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Embodiment je t’aime

An embodied research collective

THE BODY AS LABORATORY

As bodies in the era of (post)Corona digital revolution, we are in a fertile and confusing buffer zone for imagining and reshaping our lives. We are confronted with the challenges related to communication and concentration even though we are being offered considerable tools to reach out to each other. Somatics investigate how imagination and cognition can be taken as full-body experiences. How can we investigate more systematically the intro and outro inspections of our bodily experiences by taking them as complementary? How can we link desires and fantasies with realities? What are the emotional experiences from the point of view of a first person narrative and for people who share presence? How do we experience digital presence? Are there other dimensions in experience that we avoid to describe? How does memory link to the present? How do human bodies create, transmit, store and reform realities; how does the spontaneousness of these occurrences transform into what is more perdurable?

Embodiment je t’aime is forming a synesthetic multidimensional constellation of carbon and non-carbon based energies. Taking advantage of the diversity of reality settings, and regarding their bodies as ‘3 embodied laboratories’, the group investigates, designs and follows different modes of viewpoints, and a series of observations, experiments and rituals to see how boundaries (or boundlessness) between bodies, minds, through digital and tangible realms (might) function for finding ways of sharing realities as an open space for embodied togetherness.

The group approaches the study in relation to these 3 modes:

1. Body as archive

2. Body as intuition

3. Body as imagination

Embodiment Je t’aime was developed with artists Alexandra Duvekot and Ilgın Deniz Akseloğlu

as part of Dutch Art Institute Reality Settings Study Group between March-September 2020.

The research involved a series of lab sessions between the three artists and a curated programme of embodied-somatics work

carried out online with all members of the group during the first months of the pandemic.

The current pictures are taken from facilitation/mentorship sessions with performance artists and somatics expert Anna Tzakou.

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