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Contribution short abstract
As Students of Mediation in Dance we would like to draw attention to different forms and characteristics of relationships that we are moving through, also as a way to acknowledge them, and notice them, and maybe inquire their varying dimensions from the un/communing lens.
Contribution long abstract
The shaping of relationships lies at the core of processes of commoning and uncommoning. Commoning is at its core a process of shaping relationships. As Students of Mediation in Dance we would like to draw attention to different forms and characteristics of relationships that we are moving through, also as a way to acknowledge them, and notice them, and maybe inquire their varying dimensions from the un/communing lens. We aim to invite a critical sensing of all the often unnoticed relationships that we are taking part of - from the most natural dimension of relating, such as breathing, to more social realities of relating, like relating in power-structures of, for instance, spatial planning.
How do bodies relate to different urban spaces, let it be a museum, a neighborhood street, a queer bar, or a busy transportation hub? How do these spaces relate to and interact with our bodies? How do spaces embrace some and exclude others? How are relationships negotiated and transformed in spaces? How do people negotiate belonging over a public space? How do we negotiate with untold histories of the common that define whom a space belongs to? How do bodies relate to each other in those spaces of assumed public encounters? How do bodies –their presence, movements, interconnections, sensorial impulse—complicate our narratives about the public commons?
With these questions in mind, we create a way to move individually and collectively in and around the exhibition centralizing the museum space. We will provide tools of dance mediation to develop a collective sensibility towards sensing and perceiving relationships surrounding the museum space. This is an invitation to bring awareness to one’s own situatedness and relationships with present and non-present bodies, palimpsest of the space, pieces of thoughts and critiques, and resonances of the outside world of the museum.
Out of Focus. Un/Commoning Curatorial Practices through Multimodal Engagements
Session 1