„When I think of my body, and ask what it does to earn that name, two things stand out. It moves. It feels. In fact, it does both at the same time. It moves as it feels, and it feels itself moving. Can we think a body without this: an intrinsic connection between movement and sensation, whereby each immediately summons the other?” Brian Massumi, Parables from the Virtual

The workshop EMOTIONAL BODY 2 will focus on the relation between sound, objects and movement: How does the voicing of objects interact with the body? How do sound, body and space relate to each other and to affect and movement? How can we break out of the grid of predefined emotions and meaning?
To explore these issues by a theoretical approach, I want to outline a concept of the body as a sensoric-affective landscape: the skin, covering surface of the body, is a tactile shell, responding to physical phenomena such as cold or heat, as well as to the ambient acoustic sphere: sounds, tones and voices touch the skin by waves and vibrations: they invade us, they impinge, depress and move us. Relating to Gernot Böhme´s concept of “atmosphere” and to Michel Serres´ thoughts on skin, I want to introduce the concept of bodyscape as it comprises the interplay between sound, body and space: bodyscape, understood as a dynamic cartography of the bodyskin, is to be conceptualized as a space-between, which eludes definite fixation of meaning. The skin: final frontier of the body, an area of demarcation, indetermined territory; it confuses depth and surface, inside and outside, subject and object.
The concept of bodyscape thereby wants to facilitate a non-linear, complex approach of sensation and movement, destabilize pre-defined patterns and open up a polyvalent, multilayered space of agency.