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Using the Smart phone as a digital device, the authors outline a process through which they instruct participants in capturing the shared sensibilities of of somatic/artistic archiving. With the f/old as muse, the authors draw from cultural theorist Erin Manning's concept (and coining) of the term ‘anarchiving’ a process-based methodology that calls for iterative cobbling of mixed media through artistic creation. With the authors' interest in visual capture, they detail two workshops taught at the first and second Modes of Capture Symposia, held at the University of Limerick (Ireland), 2019 (live) and 2020 (virtual). All roles are described with participants exchanging that of mover/captor and Batson as wordsmith, word prompt facilitator and Sentler laying out and scribing an improvisational process of documentation.

Keywords: agency ; anarchiving ; captor ; creativity ; digital device ; documentation ; ephemera ; ephemerality ; facilitation ; immateriality ; movement ; mover ; re-entry ; reciprocity ; scribing ; sensibility ; Smart phone ; somatic dive ; vantage point ; workshop(ping)

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anarchiving on both sides of the lens of the digital f/old
Intellect , 122 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789389685_7
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     [Google Scholar]
  2. Batson, Glenna. “Human Origami: The Embryo as a Folding Life Continuum.” International Journal of Prenatal and Life Sciences 1, no. 1 (2017): 1–20.
     [Google Scholar]
  3. Davida, Dena, Marc Pronovost, Hudon Veronique, and Jane Gabriela, eds. Curating Live Arts: Critical Perspectives, Essays and Conversations on Theory and Practice. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2019.
     [Google Scholar]
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     [Google Scholar]
  14. Sentler, Susan and Natasha Luschetich, eds. “The Liquid Architecture of Bodily Folding.” In Beyond Mind: Symbolism, an Interdisciplinary Journal of Critical Aesthetics, 137–48. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.

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