'Fleshing it out': embodied practices and socio-political impact

How does practice-based research with a focus on body-based knowledges and insights help to concretise the felt experience of socio-political themes such as commoning, power, and relationality? How can we use embodied, experiential techniques to better articulate how we relate to ourselves, to each other and to systems of power? Can practice-based research help us to do differently, not just say differently? A one day symposium hosting practical labs on a variety of embodied practice-research approaches. With an interdisciplinary focus and an inclusive approach, we have invited practitioners working across dance and psychology, sound and computing, design, and theatre. We will aim to reflect our enquiry in the structure and holding of the day, as well as in the themes brought by invited artists and scholars. Please come prepared to experiment, participate, and co-create the day with us.

The title of the event is a play on the word 'in-carn-ate' - literally, to make flesh. We are, in a sense, engaged in the messy process of fleshing out the potential insights of embodied practice-research for socio-political issues.