Research question: How can one deploy the embodiment of conceptions of Amazonian corporality to create a movement practice that can be used as a platform for creating performances?

How can one embody conceptions of Amazonian

Aims:

• Develop the Amazonizing tool box: embodied practices for the impossible task of creating other bodies based on anthropologist’s Els Lagrou research around the conception of body of the Kaxinawa tribe in Acre (BR).
• Introduce concepts, ideas and notions around the body and humanity belonging to ancient Amazonian knowledge in the practice-led artistic research field.

Objectives:

• Deepen knowledge about anthropophagic Amazonian tribes’ cosmology, conceptions of body and humanity and cannibalism and funerary rituals through the lenses of Brazilian anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Amerindian Perspectivism)
• Devise a body practice focused on exposing, moving and transforming vibration
• Further develop my body practice that uses the respiratory system as ignition for movement into creating altered states of consciousness and perception.
• Design a framework for sharing the tools in a performance event

Methods:

• Literature Review:
• Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. Cannibal Metaphysics. Trans. Peter Skafish. Minneapolis: Univocal Publishing, 2014
• Lagrou, Els. A Fluidez da Forma. 2017
• Massumi, Brian. The autonomy of Affect. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1995
• Latour, Bruno. How to talk about the body?. Body & Society © 2004 SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi), Vol. 10(2–3): 205–229 DOI: 10.1177/1357034X04042943
• Brabec de Mori, Bernd. About magical singing, sonic perspectives, ambient multinatures, and the conscious experience. 2012
• Kohn, Eduardo. How Forests Think – Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human. 2013
• Haraway, Donna. When Species Meet. 2008
• Post-dance
• go back to other papers previously analysed

• Engage in the embodied practice of “Topologias da Carne: creative processes in contemporary dance or how to create a Body without Organs for oneself” – Juliana Soares Bom-tempo and Aline Pinheiro Salamin

• Follow Steve Paxton’s 1977 Small Dance Guidance (with notes added in 2008)

• Experiment in and outside the studio on the notion of “Second Body” proposed by artists Alina Popa and Florian Flueras

• Kundalini yoga practice

• Reiki practice

• Improvisation practice

• Eastern practices focusing on breath and and circulation of energy

• Experiment with yoni-eggs

• Somatic movement practices (call for imagination)