Full text loading...
-
The queer habitat of fascia
- Source: Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, Volume 13, Issue Embodying Eco-Consciousness: Somatics, Aesthetic Practices & Social Action, Dec 2021, p. 145 - 152
-
- 27 Jan 2021
- 17 Sep 2021
- 01 Dec 2021
Abstract
Practice-led, somatic research comes to understand fascia not only as structure, but also as a relational mediator ranging from the interior to the exterior. Reflections from this research also reveal fascia as an experienced otherness within us, a matrix modulating inside/outside perception through varying fascial tone. Embedded in the philosophies of feminist scholar Karen Barad and ecologist Timothy Morton, experiential movement of fascia discerns ‘nature’, and thus the body itself, as queer. Fascia connects with-in and with-outer and acknowledges strange strangers living within us. Dissolving the binary of the inside/outside leads to an understanding of the body in its surrounding as ecological, interdependent part of its habitat.