TY - JOUR

T1 - Towards Radical Intimacy with The More-than-Human in Co-Somatic Performance

AU - Pogoda, Sarah

PY - 2023/10/1

Y1 - 2023/10/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Somatic Movement

KW - Performance

KW - Kinesthetic

KW - More than human

KW - Interspecies Sociality

KW - Site-specificity

U2 - 10.14220/9783737015257.75

DO - 10.14220/9783737015257.75

M3 - Article

VL - 2

SP - 75

EP - 90

JO - TRANSPOSITIONES. Zeitschrift für transdisziplinäre und intermediale Kulturforschung

JF - TRANSPOSITIONES. Zeitschrift für transdisziplinäre und intermediale Kulturforschung

SN - 2749-4128

IS - 2

ER -