On body knowing (body memory)

The body knowing (body memory) idea has never really be payed attention too. It is like going in the bookstore and see shelves of references on the brain...Smiling I am thinking; What about the heart? Does that symbolically expresses where are we? Most of the humankind experiencing Life on intellectual (which I think is something to analyze and think further in relation to technology) level. Technology most involves mobilization of mental energy with little involvement of feelings. Emotions and feelings are the ones that stimulate new thought and create new memory. Interesting enough is that all experiences there are emotionally strong (positive or negative) create a memory that stays even brain deterioration is present. When I work with lost of memory I design my multi modal sessions with the following characteristics: creating strong emotional (positive) experience as well as newness. Here are some lines on my experience performing at Lesley University this summer, in-boding a painting I created. This experience was the one that created inspired the development of my art based research project:

“During performing what really fascinated me was witnessing the knowing of

my body. It felt that there was already decision made without the mind being part

of it. The mind did not really initiate what was going to be performed but it was

witnessing it from the inside out. There was this space where the creative force was

unfolding itself, but the experienced sense of inner unity was fascinating. There was no

contradiction. There was wholeness of happening.”

“The process of continuum re-discovery: Every time I go back I will be discovering

something more or completely new about the image, but this seems to be more

mental discovery…, and it always seems that something there is meant to stay and

re-invite me back. I am fascinated by the art coming out of us and returning back in

the body. What does it happen there? Does it hold any meaning? Who I become in

different parts of the world? How is this projected in my artistic expression? ...

This is what I explored for my performance in class. It was not just a response but

allowing “becoming the art”: feel it, sense it, and think it and re-experiencing it.”