A presentation as part of Subtle Intelligent Bodies, in the Poetics of Healing series, a project of curator Eleni Stecopoulos with the Poetry Center at SFSU. I danced and presented on the poetics and Kidney Meridian, as they relate to vital nourishment, performance, and the unknown, as it connects to mingmen and the gate of life, as a source for creation. The event took place at the Subterranean Arthouse in Berkeley. Three presentations included Bhanu Kapil, the late poet Beth Murray, and myself.
To learn more about the work that Eleni was doing art that time, check out the project blog:www.poeticsofhealing.blogspot.com/
From Eleni's blog on the Poetics of Healing:
" Every disease is a musical problem; every cure a musical solution. -- Novalis
Poetics: theories of creation. The art of how things are composed. Healing, too, an art of composition, the art of making whole—which may yet lie in asymmetry, fragmentation, chronicity, disability.
The Poetics of Healing series began with a desire to investigate the therapeutic dimensions of poetry and other art, and to explore the uses of poetic language, sound, and imagery in a wide range of medical and somatic practices, across different cultural traditions. Through the diversity of our participants—who include poets, physicians, ethnographers, historians, psychotherapists, diviners, disability activists, visual and performance artists—the series has evolved to ask questions about how healing is imagined, created, and performed on multiple levels, from the subtle body to the body politic. Our intention is to foster a public forum where different perspectives and practices can be put into conversation—to make possible an interdisciplinary exploration of method, scientific and creative, somatic and scholarly, in ways that might be unexpected and mutually generative."