Sensorial Visualities: Embodying Together and Alone
2023
An ongoing project for embodied, ephemeral, and interdisciplinary approaches to research and ways of sharing knowledge. A space for creative expression with a focus on individuation and collective gathering.
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.
- Kimberly Phillips
Curated by Kimberly Phillips, with assistance from Teresa Donck-Matlock
Photos by Rachel Topham Photography
2023
An ongoing project for embodied, ephemeral, and interdisciplinary approaches to research and ways of sharing knowledge. A space for creative expression with a focus on individuation and collective gathering.
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.
- Kimberly Phillips
Curated by Kimberly Phillips, with assistance from Teresa Donck-Matlock
Photos by Rachel Topham Photography
I dream of creating spaces to foster and reinstate ways of knowing that privilege the body, the sensorial, human contact, intimacy, inter-generational learning, and land-nature connections that nurture our state of consciousness. I am finding these to be crucial and radical fields of study and practice to expand current modes of being and relating to the world, each other- and art making.
Through my projects of late I have come to conceive the notions of “sensorial visualities” and “expansive pedagogies”, two modalities that envision my performative practice in the arts and education with an intention to be in themselves a new way of world-making. A practice to co-create within and without a vision of the Self and the World that may thrive through attunement and a direct connection with lived experience.
Sensorial Visualities evolved as an exhibition and learning process wherein embodied and collaborative explorations with a group of SFU students were held. These sessions included movement, readings, films, guided exercises, guest artists, field trips, and experimental writing that draw from interdisciplinary practices such as somatics, esoterica, dance, indigenous knowledge, science, and philosophy.
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.
Videography assistance and collaboration: Luciana Freire D'Anunciaçao
Live Performance Documentation below:
Through my projects of late I have come to conceive the notions of “sensorial visualities” and “expansive pedagogies”, two modalities that envision my performative practice in the arts and education with an intention to be in themselves a new way of world-making. A practice to co-create within and without a vision of the Self and the World that may thrive through attunement and a direct connection with lived experience.
Sensorial Visualities evolved as an exhibition and learning process wherein embodied and collaborative explorations with a group of SFU students were held. These sessions included movement, readings, films, guided exercises, guest artists, field trips, and experimental writing that draw from interdisciplinary practices such as somatics, esoterica, dance, indigenous knowledge, science, and philosophy.
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.
Videography assistance and collaboration: Luciana Freire D'Anunciaçao
Live Performance Documentation below:
