Towards Radical Intimacy with The More-than-Human in Co-Somatic Performance

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Metamorffosis Movement is a somatic movement experiment exploring intimate inter-species connectivity and opening up ways of staging the entanglement between the human and more-than-human through embodiment. Drawing on notions of art engaging with the more-than-human (Cianchi 2015) or concepts of inter-species creativity, this research challenges paradigms of modern Western aesthetics, ranging from authorship to beauty. This article will be the first to introduce the concept of co-somatic performance and consider notions of uncanny intimacy, thus enabling an understanding of how inter-species connectivity translates into an aesthetic experience for performers and audiences of Metamorffosis Movement. Using a transcorporeal analysis of Metamorffosis Movement, including its multisensory, multimodal, cultural and ecological dimensions, I will further discuss how its aesthetics subverts concepts of Western normativity and thus carries transformative power beyond the ecological.

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  • Somatic Movement, Performance, Kinesthetic, More than human, Interspecies Sociality, Site-specificity
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)75-90
JournalTRANSPOSITIONES. Zeitschrift für transdisziplinäre und intermediale Kulturforschung
Volume2
Issue number2
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Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2023

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