Somatic Voices
in Performance Research and Beyond
The project
Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond brings together a community of international practitioner-researchers who explore voice through soma or soma through voice. Somatic methodologies offer research processes within a new area of vocal, somatic and performance praxis. The project received two research funds from CHASE/AHRC and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (PVC) Research impact support.
Research events at East 15 Acting School, London
A 5-hour workshop with Patricia Bardi (November 17, 2018)
A guest seminar by Dr Ben Macpherson on Sensing, singing, streaming (May 4, 2019)
A 2-day praxical symposium (July 19-20, 2019)
(Due to a mistake on the webpage, please note that:
Response #1 by Judah Attille is video no 5 and Response #2 by Fabiano Culora is video no 4)
The book
(October 22, 2020)
Audiovisual material for Chapters 4,5,8 and 17 can be accessed directly here:
Graphic design support for book figures,
photos and video documentation by Vivianna Chiotini
Some examples of public engagement with the project
Input in the end of the Somatic Voices Symposium
Written input after the completion of the symposium activities
… at the end of day one…I had come to a clearer perspective and understanding of some of the heuristic research processes that I've been doing […] So, the day I spent with you was hugely influential and the impact accumulated as the day went on and then beyond.
This has lead me to reflect on the potentiality of language to update in order to meet our needs of the evolving practices and also to speak closely to the experience, as well as, language as a mode of maintaining the affect of interest in research dynamics […] That this mind-body connection is a co-evolution.
The people who participated, the practices we experienced and the genuine sharing of knowledge was a different approach to academia […] It has changed me both as a researcher as well as a practitioner.
References beyond...
Among others, the project is cited in the leaflet that accompanies the display of Ima-Abasi Okon’s installation Infinite Slippage: nonRepugnant Insolvencies T!-a!-r!-r!-y!-i!-n!-g! as Hand Claps of M’s Hard’Loved’Flesh [I’M irreducibly-undone because] —Quantum Leanage-Complex-Dub at Tate Britain
The essay in the leaflet, commissioned by the artist, is written by Judah Attille (Filmmaker) and Yasmin Nicholas (Interdisciplinary Artist).
But through a considered performance of an ‘unconditional’ proposition, through the regular practice and testing of hospitality as notion and experience (Kapadocha, 2021, p.231), the host and guest can expand on the interdependence of their positions to arrive at a non-binary appreciation of sensations […] Are the risks of this ‘unconditional’ state of being mediated by the quality of invitation?
Attille and Nicholas, 2021