Embodied Practices — Talk about body knowledge

Body knowledge is a situated, living practice. It is created in movements, rituals and sensory experiences and shapes how people remember, create relationships and locate themselves in the world. By working together, it is passed on, preserved and at the same time changed, with the bodies, places and encounters that support it.

On October 31, the artistic and curatorial practices of Laura Campaz, Jenny M. Díaz Muñoz, Julieth Morales and Maque Pereyra will meet as part of “Embodied Practices.”

From an Afro-Columbian perspective, Laura Campaz combines work with image archives, digital technologies and speculative imagination. As a Misak artist, Julieth Morales reinterprets physical and ritual practices, questioning colonial influences and traditional gender roles. Based on rituals and affects, Jenny M. Díaz Muñoz combines art and politics with memory work in collaborative research and design processes. With the practice Yoggaton developed by her, Maque Pereyra provides access to embodied knowledge through pleasure, sensuality and spirituality.

In dialogue, they ask how artistic and curatorial practice changes traditional forms of knowledge and opens up spaces for other experiences and relationships. Works by the artists can be seen in the room and form further starting points for the discussion.

Before the talk, the embodied practice “Yoggaton: Transformative Pleasure” by Maque Pereyra takes place.