{"title":"On the Audiovisual","authors":"Ben Spatz","doi":"10.16995/jer.10555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.10555","url":null,"abstract":"We are living through a moment of radical transformation in the audiovisual. Since the beginning of photography, the forging of images has been explored alongside their documentary capacities. For every argument and testimony based on photographic evidence, there was a creative and fictional experiment. Audiovisual recording is always audiovisual creation. The ubiquity of cameras is a defining feature of the present age. Cameras are seemingly everywhere today, in our pockets, in the sky, and yet we are coming no closer to a shared sense of truth or community. Body-worn cameras on police are supposed to prevent excessive violence. But we know that they also capture and make that ongoing violence shareable on a massive, global scale. The work of critical embodied research directly explores such matters of trust, power, and medium. The video articles in this issue of Journal of Embodied Research explore such matters and relations in careful and sensitive ways. They invite us to pause before rushing into the audiovisual maelstrom of social media feeds and digitally generated images. What might be the transformative power of slower approaches to audiovisuality, grounded in sustained practices of reading and touching, knowing and becoming?","PeriodicalId":369443,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Embodied Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128779904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ben Spatz, N. E. Erçin, Caroline Gatt, Agnieszka Mendel
{"title":"He Almost Forgets That There is a Maker of the World","authors":"Ben Spatz, N. E. Erçin, Caroline Gatt, Agnieszka Mendel","doi":"10.16995/jer.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.71","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":369443,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Embodied Research","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122214160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Angela Viora, Al Evangelista, Sonia York-Pryce, C. Vionnet, André Dramé, W. D. Scally, A. Agaronov
{"title":"Six Illuminated Videos","authors":"Angela Viora, Al Evangelista, Sonia York-Pryce, C. Vionnet, André Dramé, W. D. Scally, A. Agaronov","doi":"10.16995/jer.91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.91","url":null,"abstract":"training, competition, and performance in martial arts provide a stage where practitioners’ minds and bodies are continually revised, laying bare the techniques, processes, negotiations, and experiences involved in making and remaking the fighter’s self. through years of training and competition in enshin Karate, a bareknuckle, knockdown-rules karate style, the author’s body—including muscle, bone, skin, coordination, and perception—has changed to fit the art and the sport. sensory shifts are among the most striking of these changes. in the most chaotic and high-pressure moments of training and competition, an experienced fighter may seem to feel sound or hear pain, shifting distracting, demoralizing, or damaging sensory phenomena to another mode better equipped to maintain performance in the moment. sound has come to take on an important haptic and anesthetic role in the author’s martial arts practice. this article shares video taken of the final two of 100 shadowboxing rounds completed in a single session and discusses how this video relates to the author’s direct sensory experience. Years of hard training and high-pressure competition can alter even the perceptive schema and sensory hierarchies that otherwise appear fundamental to our experience, and this video article represents an early step in the exploration of the limits of that directed self-modification. the author describes how, over the course of 100 rounds, sound begins to dominate his sensory experience. this article also demonstrates the potential for sound to cut across forms and media of memory, anchoring and uniting seemingly disjunct representations into an intelligible, if still contradictory, whole. the cultivated reconfiguration of the senses through experience with sites of extreme sensation has profound implications for the understanding of sound’s role in embodiment, complicating and potentially extending everyday understandings of the body’s limits and the limits of self-modification. Analysis of the disjunctures and connections between organically housed personal memory, associated with direct sensory experience, and digitally housed media representing the same phenomenon illuminates the role of particular phenomena—in this case sound—that may otherwise be understood as secondary to the visual in connecting these seemingly divergent mnemonics.","PeriodicalId":369443,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Embodied Research","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132586755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From an Ethics of Estrangement to an Anthropology in Life","authors":"Caroline Gatt, D. Galafassi, Gey Pin Ang","doi":"10.16995/jer.69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.69","url":null,"abstract":"taking difference seriously is a key anthropological aim. recent debates in anthropology surrounding the ‘ontological turn’ have brought to the forefront the need to recognise the extent of epistemological colonialism in anthropological accounts. proponents of the ontological turn have suggested that to take difference seriously anthropologists should engage in recursive anthropology: enabling the concepts they encounter through fieldwork to reconfigure anthropological concepts. Where the ot stumbles is in failing to recognise that it is the entire orthopraxy of anthropology that needs to recursively be reconfigured when encountering difference. herein we offer an experiment in allowing the way of knowing/being of laboratory theatre to affect anthropological orthopraxy, in this case a conference presentation. We argue that opening up the entire craft of anthropology to difference through collaborative processes offers a path towards decolonising anthropology and a method of enquiry that enables processual and ecological attention. the experiment we present aims towards developing a regenerative form of anthropology, attentive to histories of exclusionary relations of power of all sorts.","PeriodicalId":369443,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Embodied Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132424284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dan Strutt, Andreas Schlegel, Neal Coghlan, Clemence Debaig, Youhong ‘Friendred’ Peng
{"title":"New Telematic Technologies for Remote Creation, Rehearsal and Performance\u0000 of Choreographic Work","authors":"Dan Strutt, Andreas Schlegel, Neal Coghlan, Clemence Debaig, Youhong ‘Friendred’ Peng","doi":"10.16995/jer.82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.82","url":null,"abstract":"A goldsmiths based AhrC funded project within the ‘tackling the impact of CoVid-19’ uKri call. in collaboration with LAsALLe College of the Arts singapore, Akram Khan dance Company, and target3d. in this experimental test session recorded in July 2020, two dancers, one in London, and one in singapore, are dancing together, but virtually, each wearing an inertial sensor motion capture system. Live and pre-captured dance data was streamed from a dancer in a similar studio space in LAsALLe college in singapore, some 6700 miles away, with barely noticeable delay or latency. Although with occasional technical glitches, including magnetic interference with the suit, this raw footage operates as proof of concept, and a suggestion of what is to come in the next iteration of our research. We position this research practice within a historical and theoretical problematic of networked or ‘distributed performance’ and of telepresence, telematics, and virtuality in dance practice. it is not about recreating the live experience – of ‘being there’ – but rather finding forms of meaningful connection, engaged interest and attention in a digital medium which is decisively and qualitatively different.","PeriodicalId":369443,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Embodied Research","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117325562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Becoming a Caterpillar: A Multimodal Perspective on Metamorphosis in\u0000 Butoh Dance","authors":"P. Esposito, Dariusz Dziala","doi":"10.16995/jer.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.18","url":null,"abstract":"Butoh is a dance and somatic movement approach that emerged in Japan in the 1960s and today is practiced around the world. Due to its stylistic idiosyncrasies and lack of a formalised movement vocabulary, butoh is often referred to among its practitioners and in the literature as an indeterminate or ‘formless’ dance. While ‘metamorphosis’ has been recognised as butoh’s core aesthetic trait (Fraleigh 2010; Baird and Candelario 2019), what this entails in practice has been little explored. This video article examines metamorphosis in butoh dance from a sensory anthropology perspective which attends to the micro-phenomenological dimensions of the practice. The author, a dancer-anthropologist, focuses on a practice of ‘becoming a caterpillar’ that she learnt at a butoh workshop given by Semimaru of the company Sankai Juku in London in 2014. Through a praxeography of selected exercises, integrated by a somatic or ‘from the body’ perspective (Farnell 1999), the author argues that the same techniques ‘scaffold’ (Downey 2004) metamorphosis by emphasising fluidity of bodily movement as well as the ‘isolation’ of body parts. Perceptual aspects of the practice are explored and reflected upon multimodally through a combination of textual, graphic, dance, and performance reenactments. Responding to ongoing debates on the value of integrating multimodality in anthropological research, practice and dissemination of scholarship, the article proposes that multimodality can extend the conceptual and methodological reach into experiential dimensions of bodily practice by foregrounding both sensory and imaginal aspects of doing. Drawing on anthropological studies of perception in ritual action, the video article argues that butoh metamorphosis relies on a principle of ‘illusion’ whereby a change in the dancer’s kinetic organisation engenders a visual impression of their bodies transforming into something else. This metamorphic logic is by no means exclusive to butoh but is found in other styles of performance, including puppet theatre. Kapferer’s (2004) notion of virtuality is mobilised here to highlight how the reconfiguring of perceptual patterns through performative action can effect transformation by means of ‘modulating reality’ and ‘adjusting its dynamics’. As shown by the example of the caterpillar, in butoh dance the transformation is double: on the optical and imaginal level of the dancer’s bodily form, as coinciding with a ‘view from the outside’, and on the somatic level of the practitioner’s lived body as experienced ‘from the inside’. It is further argued that a butoh dancer’s propension to somatically relate to imaginal dimensions of the practice relies on the phenomenological principle of sensory reversibility, whereby tactility-kinaesthesia ‘merges’ with the sense of vision.","PeriodicalId":369443,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Embodied Research","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121933324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Melissa da Silva Ferreira, Lucy-Lou Marino, Gold Ray Martin, Todd Martin
{"title":"In-Between: Children as Performers","authors":"Melissa da Silva Ferreira, Lucy-Lou Marino, Gold Ray Martin, Todd Martin","doi":"10.16995/JER.81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/JER.81","url":null,"abstract":"In January 2020, I spoke with Lucy-Lou Marino, Gold Ray Martin, and Todd Roosevelt Martin about their experiences as performers in “As deep as I could remember, as far as I could see”, a performance by Swedish-Palestinian artist Tarik Kiswanson for Performa 19 Biennial (New York, November 2019). The interview was conducted through a card game to encourage them to think, talk about, and reenact their participation in the performance. From the recordings of this “performative interview,” this video-article creates a fictional dialogue between the children performers, the artist, and the Martiniquan writer, poet, and philosopher Edouard Glissant, whose “Poetique de la Relation” is a major influence on Kiswanson’s artistic work. Immigration, exile, relation, poetry, identity, and language emerge from the crossing of voices, images, and writings captured in New York City at different times and contexts.","PeriodicalId":369443,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Embodied Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130237290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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