Session 1: 2:30 pm – 3:15pm in the Emerging Technology Studio (180 Hopkins Hall Annex)
Session 2: 3:30 - 4:30 pm Somatic/Movement-based Practices on the Oval.
Explore queer ecological perspectives and experiences of embodiment that disrupt normative constructions of the body as bounded, separate, and impermeable. We will discuss and practice strategies for developing a greater felt sense of our own bodies as well as how our felt sense of self expands or transforms through moving in and out of intentional relationships with other bodies—both human and more-than-human. Who and how else might we become as we traverse promiscuous embodied relations through our movement? What more becomes possible when we invite human and more-than-human others into our bodies through moving together? How might these experiences shape not only how we approach ourselves and one another, but also our collective movements and our relationship with a planet in crisis?
No previous movement experience needed!
Biography: Michael J. Morris is a dance artist, astrologer, tarot reader, writer, and educator. They hold a PhD in Dance Studies from The Ohio State University, and they were a Visiting Assistant Professor at Denison University from 2015-2021 where they taught in Dance, Women’s and Gender Studies, Queer Studies, and Environmental Studies. Michael’s choreographic and performance work draws influences from Japanese Butoh, ritual practices, and early formalist postmodern dance and has been presented at universities, galleries, community spaces, theaters, bars and nightclubs, films, and domestic spaces.
Since 2023, the Lichen Likers, with the Living Art and Ecology Lab have been hosting a workshop series, where our art communities are ‘learning’ from lichens, ‘observing and experiencing.
Since 2023, @lichenlikers have been hosting workshops, where our art communities are ‘learning’ from lichens, ‘observing and experiencing’ their symbiotic lifestyle, and ‘conceptualizing and practicing’ creative activities with lichens.
