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An autoethnographic approach to understanding the neurological process of embodied experiences. This book is a transdisciplinary approach to practice-as-research, complete with an elaborate theory of practice and a set of four multi-year performance research projects through which the theory plays out. Its methodology is at times ethnographic, as the author deftly inserts himself and his Caribbean West African ancestry into a series of complex cortical and geographic maps, which become choreographic in every sense of the term. The central argument in the book is based on a claim that human beings are cognitively embodied through their own lived experiences of movement through space and time; the spaces we inhabit and the practices we engage in are documented through cortical and cartographic maps. In short, as we inhabit and move through spaces our brains organize our experiences into unique cortical and spatial maps, which eventually determine how we see and deal with, or “become,” subjects in a world that we also help create. The argument is that through performance, we can claim the knowledge that is in the body as well as in the spaces through which it travels.

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Author:   Henry Daniel
Publisher:   Intellect Books
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781789387698

ISBN 10:   1789387698
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   17 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements  Prologue ACT 1 1. Autoethnography as a Methodological and Ideological Starting Point - A beginning of sorts - Will the artist please stand up? - Introducing the map - Microcosm vs. macrocosm - Mediating difference - Choreographic organization 2. The Hypothesis Explained - Theory, perception, process and practice - Implications - Embodiment and disembodiment - Science, art, culture and the transdisciplinary mandate - Self-knowing - Movement, language and non-discursive thinking - Mirroring - Preliminary conclusions 3. Further Presuppositions and Explorations in Search of a Theory of Practice - Revisiting the hypothesis - Shango Meets Ogun - Performing disembodiment - Futurist Equation - The futurist/humanist condition - Re-cognizing/re-membering - The lived machine - Performing consciousness - Scales and dimensions, movement and sound - Further conclusions ACT 2 4. Transnet - Performing art, performing science, transdisciplinary approaches to performance - Significant contributions - Choreography as transdisciplinary Practice-as-Research 5. New Performance Maps - The Touched Project: Organization, control and emergence in choreographed performance systems - Touched - t2 - t2_echo - Imprint - Imprint II - Embodied choreographic knowing 6. Going West to Find East - Choreographing from the underside - Haikai, Encounters and Here Be Dragons (Stage I Creative Preview) - Barca: el otro lado - A barca: Reaching back to go forward - ambos lados - Isabella’s Dream ACT 3 7. Contemporary Nomads - Nomadism - nómadas - nómadas 2018_excerpts - On Home - Multiple presences: Movement through space/time holes - The real and the virtual, reality and the dream - Performing the self: Movement as an unfolding and initiating of thought An Epilogue: Fitting [Out-fitting] In  - Who is he fooling and what is he really doing there?  - Who am I and why am I here?  - Fitting [Out-fitting] In - So, what’s your background? - Where are you from? I mean, where are you really from? - Oh! You’re a Professor? What do you teach? - What’s ahead?  - Finale Appendix A: Artisitic Works by the Author - Multi-year research projects referenced - Short-term stand-alone works mentioned  Appendix B - Map A  - Map B  - Map C  Bibliography Index

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Henry Daniel is a distinguished SFU professor, professor of dance, performance studies and new technology, scholar, performer, choreographer, and Artistic Director of Full Performing Bodies. Daniel’s research concentrates on strengthening notions of Practice-as-Research (PaR), Arts-based- Research, and Research/Creation in Canada. He leads a group of artists and scholars who help define new parameters for excellence in these areas. He has a professional background in dance, theatre, and new media with a career that started in his native Trinidad & Tobago and continued in the USA, Germany, the UK, and Canada. Full biography at www.henrydaniel.ca/about

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