Overview

What can a fold be? Virtually anything and everything. For centuries, folds and folding have captured the world’s imagination. Folds readily appear in revivals of the ancient craft of origami, amid the simplest acts of pedestrian life, within the philosophical turnings of the mind, and in art, design, architecture, performing arts, and linguistics around the world. What awaits our understanding is how deeply the fold figures into embodiment, into our very impulse to create. This book is about folding as a vibrant stimulus for inter/trans/postdisciplinary artistic research, whether for the performative, for product realization, or simply to enliven body, mind, and spirit. Destined for artmaking—for making any art—the f/old practice etches into the very fabric of embodiment. As such, the f/old reaches outside the constraints of disciplinary silos into nice areas that embrace the unknown, with all its underlying tensions and ambiguities. In conceiving of art made differently, two seasoned facilitators Susan Sentler and Glenna Batson share the abundance of their decade-long collaboration in developing their approach to practice research in the fold. In addition to their insights, they invite eight of their collaborators to contribute, each a veteran artist of a diverse genre. Featuring a wide variety of practice samples and images, this book reflects on a current and unique somatic-oriented arts research practice and pedagogy with an intriguing blend of interdisciplinary concern and practice.  

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Author:   Susan Sentler (LASALLE College of the Arts) ,  Glenna Batson (Winston-Salem State University, USA)
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781835952726

ISBN 10:   1835952720
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   08 June 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures  Preface Acknowledgements   Part I - enter chapter 1. Welcome chapter 2. Bio-origami: history, herstory, our story chapter 3. Scaf/fold chapter 4. Wayfolding/wayfinding\processes chapter 5. Languaging chapter 6. Anarchiving on both sides of the lens of the digital f/old   Part II - re-enter  chapter 7. 'bearing witness to the knotting skies': some reflections from the f/old – Meghna Bhardwaj chapter 8. audiorigami: folding sound and sounding the fold – Jude Casseday chapter 9. the f/old in fashion practice – Daniela Monasterios-Tan chapter 10. fold.fall.nest. – Susan Sentler chapter 11. notes on architecture and collaboration: unfolding the f/old - Sony Devabhaktuni chapter 12. algorithmic folding - Jamie Forth chapter 13. 5 notes from Tenjinyama – Mattie Wang and Sophie de Serière chapter 14. the compulsion of presence – NiFe: Jennifer Lucey-Brzoza   addenda  addendum 1. Workshop description examples addendum 2. Script examples addendum 3. 5 experiential folding activities addendum 4. Hybridity addendum 5. Podcast   Notes on Contributors  

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Glenna Batson, ScD, PT, MA, has worked at the intersection of dance, movement science and somatic education for more than five decades as a movement muse, scout, guide,mentor, advocate, artist and friend, teaching embodied practices to anyone eager to engage and co-create. Susan Sentler BA, MACP is an artist rooted in the fields of Dance, Performance, Visual Arts working as educator/lecturer, maker/choreographer, researcher, director, curator, dramaturg and performer. She has practiced globally for over 30 years and began teaching in Higher Education in 1992

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