Lab 3: A Nightime Philosophical Walk
Royal Park
Feb 8th, 2024.
7-9pm.
How are you relating to the world? How do you go visiting? What theories and philosophy are you reading to inspire your feelings of interconnectedness with the world? How are you listening to yourself, to others, to the flora and fauna of the places you inhabit? To the materials of the built environment co-existing with the sky and waterways which are being affected by the changing climate and population conditions?
In this Worlding workshop we read philosophy together as we engage in immersive opportunities to investigate bodied, sensory experience of place and time; in movement and conversation. The invitation is to explore through curated experiences of bodily attunement, movement and documented ephemeral art making which mobilise conscious awareness to our interconnectedness with the world. The immersive activities we call micro-choreographic scores, draw upon dance choreography and somatic practices and take place moving along local creeks, seabeds, urban industrial environments. They offer opportunities to slow down to notice, to prompt imagination, to learn at different scales of dilation, and to feel through sensing and expression our human-ness in a more than human world. Also to revisit the unknown, the preverbal, the sensing body in activity. Underpinned by the knowledge that all in the world is constantly in flow, in flux, in movement, from the cells of the body to the swell of the seas and weather in its dynamic revelations, the Worlding series hones in on this life world dance. How are we influencing the world ? How are we being influenced? How are we caring for the world? How is the world stewarding us? What more can we come to know, experience,share and tend to if we attune to our environments, our ecological body in conversation always with the ecologies of the planet?
In this Worlding workshop we read philosophy together as we engage in immersive opportunities to investigate bodied, sensory experience of place and time; in movement and conversation. The invitation is to explore through curated experiences of bodily attunement, movement and documented ephemeral art making which mobilise conscious awareness to our interconnectedness with the world. The immersive activities we call micro-choreographic scores, draw upon dance choreography and somatic practices and take place moving along local creeks, seabeds, urban industrial environments. They offer opportunities to slow down to notice, to prompt imagination, to learn at different scales of dilation, and to feel through sensing and expression our human-ness in a more than human world. Also to revisit the unknown, the preverbal, the sensing body in activity. Underpinned by the knowledge that all in the world is constantly in flow, in flux, in movement, from the cells of the body to the swell of the seas and weather in its dynamic revelations, the Worlding series hones in on this life world dance. How are we influencing the world ? How are we being influenced? How are we caring for the world? How is the world stewarding us? What more can we come to know, experience,share and tend to if we attune to our environments, our ecological body in conversation always with the ecologies of the planet?
Image: Dhudhuroa, Taungurung, Waywurru, Gunaikurnai and Jaithmathang (2022), Emily Bowman.
We live, work and dance on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.
This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.