memory – Researching (in/as) Motion

Eleanor Bauer Documentation / Examination

Eleanor Bauer Documentation / Examination
In a rumination on artistic research processes and their documentation, Bauer addresses notions of memory, process, and preservation in the experimental form of “annotated poem.” Separating the articulation of an idea which considers its form from the explanation and unfolding of its connections to others through citations and anecdotes.
Franc Chamberlain Start SomewhereMemories, Sensations, Speculations, and Practice Research

Franc Chamberlain Start SomewhereMemories, Sensations, Speculations, and Practice Research
Starting ‘somewhere’ and modelling some of the things we might do at the beginning of a practice research project in order to put things in motion, this self-reflexive text draws on autobiographical memories to suggest ways in which these might be used in generating further lines of embodied inquiry.
Zoë Poluch & Cara Tolmie Sensory Literacy

Zoë Poluch & Cara Tolmie Sensory Literacy
Sensory Literacy is a moving-into-writing-into-speaking score practiced and developed by dancer and choreographer Zoë Poluch and Cara Tolmie, artist working with performance, experimental music and moving image. The score offers a way of translating embodiment, of documenting the sensation of experience, of materializing time travel. In practicing and performing the score (it was used in the performance “Aphelion Slip”) we wonder how the sensory choreography given by the composer is a form of writing and if the sensory experience had by the receiver a form of ‘reading’. How might we see the material produced from this practice as a map of associations, of potentiality and translation? What might this tell us about the condition of our bodies both as readers and writers? What do we lose or gain through this mediation via individual interior experience? What does it mean to relate to this mediated testimony?
Amaara Raheem Speaking Dancer in-residence

Amaara Raheem Speaking Dancer in-residence
Speaking Dancer is a ‘persona’. She emerged from my practice, from years of moving, and speaking, and perhaps she also emerged from my art/life relations. As a female, brown, immigrant, independent, dance artist I am of multiple belongings. I have strong allegiances with more than one place, inhabit more than one ‘home’, more than one social, cultural, disciplinary belonging. My experience of ‘home’ and ‘identity’ – as a person, as a dancer – is not fixed, rather continually made and unmade by relations.
John-Paul Zaccarini A writing practice

John-Paul Zaccarini A writing practice
This practice has its roots in psychoanalytic procedure. It posits creative writing as a useful way to situate the artist with the field of research, specifically using memoir to trace the genealogy of the research question.