Trembling Bodies

This zone centers on bodies as both a sensor and a site of seismic awareness. Drawing on somatic practices, trauma-informed approaches and embodied research, it explores how disruptions are experienced and remembered through bodily perception. Practices such as trembling, sensory deprivation, breathwork, laughter-based and primal scream exercises are explored as methods for expanding perception, cultivating attentiveness and investigating how bodies register, negotiate and make sense of instability. Land and bodies are approached as interconnected, each carrying histories and traces of transformation.

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Selected references

Andrieu, Bernard, et al. (2020) “Emersive Microperformativity: On physiological mediation in Yann Marussich’s ‘immobile’ performances”, Hauser, Jens, Strecker, Lucie, issue eds, Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts, 25 (3)
Edelman, Gerald M., Joseph A. Gally, Bernard J. Baars,
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Greil, Mariella. Being in Contact: Encountering a Bare Body. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.
Greil, Mariella. Choreo-ethical Assemblages: Embodied Research as Cosmopoietic Œkology. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2026.
Imhof, Barbara, Daniela Mitterberger, and Tiziano Derme, Co-Corporeality of Humans, Machines, & Microbes, Birkhäuser.
Manning, Erin. Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009.
Manning, Erin. The Minor Gesture. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
Mosetter, Kurt Reiner Mosetter. Myoreflex Therapy – Experienced Biography. Konstanz: Vesalius, 2018.
Ruglass, Lesia and Kathleen Kendall-Tackett. Psychology of Trauma 101, New York: Springer Publishing Company, 2014.