This articles excites my tissues as it encourages and validates somatic dancing researchers and their careful modes of attention and passionate attachment to bodily and moving matters.
The author puts into words how artists could meet scientists and how to use art practices to decolonize our sensorium. She beautifully describes how to be off the science, entangled, passionate and within rather than detached, objective and un-changing. The author raises some important questions regarding objectivity and universalism which I think is vital for dance teaching artists sourcing and referencing knowledge from science.
Feminist science practices asks us to contextualise and situate claims or knowledge and challenges us that attention and perception needs to be re-trained allowing for more bodies and more ways of knowing to be included. Further the author presents her own artistic research practices, giving example on other ways of attunements to capture reality.
Reference
Title: Protocols for an Ungrid-able Ecology
Subtitle: Kinesthetic Attunements for a More-than-Natural History of a Black Oak Savannah
Author: Natasha Myers
Credits
Photo: Connective Tissue Tendon © Berkshire Bioscience Library
