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

Following a two week residency at the Burren College of Art, 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.

TRANSDISCIPLINARY METHODS

We follow a multitemporal approach that separates out layers of bodily consciousness /knowledge through a sensorial, somatic spatio-temporal practice (deep listening), aligned with the idea of body-mapping ie. reading the geological, topological and climatic conditions of a place. In recognising the importance of experiencing and exploring place through embodied knowledge, our work acknowledges phenomenological aspects of a cultural heritage agenda including time travel through body cells, body as archive, and repertoire holding cultural memory. Our multidisciplinary methods allow for information/body knowledge to be cross-referenced with archaeological and cultural heritage data including the social function, habitual uses and mythical and ritual characteristics of rituals as well other aspects such as geological and meteorological conditions.