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 ______________.

SUPPORTING TEXTS

* SINGLE PRACTICES

[Activated within Ecologies in Action]

* ARTEFACTS

[Generated through Ecologies in Action]

SCORE FOR THE PRACTICE OF VOICING OBSERVATION

- Take time to become aware of your own body, remaining closely in touch with this experience throughout the practice.

- Center the focus of your attention on the other practices that are active now within the Ecology in Action.

- Become aware of the unfolding of these practices by observing them aesthetically: be sensibly and emotionally in touch with them; let them resonate in your body.

- Allow the experience of observation to find a linguistic (yet non-propositional) form, giving voice to by speaking out loud.

- Remain in touch with the object/focus or exploration, the direct experience of one’s own body and the experiential presence of others as a sensory-perceptual event. When this quality of attention fades, then pause or stop the process, or transition to a different practice (e.g. Practice of Reading).

- The Practice Voicing Observation might be activated from the position of the Practice of Stepping Back, that is, moving from just observing to an attempt to voice that experience in language.

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