dialogues, contemporary art and bold ideas. Operating as an artist-run initiative since 2004, Blindside prioritizes diverse programming; provides paid opportunities for artists; builds critical exchange; facilitates artist-led development; and promotes cross-organisational partnerships. Expanding the sphere of artistic practice, Blindside’s cross-disciplinary programming contributes to the vibrant arts ecology of the city."

Emerged 2004

Artist-run contemporary art community/gallery.

Experimental x Cross-disciplinary.

Artists working or exhibiting at Blindside:

Emerging Artist: Caitlin Dear

"Caitlin Dear is an multidisciplinary artist and discursive practitioner with special interests in collectivity, ecosomatics and perceptual experience. Coming from a dance background, Caitlin employs choreographic thinking and embodied approaches across the diverse tendrils of their practice. They create sensorially and intellectually engaging experiences, whether it be an experimental talk, action in a gallery, performance in a theatre or outdoor engagement in a public setting."

"QUALIA"

View of audience members blindfolded. Performance occurs without direct sight from "viewers". Instead focuses on the experience of the periphery. Performers, moving through choreography, but with no watchers but themselves.

Link to recording: https://vimeo.com/228644563

"In a space for shared exploration and sensory encounter, Qualia investigates the nature and continuity of human perception. Four dancers navigate experiential shifts, meditating on perspective and examining the ineffable."

I have been interested in finding artists also working in the intersection of contemporary dance and art.

Whilst it is not the easiest sub-section of art practice to research (dance practitioners appear to be hidden a little bit from art canon/academia), I am slowly forming a list.

'Compass in Hand' art film by Josie Alexandra

"Throughout Compass in Hand - I weave in rebirth and transformation from multiple dimensions. Through filmatic devices of editing, frame size, color grading, these themes of rebirth and transformation are articulated via shifting temporalities of narrative, with nonlinear and blurred boundaries. The shifting temporal narratives are within the mythic, the spiritual, the ritual, the medical. As, I have experienced or had rebirth and transformation facilitated by access different dimensions."

- Link to catalogue text/ reference:

"Compass In Hand is a 9 minute experimental cinematic-sonic experience which departed from the perspective that “I was born in a wasteland of other peoples’ dreams” - aka the paradigm of the neo-liberal cis-het white supremacy patriarchy. Through processes of re-mythologisation, performance, ritual and the blurring of the medical and other realms within the pluriversal existence, Compass in Hand is the acknowledgment and reclaiming of agency and epistemology of the survivor, the neurodivergent, & the trans beings within the spiral of time.

- Link to reference site and full-length film:

Poem written which inspired the film series:

Thoughts after watching film:

very scifi retrofuturist

Intrigued by the use of jumping timelines and different frame sizes throughout. Effective way to elude to ideas of multidimensions, passing time, memory perhaps?

Love the layers of mythology and symbolism, would be interested in using this in my own works.

Would love to create a film using similar tactics.

Very performative/choreographic, which is fitting for the theme of neurodivergence and operating in a capitalist society, aka: "wasteland of other people's dreams"

Effective use of poetry, where the words are almost undiscernible throughout the film, instead they seem to come and go, brushing through the ears in soft waves. Mimics also a sense of meditation soundtracks.

[towardsaspeculativenature]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CPN_IewASga/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

[mysticnymph420]

[queerbrownvegan]

Ecosomatics: The Body And Earth As One

[alexborgen]

Sometimes I collaborate with really great artists. Sometimes I capture movement. Wish I had documentation of the really good movement-focused rendering. // Sometimes we talk about #ecoart and #movement -- #bodypolitics and #space -- #ecosomatics and #landuse -- #comfort and privilege and #discomfort and #change // #meglouisedance #breakwall #creativerenderings

[animystsoul]

The Sophia impulse

Plunged from on high

As she separated

From sky

She concretised

As materiality & Earth

Earth is her body,

the body of the Goddess

Called Wisdom

Between sky above

The source of heat & light energy

And Earth below

Where the green plants grow

Is the space filled with a bond of love,

the attractive force,

that holds everything in an inherent embrace

Down the light pours for the greens plants to make organic life,

glowing with auras of organic light…

The pull of the Earth for the light of the sky is a magnetic call

And so between sky & Earth,

Masculine & Feminine,

exists the imperishable bond

of filaments of spirited love

#gaia #animism

[queerbrownvegan]

our bodies are technology ⚡ from my collaboration with my friend Kalpana, founder of Nowadays On Earth. Ecosomatics is the intersection between ecology, the environment, and the lived experience of the body. Studies from eco-psychologists show us that our human-nature relationship is multilayered. Ecosomatics connects us to an experiential understanding of the body where we are able to sense, feel and reorient towards our ecological identity, while more deeply understanding ourselves in the context of the environment & our evolution.

Ecosomatics is an interdisciplinary field that perceives the body through an ecological lens, drawing its framework from somatics and deep ecology. The term somatics, which refers to the living body and the body-mind system, was coined in the 1970s by Thomas Hanna, but draws its methodology from indigenous practices and knowledge of the human body as it relates to its environment. Ecosomatics considers the effects of the body on its environment and how the environment shapes and interacts with the experiences of the body. Central to its practice is a reclaiming of both body and land, restoring sovereignty of space and place to the Earth.

How can we begin to practice ecosomatics? Through the direct observation of the body and its relationship to the land.

Our bodies are one of our most immediate connections to the earth and to humanity as a whole. Every person on this planet lives within a body,  providing us with a shared experience of a sense of place on earth. The interconnectedness between ourselves/cells and the environment can be felt within the evolutionary genetics of the body and is itself expressed through our environments. When we develop a relationship with the body we are able to perceive this field of interconnectivity and interact with the world around us with more ecologically-based behaviours facilitating a positive impact on both individual and planetary health. design by @ecoinprogress ❤️ more on my instagram