withing Delphine Chapuis Schmitz --- Emma Cocker --- Laressa Dickey --- Sabina Holzer --- Ines Marita Schärer --- Litó Walkey This is an emergent ‘thematic node’ for exploring the relation of languaging and bodying: How does languaging affect bodying? How does bodying affect languaging? How does movement inform wording? How does wording inform moving? How can we explore ways for languaging/bodying with, through and from sensing and somatic practices? How to find wording and worlding for the polyphonies of somatic experiences? scores - notations - situations – conditions Initiated through the mutual witnessing of shared resonances and affinities during Convocation II, we conceived this ‘node’ as an emergent framework for experimenting together, for sharing embodied practising, for testing possibilities for a bodily becoming of language/words. Since November 2023, we have been meeting online to explore how we might create shared conditions and situations for practising body/languaging, both through being-with (online) and being-apart (offline). Currently, our shared exploration unfolds through the rhythm of rotation, an evolving constellation of ‘pairings’ and ‘proposals’ based on a bi-monthly cycle. For each bi-monthly iteration, a pairing (two of us working together) devises a score/proposal/invitation/focus which we then all collectively test, enact, activate, reconnecting together after a period of practice (1 month) for sharing materials / findings / discoveries / reflections from the shared research process. Being in doing. Being in practice together. Body/Language. Between the two, activating the between. Moving between different modalities, shifting from one to the other. Tilting towards. Along-siding.

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2.
Breathe diagonally across the two-page spread. Inhale, exhale.

Notate a sprawling sentence that emerges from this breathing.

Explore the exhale of the sentence until it materializes in the time and/or space around you.

Let a moment float by.

Notate on one A4 page:
– the breathing process from which the sentence has emerged,
– the sentence,
– the breathing process of materializing the sentence,
– (one trace of) the materialization.

With the same notebook, repeat the whole sequence (1.-5.) on three different occasions (four iterations in total).

1.
On a bright morning, hold a cup of tea between your hands, inhale, take a sip from the hot beverage, exhale, place the cup back on your desk, inhale –

or
After a time of being out of breath –

float your gaze as you flip through the pages of the selected notebook.

Close the notebook and open it once again to one two-page spread.

Score – proposal

0.
Select a notebook from a time ago, that holds notes you would like to come back to.

Condensate your four A4 pages into one breath poem.