documentation of one of the environment embodiment workshops led by Fernanda Branco, practicing relations between body-voice-environment
throughout the research
environment embodiment – towards poetic narratives
I have been giving workshops
of embodied practices that
I have developed
the questions around
how to disseminate knowledge
in artistic research
is already challenging
especially when
dealing with embodied practices
as the practice I offer is very
intimate
and
personal
it never felt fitting
to take photographs
as a way of documenting it
the documentation
of those workshops
derives from
a ritual practice
I have developed
an ending ritual
of collectively remembering
I remember has been created
from the necessity
of ritualising endings
from being
interested in
evoking memories together
and from the desire
to explore
alternative forms of documentation
I remember is
a practice
a collective action
and
a documentation
at the same time
the focus of this practice
is not to develop
or give techniques
but rather
be a grounded platform
for experiencing
body and voice practices
through a personal journey
because of its experiential
and personal modes
it seems appropriate
to share this practice
through the
personal testimonies
of the participants' experiences
at the end of each day
of the workshop
as an ending ritual
the participants are invited to
remember together
what they experienced
during the session
the documentation
also called
I remember
is a testimony collection
of
these individual sentences
I remember - ways of remembering collectively
is
at the same time
an ephemeral collective soundscape narrative
made of memories
that arise
in the moment of
remembering together
and it is
an archive of memories
what is evoked by you
what is evoked by you through others
I remember a warmth in my chest.
Continued Alice.
I remember hearing a sound that opened a totally new space in the room.
Continued the Snake.
the process of documentation
still under construction
as this is being written
things might take other
directions
yet
the intention
for all documentations
of this research
is base on
alternative ways to publish
such as post cards
wheat posting
zines
the idea for the
documentation
of the workshops is
to have a collection
of sentences of
I remember
in the format of cards
and in simple A4 prints
each testimony has a life in itself
in a sentence
in a card
yet
the A4
gives the possibility of having
many sentences put together
in a wall
for exemple
creating an open narrative
the order of the sentences
are random
giving the possibility of
creating different readings
the concising of
a sentence
and the possility
of creating
several narratives
by combining them
in different order
are related to the poetics
this research foster
I remember thinking: if this was like one communicated before having language.
Added Alice.
I remember thinking if I was a dog this would be easy for me.
Complemented the Snake.
