This session features live contributions by Murat Adash, Nissa Nishikawa, and Bartosz Zurowski, each of whom engages with the shape-shifting elements of movement, language, sound, and storytelling as vehicles for traversing altered states of corpo-realities. Distinct acts of moving, speaking, singing, and narrating intertwine and juxtapose one another, collectively drawing on bodily and sonic practices to rehearse new ways of seeing and listening. These practices open pathways to a multiplicity of emergent and constructed relationalities, intimacies, futurities, and cosmologies.

Loosely framed by the concept of darkness, each contribution uniquely addresses a range of interconnected themes, including indigenous knowledge systems, ceremony, alterity, and permeability. Together, these elements weave a sensory-rich tapestry that navigates the provisional nature of identities, realities, and subjectivities. By embracing this fluidity, the session invites reflection on altered forms of knowing, sensing, feeling, and thinking, offering participants an embodied encounter with the possibilities of transformation and collective reimagining.

Documentation by David Kaplowitz, Joel Cottrell and Jon Kassell.
Editing by David Kaplowitz.

Choreographic Devices is supported by CHASE, Goldsmiths and Rose Choreographic School.