artmaking as embodied enquiry
artmaking as embodied enquiry (Book)
entering the fold
Designed as a generative platform for sourcing creativity, this book is about folding as a vibrant stimulus for inter/trans/postdisciplinary artistic research, transforming playful exploration into deeper intimacy within art making with mixed media artist Susan Sentler and somatic educator Glenna Batson. Includes practice samples and images. 150 colour and b&w illus.
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What can a fold be? Virtually anything and everything.
For centuries, folds and folding have captured the world’s imagination. Folds readily appear in revivals of the ancient craft of origami, amid the simplest acts of pedestrian life, within the philosophical turnings of the mind, and in art, design, architecture, performing arts, and linguistics around the world. What awaits our understanding is how deeply the fold figures into embodiment, into our very impulse to create.
This book is about folding as a vibrant stimulus for inter/trans/postdisciplinary artistic research, whether for the performative, for product realization, or simply to enliven body, mind, and spirit. Destined for artmaking—for making any art—the f/old practice etches into the very fabric of embodiment. As such, the f/old reaches outside the constraints of disciplinary silos into nice areas that embrace the unknown, with all its underlying tensions and ambiguities. In conceiving of art made differently, two seasoned facilitators Susan Sentler and Glenna Batson share the abundance of their decade-long collaboration in developing their approach to practice research in the fold. In addition to their insights, they invite eight of their collaborators to contribute, each a veteran artist of a diverse genre.
Featuring a wide variety of practice samples and images, this book reflects on a current and unique somatic-oriented arts research practice and pedagogy with an intriguing blend of interdisciplinary concern and practice.
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 in 1992
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I - enter
chapter 1. Welcome
chapter 2. Bio-origami: history, herstory, our story
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 - re-enter
chapter 7. 'bearing witness to the knotting skies': some reflections from the f/old – 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
