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Cocker, E 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2985-7839,
2024.
Dorsal practices – voicing from/with the back.
In: Creatical Idiolects: Exploring Creative-Critical Synergies, Lancaster University (Online), 6 December 2024.
Abstract
Dorsal Practices is collaboration between choreographer Katrina Brown and writer-artist Emma Cocker for exploring how a back-oriented awareness and attitude might shape and inform our embodied, affective and relational experience of being-in-the-world. Combining a choreographic sensitivity with language-based artistic research, Dorsal Practices explores how experiences of listening, languaging, even thinking, might be shaped differently through this tilt of awareness and attention towards the back. Since 2021, Dorsal Practices has unfolded through: (1) Somatic movement practices exploring a dorsal orientation (through lying, rotating, transitioning, moving-shaping, walking, turning); (2) Conversation practices (online undertaken back-to-back) for sharing the live(d) experience of dorsal practising, allowing for deep listening and an emergent ‘dorsal voicing’; (3) Improvisatory reading practices for re-activating the conversation transcripts — reading as a poetic, experimental approach to textual genesis — where an intersubjective and reflexive (capable of bending, turning back) mode of linguistic sense-making emerges through the interplay of spoken word. Dorsal Practices proposes an oblique creatical position, acknowledging a wider critical milieu indirectly, to the sides (e.g. on dorsality [David Wills, 2008], on (dis)orientation [Sara Ahmed, 2006]; on listening [Lispeth Lipari, 2014], on inclination [Adriana Cavarero, 2016]). For the symposium, Brown and Cocker presented an improvisatory performative reading, intermingling the idiolect of their conversational transcript with fragments of critical discourse, alongside playful moments of ‘etymological dérive’ for diving into, dwelling with and turning over specific key words (e.g. incline, oblique, release, reverse). The reading activated a distinctive material-linguistic form emerging through unexpected conjunctions, (re)combinations, circling and looping of language, in the very moment of voicing creating a contingent unfolding of dorsal sense-making.
| Item Type: | Conference contribution |
|---|---|
| Creators: | Cocker, E. |
| Date: | 20 November 2024 |
| Identifiers: | Number Type 2326292 Other |
| Divisions: | Schools > Nottingham School of Art & Design |
| Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher |
| Date Added: | 18 Dec 2024 09:48 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Dec 2024 09:48 |
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52733 |
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