Re-choreographing cortical & cartographic maps : going West to find East going East to find West / Henry Daniel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daniel, Henry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Choreography.

Cartography in art.

Physical Description:

xxi, 273 pages : illustrations, color map ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Intellect Ltd 2022.

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 organise 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 re-cognising and re-membering 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 organises 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.Audience will include Dance and Performance Studies Scholars; Dancers and Choreographers; Undergraduate and Advanced Students; Researchers.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ACT 1

1. Autoethnography as a Methodological and Ideological Starting Point

A beginning of sorts

Will the artist please stand up?

Introducing the map

Microcosm vs. macrocosm

Mediating difference

Choreographic organization

2. The Hypothesis Explained

Theory, perception, process and practice

Implications

Embodiment and disembodiment

Science, art, culture and the transdisciplinary mandate

Self-knowing

Movement, language and non-discursive thinking

Mirroring

Preliminary conclusions

3. Further Presuppositions and Explorations in Search of a Theory of Practice

Revisiting the hypothesis

Shango Meets Ogun

Performing disembodiment

Futurist Equation

The futurist/humanist condition

Re-cognizing/re-membering

The lived machine

Performing consciousness

Scales and dimensions, movement and sound

Further conclusions

ACT 2

4. Transnet

Performing art, performing science, transdisciplinary approaches to performance

Significant contributions

Choreography as transdisciplinary Practice-as-Research

5. New Performance Maps

The Touched Project: Organization, control and emergence in choreographed performance systems

Touched

T2

T2_Echo

Imprint

Imprint II

Embodied choreographic knowing

6. Going West to Find East

Choreographing from the underside

Haikai, Encounters and Here Be Dragons (Stage I Creative Preview)

Barca: el otro lado

A barca: Reaching back to go forward

Ambos lados

Isabella's Dream

ACT 3

7. Contemporary Nomads

Nomadism

Nomadas

Nomadas 2018_excerpts

On Home

Multiple presences: Movement through space/time holes

The real and the virtual, reality and the dream

Performing the self: Movement as an unfolding and initiating of thought

An Epilogue: Fitting [Out-fitting] In

Who is he fooling and what is he really doing there?

Who am I and why am I here?

Fitting [Out-fitting] In

So, what's your background?

Where are you from? I mean, where are you really from?

Oh! You're a Professor? What do you teach?

What's ahead?

Finale

Appendix A Artisitic Works by the Author

Multi-year research projects referenced

Short-term stand-alone works mentioned

Appendix B

Map A

Map B

Map C.

Notes:

Inlcudes bibliographical references (pages 249-270) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781789386714

1789386713

9781789387698

1789387698

OCLC:

1344292043