An invitation ~to breathe, touch, feel, move together, 2023
An invitation ~to breathe, touch, feel, move together, is a lyrical documentation of Martinez’ process of Sensorial Visualities and Expansive Pedagogies with students and invited members of the artist collective CUERPO, during the research-creation exhibition. Its extended version was presented as part of a 3-channel video installation together with the two videos from Tracing Bones, Moving Skin.
"Sensorial Visualities is less a formal exhibition than a proposition to learn together, differently. Drawing on her expansive multi-disciplinary, empathy-led, and haptics-focused artistic practice, Guadalupe Martinez creates an intervention on SFU’s Burnaby Mountain campus that challenges inherited models of Western academia to explore ways of learning that encourage vulnerability over mastery, community over competition, and embodied presence over detached consumption. Her affective process, which includes movement workshops, listening experiments, shared readings, experimental writing, and collaborative performance—all informed by invited guests’ knowledge of somatics, esoterica, dance, sound, philosophy, and Indigeneity—opens to the public as a site for sustained dialogue and the material record of a collaborative research effort. Sensorial Visualities is the first in a series of projects that challenge presumed pedagogical frameworks and open the edges of the university classroom.
The performance An invitation ~to breathe, touch, feel, move together, involving Martinez’ students and invited members of the artist collective CUERPO, culminates weeks of focused co-learning in the gallery and at various sites on Burnaby Mountain." - KP
Videography assistance and collaboration: Luciana Freire D'Anunciaçao
"Sensorial Visualities is less a formal exhibition than a proposition to learn together, differently. Drawing on her expansive multi-disciplinary, empathy-led, and haptics-focused artistic practice, Guadalupe Martinez creates an intervention on SFU’s Burnaby Mountain campus that challenges inherited models of Western academia to explore ways of learning that encourage vulnerability over mastery, community over competition, and embodied presence over detached consumption. Her affective process, which includes movement workshops, listening experiments, shared readings, experimental writing, and collaborative performance—all informed by invited guests’ knowledge of somatics, esoterica, dance, sound, philosophy, and Indigeneity—opens to the public as a site for sustained dialogue and the material record of a collaborative research effort. Sensorial Visualities is the first in a series of projects that challenge presumed pedagogical frameworks and open the edges of the university classroom.
The performance An invitation ~to breathe, touch, feel, move together, involving Martinez’ students and invited members of the artist collective CUERPO, culminates weeks of focused co-learning in the gallery and at various sites on Burnaby Mountain." - KP
Videography assistance and collaboration: Luciana Freire D'Anunciaçao