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Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Funded by the Editorial Board

The Embodied Knowledge Bureau is a space for investigating, reclaiming, and engaging the body within artistic education. Participants will dwell within an interdisciplinary community of practitioners and scholars, both in Amsterdam and internationally, who work through embodied approaches to knowledge and learning. The course will integrate movement and somatic workshops, open discussions, lectures, and film screenings that seek to mend current disciplinary blindspots and language barriers that often exist between academics and experiential experts.

Our program emerges out of a longing to mesh fields typically deemed separate — to grant access to knowledge which is too often confined to specific institutional frameworks. We believe that the body’s flesh, bone, and cellular structures archive crucial knowledge and embed both personal and collective histories which can absolutely be drawn on within artistic practice and research.

When dominant educational theories, pedagogical practices, and institutional structures omit the body, can somatic literacy serve as a tipping point for transformation? In a cultural, economic, and technological climate that increasingly addresses subjects as disembodied brains, what unique forms of expression, sense-making, and knowledge-sharing can embodied awareness uncover?

The Embodied Knowledge Bureau targets visual and spatial makers interested in exploring the impact of embodied experience on our ways of thinking, creating, and understanding our surroundings. We welcome participants at different stages of practice, movement experience, physical abilities, and a wide variety of interests. We are excited about weaving an inter-departmental community around topics which may often seem intimidating, inaccessible, or simply unaffordable.

The Embodied Knowledge Bureau firmly encourages participants to experiment with their own embodied expressions, languages, and styles. The program is designed to balance theory and experience, in order to allow participants ample space for reflection on the impact of their experiences on individual practices and interests. Throughout the year we will introduce an array of practices and techniques, as well as visual and written tools for describing and reflecting on these experiences. Together we will “read through the body,” using a sketchbook or body journal to document our insights and personal research. Selections of these materials will be published in the Embodied Learning Lexicon, an A-Z lexicon that will embody the terminologies and experiences that arise during the program.

Past
Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Sat
28 Oct
2023
Digestive Writing Lab - fall 2023

We are excited to return after summer break with a 2-part Digestive Writing Workshop, hosted by Micaela at AnaMorphic Studio.
Meeting over two weeks will open possibilities to deepen and practice the scores within your own flow: especially for those who are currently developing a piece of text or working to frame an area of research. This will be a space for individual inquiry within a larger group process.

Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Fri
23 Jun
2023
EKB Field School

We will be hosting a temporary field school for adults and children, filled with guided sensory field trips in and around Hasselt. Together, we will explore our surroundings from multiple viewpoints.

Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Sun
2 Apr
2023
Movement Workshop: digestive writing scores

Digestive Writing Scores is wandering out of university walls and into the studio. From April, Micaela Terk will be offering two sessions each month at AnaMorphic Studio in OT301.

Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Tue
29 Nov
2022
Digestive Writing Scores @ Columbia University

In this somatic writing workshop, we will experiment with relationships between words and knowledge. Writing through different movement scores, we will form a collective research lexicon that looks to disrupt common pathways and form new gestures. Movement will be the modus operandi in our choreographic exploration of learning environments.

Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Fri
6 May
2022
Maaike Bleeker: Corporeal Literacy

This session will focus on corporeal literacy: what it might be, how to theorize it, and what it may help to understand.

Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Fri
29 Apr
2022
Mylan Hoezen: Sink Slow

Have you ever noticed your own pace while moving? In this workshop we will be focusing on slow body movement, as guided by voice-over instruction and video. The session is divided in a variety of sections, in which I will encourage executing different actions involving balance, focus and collaboration. The workshop is constructed as an open playground/game and is a part of a bigger project I am currently developing.

Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Fri
22 Apr
2022
Lina Bravo Mora: Clay Body Lab

14:30 – 17:30 @ FL101

Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Fri
8 Apr
2022
Hanna Zorándy & Barbara Tabaksblat: Pantarei Workshop

14:30-17:30 @ FL101 The Pantarei method is shaped around the innate human qualities of empathy, touch, and communication — grounded in a need for connection and a powerful capacity for self-healing. In this one hour skillshare workshop, we’ll explore some fun and effective ways to get (re)connected to individual strengths and abilities through bodily awareness. We will work through a combination of touch and verbal communication, as powerful tools for tuning into desires, knowledge, and creativity, exploring how these tools can help towards personal expression and interpersonal communication.

Please wear something comfortable that you can easily move in, ideally clothing which are not too tight or thick-layered so that others can touch you and you can touch others.

Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Fri
25 Mar
2022
Yotam Shibolet: Embodying Seeing

A lecture/workshop on seeing and the body as a cognitive tool.

Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Thu
24 Mar
2022
EKB Night Sessions: Film Screening at W139

As part of W139 hosts… the Embodied Knowledge Bureau invites you to a night session at W139, around Jack Walsh’s documentary film, Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer.

Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Fri
11 Mar
2022
Isis Germano: Put your Ass on the Line

14:30 – 17:30
Theory Room 1

Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Fri
11 Feb
2022
Ria Higler: The Alchemist Body

10:00-17:30 in FedLev 101

Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Fri
14 Jan
2022
Aitana Cordero: Aequilibria

Movement workshop with Aitana Cordero: Aequilibria
Friday, January 14 / 14:00-19:00*
Where: Zoom (link will be provided closer to date)

Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Fri
17 Dec
2021
The Neurocognition of Liveness

This will be a hybrid event, limited to up to 30 physical participants.

Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Fri
10 Dec
2021
Digestive Writing by Micaela Terk

14:30 location TBA

Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Fri
3 Dec
2021
Workshop: The Energetic Body

In this class we explore the different flavours of our energetic body. Exploring how it is connected to our physical, emotional, mental and subtle body. Tapping into a deeper understanding of who and what we are. Gaining the tools to flow, contain and activate more easily

Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Fri
19 Nov
2021
Workshop: Tom Goldhand

Embodying personal space, interpersonal space, social space & shifting in between

Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Fri
5 Nov
2021
Yotam Shibolet: The Thinking Body

Time: 14:30–17:30
Location: BC 416

Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Fri
15 Oct
2021
Welcome Session

Join us on Friday, October 15 from 14:30-17:30 in FL101 (above the theory stairs) for a welcome session, where we will introduce the program and answer any questions about expectations, applications, attendance, etc. If time allows, we will experiment with some of the basic terms and concepts that will accompany the course.

Embodied Knowledge Bureau
Sat
18 Sep
2021
Open Call

The Embodied Knowledge Bureau is a space for investigating, reclaiming, and engaging the body within artistic education. Participants will dwell within an interdisciplinary community of practitioners and scholars, both in Amsterdam and internationally, who work through embodied approaches to knowledge and learning. The extraintra platform will integrate movement and somatic workshops, open discussions, lectures, and film screenings that seek to mend current disciplinary blindspots and language barriers that often exist between academics and experiential experts.

Coordinators/Organizers/Curators

Micaela Terk (Sandberg Instituut, Design Department)
Sheona Turnbull (Sandberg Instituut, Design Department)
Yotam Shibolet (PhD Researcher & Lecturer at Utrecht University, Department of Media and Culture)

Founding year

2021

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Yotam Shibolet: Embodying Seeing
Fri
25 Mar
2022

A lecture/workshop on seeing and the body as a cognitive tool.

14:30-17:30 @ Theory Room 1, Sandberg Instituut

About the Session

The session will be divided into two parts: a talk, in which we discuss how seeing can be effectively reinterpreted when considered through the prism of embodied cognition, as well as the potential impact of this shift, and a movement workshop in which we will actively explore these ideas.
How to reflect on the human capacity to meaningfully see surroundings, and forms of knowledge, framings, perspectives, interpretations, sensitivities and power dynamics that go into visual experiences? How and why are bodies important in these dynamics? What role does the body play? The crucial interconnections between movement and seeing, discussed within the first part, will be playfully experimented with in the workshop through moving ourselves.
To prepare for this session, you are invited to freely reflect on your own ways of (literally) seeing the world - what is unique about the ways you look around and the things or details you tend to notice? How does your experience of seeing relate to your tendencies of dedicating attention to your surroundings?
The workshop part will focus on attentional practice and simple movement exercise and will not at all be physically demanding. You may bring comfortable clothes for movement.


About Yotam

Yotam Shibolet is a teacher and PhD researcher at Utrecht University, and a cum laude graduate of its Media, Art and Performance research master program. His interdisciplinary research on ‘embodied narrativity’ combines insights from philosophy, embodied cognition, critical theory, and new media studies to explore the central role of movement and interaction in our capacity to make sense of art and grasp meaning at large. Yotam is a long-time practitioner and facilitator of Contact Improvisation and other somatic methods.


Limited spots are available, please RSVP by email to: embodiedknowledgebureau@sandberg.nl

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