SUPPORTING MATERIALS (thinking aesthetic thinking through aesthetic research practices) by Emma Cocker

thinking aesthetic thinking through aesthetic research practices is an artistic research project by Alex Arteaga, Emma Cocker, Nicole Wendel (with Sabine Zahn during the first phase), focused on the ways in which aesthetic research practices realise a specific form of thinking: aesthetic thinking. This exposition shares the research process of this collaborative project tracing its key phases between June 2020 - October 2022 and the gradual evolution of an original research dispositive or apparatus called Ecologies in Action. This exposition is conceived as Supporting Materials for a parallel article published in ______________.

SCORE FOR THE PRACTICE OF ATTUNEMENT

- Decide on a timeframe for practising the Practice of Attunement.

- Take time to become aware of your own body and your breath in relation to the space and site that you are in.

- Choose a practice for attunement – depending on the requirements of the situation and your bodily needs. This might involve selecting a somatic practice from your own repetoire of practices. If this is going to be a shared or guided practice, agree on the specific practice together. For example, it could involve activating and energising, slowing down and balancing, or centering and opening.

- If you are practising with others, then one person might invite the practice with a clear and calm voice.

- Relate the pace of guidance to the pace of the active body.

- Take a moment to observe of your body after the Practice of Attunement and before you start to practise an Ecology in Action.

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