It took over a year!! and now the journal is out. My first exposition in a peer-reviewed journal. I am so excited to able to share work in the format of an exposition because it allows for the non-linear links between ideas that artistic intelligence offers. In the work, I suggest and explore three ideas
1) Skins of Concrete, Flesh, and Soil (city: relationships of connection)
2) Becoming into… Human, Mycelium, and Rubble (city: relationships of transformation
3) Presences: Liaisons, Missionaries, Regulations, Enterprises, Imaginings (city: relationships of learning).
In some ways, I made this to summarise where I was in my thinking and where I am now moving from next.
This exposition shares findings from my ongoing research that explores cities through the spatial and somatic practices of dance and urban studies. I am interested in how we enrich our concepts for understanding and developing cities to include their sensory textures as political realities. As a choreographer artist-scholar, I offer insights from an embodied approach, engaging cities as responsive collaborators when encountered through movement. Here, I share reflections and findings drawn from using dance-based knowledges to engage cities as living archives, which include an ever-changing record of how people move, imagine, and enact what it is to be human. I have found that dancing with cities reveals interwoven environments shaped by the ideologies that govern how mobilities are fostered, constrained, and enacted. In this exposition, I temporarily gather these dynamics into three categories (connection, transformation, and learning) as a framework for analysis and discussion.