In the midst of ‘gestures of (re)searching’: intense reading-wording-dialoguing-transcribing-discussing-writing. During the Choreo-graphic Figures:
Deviations of the Line Winter Lab (Vienna, Tanzquartier), we - myself, Mariella
Greil and Nikolaus Gansterer - are working together to develop content for a book chapter entitled Choreo-graphic Figures: Vitality
Gestures and Embodied Diagrammatics,
for inclusion in the forthcoming publication Body Diagrams (eds.) Irene Mittelberg and
Alexander Gerner (2017). The chapter develops from a paper that we presented at the conference
Body Diagrams: On the Epistemic Kinetics
of Gesture back in 2014. In the first part of this residency, we have been developing ideas (developed in previous labs around the relation of 'figuring' and the 'figure' through reading and discussion. The second phase shifts to the Method lab space (see below) at Tanzquartier where we will continue to explore through practicing together.
Choreo—graphic
Figures: Vitality Gestures and Embodied Diagrammatics
Emma
Cocker, Nikolaus Gansterer and Mariella Greil
Abstract
Drawing
on the artistic research project Choreo—graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line (2014
— 2017), this chapter explores how we
have practiced a shift within our collaboration from the disciplinary gestures
of drawing, writing and choreography towards the aesthetic-epistemological
gesture of artistic (re)searching, to give tangible articulation to the pre-gestural register of ‘vitality
forces and affects’ (which we call figuring)
operating before, between and beneath the more readable gestures of artistic
practice. Bringing our practice-as-research into dialogue with theory
(including Brandstetter, Flusser, Manning, Massumi, Sabisch, Stern) we reflect
on our own attempt to render communicable the dynamic experience of figuring within the creative process,
through the production of (choreo—graphic) figures, an expanded system of vitality gestures and embodied diagrammatics.
Key words: aesthetic
episteme; attention; embodied
diagrammatics; figure; figuring; notation; practice-as-research;
praxis; prenoetic; vitality gestures
During this phase of the lab I will be working with Nikolaus Gansterer and Mariella Greil alongside Lilia Mestre and Werner Mobius, to further develop the vocabulary around Radical Scores of Attention initiated in the Summer Method Lab. We will be presenting some of our work in progress on Saturday 12th December at Tanzquartier, from 1700 - 1900.