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Submission Number: 337
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| Given name | Renata |
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| Surname | Pekowska |
| renata.pekowska@gmail.com | |
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| Title | Have you tried prompting your body? Attentive body as a site of intermodal interpretation and subjective response |
| Format | Experimental format |
| Main language | English |
| Abstract | I aim to present and discuss emergent understandings of my PhD research project which uses shared situations of responsive drawing as epistemic spaces of emergent knowledges and sites and acts of primary, creative, joint attention. By inviting participants to join a workshop session, I would like to initiate a discussion on the possible limits of creative possibilities of AI, using embodiment as the lacking element identified both by N. Katherine Hayles and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. During the session we will use mark making and its responsive crossmodal potential as a process within a lived, situated, spatial, bodily experience. I will present my processes of ‘prompting’ the body with verbal scripts, sensory presences, and space-or time-experience-related descriptions, revealing the body as a medium of transmission, activated as an imperfect conductor and a site of crossmodal interface. The workshop will use the marked space and surfaces as scripts for a performative interpretation. The performative workshop will interrogate a shared group situation of co-envolvement and togetherness, as enabling the processes of discovery and crossmodal bodily interpretations where subjective responses and perspectives are possible outside of the scale of attention economy models and algorithmically generated ‘discorrelated’ illustrations of a ‘gaze from nowhere’. The session will aim to show that the in-between spheres of intermodal description and response can generate critical reflection, lived discoveries, through being acts of ‘setting of the scene’ and ‘getting into it’ of primary embodied attention and rearranging of perceptual attentional habits. It will also aim to reiterate the proposed possibility of practicing and learning perceptual attention through shared acts of attention, and further explore attention as a non-binary concept which points to interconnected realities of experience and its representation. |
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| Previous presentations or iterations of the research | My current practice involves constructing and conducting expanded drawing sessions. My sessions have been hosted by IMMA, temple Bar Gallery & Studios, the Hugh Lane Gallery, Kirkos, Poetry Ireland, International Literature Festival Dublin, Architectural Association of Ireland, among others. |
| Additional information | This session is suitable for 15-20 participants. Duration: one hour. |
| Spatial and technical requirements | Technical & Spatial Requirements: The workshop session can adapt to different spaces, inside and outside. Tables and chairs if possible, paper and pencils, white chalk if any space surfaces available to mark. |
| Potential risks or ethical concerns | At this stage there are no foreseeable ethical risks or concerns related to this proposed activity. |
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