Re-choreographing cortical & cartographic maps : going West to find East going East to find West /
This book is a transdisciplinary approach to practice-as-research, complete with its own elaborate theory of practice and a set of four multi-year-performance research projects through which the theory plays out. Its methodology is at times ethnographic as the author deftly inserts himself and his C...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol, UK :
Intellect Books,
[2022].
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| Summary: | This book is a transdisciplinary approach to practice-as-research, complete with its own elaborate theory of practice and a set of four multi-year-performance research projects through which the theory plays out. Its methodology is at times ethnographic as the author deftly inserts himself and his Caribbean west African ancestry into a series of complex cortical and geographic maps, which become choreographic in every sense of the term.The central argument in the book is based on a claim that human beings are cognitively embodied through their own lived experiences of movement through space and time; the spaces we inhabit and the practices we engage in are documented through cortical and cartographic maps. In short, as we inhabit and move through spaces our brains organize our experiences into unique cortical and spatial maps, which eventually determine how we see and deal with, i.e., 'become' subjects in a world that we also help create. The argument is that through performance, as a recognizing and remembering of these movements, we can claim the knowledge that is in the body as well as in the spaces through which it travels. To demonstrate how the brain organizes our experiences of the world according to cartographic (graphically mapping procedures) and cortical (motor, sensory and visual functions) mapping and exploring the impact of this mapping to choreographic practice, considering how maps might be disrupted or altered by change of circumstances. This is illustrated through scientific, creative and reflective approaches to exploring neurological process of embodied experiences, as well as the analysis of projects that have utilized this practice thus far. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 273 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Incudes bibliographical references (pages 249-270) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781789386714 1789386713 9781789387698 1789387698 |