artmaking as embodied enquiry
artmaking as embodied enquiry (Book)
entering the fold
Designed as a sourcebook or generative platform for sourcing creativity, the book opens ways to transform playful exploration into deeper intimacy within artmaking through exploring folds/folding. Led by highly experienced and articulate practitioners, and includes a rich variety of practice samples and images. 170 b&w illus.
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What can a fold be? Virtually anything and everything.
For centuries, folds/folding has captured the world’s imagination. Folds readily appear in revivals of the ancient craft of origami,the simplest acts of pedestrian life, in art, design, architecture, performing arts, linguistics, the philosophical turnings of the mind, and last, but not the least, in the many ingenious computations of (bio)engineering and technology. What awaits our understanding is how deeply the fold roots into embodiment, into our very impulse to create.
This book is about folding as a vibrant stimulus for trans-disciplinary artistic research – whether for the performative, for product realization or simply to enliven body, mind and spirit. Conceived as art-made-differently, Susan and Glenna share the abundance of their decade-long collaboration in developing their approach to practice research in the fold. In addition to their own insights, they invite eight of their collaborators to contribute, each a veteran artist. The fold is destined for artmaking – for making any art. Etching into the very fabric of embodiment, the fold practice reaches outside the constraints of disciplinary silos into niche areas that embrace the unknown with all its underlying tensions and ambiguities.
Reflecting on a current and unique somatic oriented arts research practice and pedagogy, with an intriguing blend of interdisciplinary concern and theory practice and includes a wide variety of practice samples and images.
Glenna Batson, ScD, PT, MA, has worked at the intersection of dance, movement science and somatic education for more than five decades as a movement muse, scout, guide,mentor, advocate, artist and friend, teaching embodied practices to anyone eager to engage and co-create.
Susan Sentler BA, MACP is an artist rooted in the fields of Dance, Performance, Visual Arts working as educator/lecturer, maker/choreographer, researcher, director, curator, dramaturg and performer. She has practiced globally for over 30 years and began teaching in Higher Education since 1992
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I - enter
chapter 1. Welcome
chapter 2. Bio-origami
chapter 3. Scaf/fold
chapter 4. Wayfolding/wayfinding\processes
chapter 5. Languaging
chapter 6. Anarchiving on both sides of the lens of the digital f/old
Part II - ways in
chapter 7. folding the weave – Meghna Bhardwaj
chapter 8. audiorigami: folding sound and sounding the fold – Jude Casseday
chapter 9. the f/old in fashion practice – Daniela Monasterios-Tan
chapter 10. fold.fall.nest. – Susan Sentler
chapter 11. notes on architecture and collaboration: unfolding the f/old - Sony Devabhaktuni
chapter 12. algorithmic folding - Jamie Forth
chapter 13. 5 notes from Tenjinyama – Mattie Wang and Sophie de Serière
chapter 14. the compulsion of presence – NiFe: Jennifer Lucey-Brzoza
addenda
addendum 1. Workshop description examples
addendum 2. Script examples
addendum 3. 5 experiential folding activities
addendum 4. Hybridity
addendum 5. Podcast
Notes on Contributors
