Ecologies of Embodiment: Video Essays III

Hudson, Polly and Dupas, Ana Luiza Azevedo and Spahn, Lea Maria Elisabeth and Magdonova, Hana (2024) Ecologies of Embodiment: Video Essays III. Journal of Embodied Research, 7 (2). ISSN 2513-8421

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Abstract

Polly Hudson, “These Hands: an EcoSomatic approach to a woman’s labour - of the body, and on the land” (6:31). This video essay is part of an ongoing practice as a gardener and dancer, a long-term project at an inner city urban allotment, entitled And So we Sow. The work responds to notions of women's labour from an EcoSomatic and eco-feminist perspective, drawing on principles from releasing dance practices particularly Skinner Releasing Technique, from permaculture, and from wider embodied engagement. // Ana Luiza Azevedo Dupas, “Practice of Resting, Reading and Translating the Text: ‘Hapticality, or Love’” (9:52). This video shows fragments of the workshop: “Practice of resting, reading and translating the text: ‘Hapticality or love’,” held online in the context of IV EIRPAC event in September 2021. From the practice of Eutony, participants of the workshop are invited to a somatic reading, and “transcreation” of the text, which is an excerpt from Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study. // Lea Spahn and Hana Magdonova, “‘Within the Memories of a Mountain’: Posthuman Embodying as Techno-material Becoming” (11:00). This video essay is based on footage from performance artist Hana Magdoňová during her 39-day stay in Hády – a renaturating quarry in the post-socialist Czech Republic. Through an immersive layering of (video)images, sounds, and spoken words, the essay depics embodied encounters with this space and reads them through feminist materialist and posthumanist thinkers highlighting the entanglement of bodies, technologies, things, and other beings on a planetary scale.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number:	10.16995/jer.9222
Dates:	Date Event 1 November 2024 Accepted 18 November 2024 Published Online
Uncontrolled Keywords:	environmental humanities, videography, memoryscapes, feminist posthumanism, multi-species ethnography, dispersed embodiment, performative research, phenomenology
Subjects:	CAH25 - design, and creative and performing arts > CAH25-02 - performing arts > CAH25-02-02 - music
Divisions:	Royal Birmingham Conservatoire > Royal Birmingham Conservatoire - Music
Depositing User:	Gemma Tonks
Date Deposited:	28 Apr 2026 12:44
Last Modified:	28 Apr 2026 12:44
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/16996

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