Architectures of Embodiment: Disclosing New Intelligibilities (Think Art)

This book was originated within the research environment Architecture of Embodiment, which inquires into architecture from an enactivist perspective and through aesthetic practices. This research environment does not primarily aim to formulate answers to its main research question—how does architecture condition the emergence of sense?—but to provide the adequate conceptual, methodological, and communicative conditions to address it. Ultimately, it aims to destabilize its objects of research in order to disclose new intelligibilities of the issues under inquiry. In this sense, Architecture of Embodiment, as an environment, intends to fulfill a fundamental cognitive function of research through aesthetic practices.
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Architectures of Embodiment is a constellation of coexisting autonomous artifacts: texts by Alex Arteaga, Mika Elo, Ana García Varas, Lidia Gasperoni, Jonathan Hale, Susanne Hauser, Dieter Mersch and Gerard Vilar in dialogue with one another through comments and comments on the comments. It is conceived as a dialogical research dispositive: an invitation to participate in an open-ended process of research within a growing ecology of research practices.
 

Alex Arteaga cofounded the research group Auditive Architecture and founded the research group Embodiment and Artistic Practice at the Cooperative Dance Education Centre Berlin. He is currently a research associate in the Collegium for the Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment at Humboldt University Berlin, guest professor for aesthetics and theories of embodiment in the Master of Arts in Choreography at the Inter-University Center for Dance Berlin, guest professor for sound art at the Film School of Catalonia, and a researcher at the Social Sculpture Research Unit at Oxford Brookes University.