Research

The Floating Village focuses on developing co-creative practice in rural contexts, through body and movement knowledge. Coming from dance, choreography and visual arts perspectives, this combined approach to body land relationships draws from both archaeological and ecological inquiry, exploring with urgency transdisciplinary methods to co-create with communities, both real (established) /imaginary (future). This forms a choreo-curatorial practice that is committed to nurturing an ethical space that can hold diversity and yet support creative autonomy, motivated by soft devotion to radical change

Our philosophy and practice draws from an interest in the materiality, malleability and morphology of the body in active dialogue with place. Writerly practices and theoretical fields that we have found delightfully supportive and illustrative of such ongoing discoveries traverse landscapes such as Environmental Humanities, Eco Somatics, Deep Mapping, Radical Empathy, Hydrocorporeality, Care, Experimental Heritage, Perceptual Place-based Methodologies, Eco Feminism and Land Justice. Below are a few openings in the form of wordings, articulating thresholds of sensory scholarship and illuminating their presence through active readership, resonance and curiosity....enjoy!

Burren College of Arts Arts Residency, Ballyvaughan, Co Clare. February 2020

Following a two week residency at the Burren College of Art (February 2020), we have been exchanging somatic practices, listening to how our bodies perceive shifts in temperature, terrain and territory, and reflecting on how movement based arts practices orient physical perceptions of space in relation to change.

Articulating Thresholds

ARTICULATED THRESHOLDS describes a series of public conversations and embodied dialogue, where Maria and Rachel have been developing movement land explorations in the Burren region of County Clare, asking how adaptation might act as a strategy to inform our conscious encounter with radical change.

To date, there have been three open studio sharings, in the Burren College of Art visitors studios, which have taken the form of facilitated embodied forums that provide a platform for archaeologists, artists, dancers, elders, ecologists and shamans to share local knowledge and contribute to a collective understanding of body-land relationships through a post site-specific appraoch. (Jan, Feb, March 2020)

Our collaboration has developed under the Swedish Irish expanded research framework of Karum-Creevagh experimental heritage explorations and is part supported by Creative Ireland.

Citational Kinship

Hydrocorporeality

Neimanis, A. (2016) Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology. Bloomsbury Academic, London

Perera, S. 2013. Oceanic Corpo-geographies, Refugee Bodies and the Making and Unmaking of Waters. Feminist Review. 103, pp 58-79

Runcie, C. 2019. Salt on Your Tongue: Women and the Sea. Canongate Books Ltd

Werry, M. (2016) Sea-change: Performing a fluid continent, Performance Research, 21:2, 90-95,DOI: 10.1080/13528165.2016.1173926

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Eco Somatics

Alexander, K. and Kampe, T. (2017) 'Bodily undoing: somatics as practices of critique’, Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, 9 (1), pp. 3-12.

Paula Kramer (2012) Bodies, Rivers, Rocks and Trees: Meeting agentic materiality in contemporary outdoor dance practices, Performance Research, 17:4, 83-91, DOI: 10.1080/13528165.2012.712316

Malone et al (2020), Shimmering with Deborah Rose: Posthuman theory- making with feminist ecophilosophers and social ecologists. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 36, 129–145

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Deep Mapping

Biggs, I. (2010) Deep mapping as an ‘essaying’ of place,
https://www.iainbiggs.co.uk/text-deep-mapping-as-an-essaying-of-place/

Kavanagh, E. Layers in the Landscape deep mapping project,
https://www.geomythkavanagh.com/layers-in-the-landscape

Springett, S. (2015) Going Deeper or Flatter: Connecting Deep Mapping, Flat Ontologies and the Democratizing of Knowledge Humanities, 4, 623–636; doi:10.3390/h4040623

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