Sensorial Visualities: embodying together and alone is 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
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
