Carmen Draxler
Keywords: Embodied research, Suspension, Collective body
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As artists, designers, and makers, we are often asked to define individual practice. But what happens when practice is collective, rooted in togetherness?
“Practical proposals of what-might-be” by TogetherTogether Collective responds to a society shaped in parallel by modernity and coloniality, where individualism is prioritized. With this work we are offering proposals for suspending our belief and involvement in these structures. This project is a participatory, embodied research project into the politicized experience of coming together.
This project is both a proposal and a question, a space where we suspend productivism, reclaim agency, imagine futures and ask: what if?
Through gatherings and public interventions, the project unfolds in three interconnected pieces, emerging from different methods of storytelling, co-creation, deep listening, and space making.
The performance, “Whispering bodies: Scores for the We” tells a story about the search for collectivity, the joys and frictions of shaping a ‘collective body’, visualizing the intangible relations and gestures of care that hold us together.
“Moving Words: A Body Glossary” presents video essays that explore how meaning is shaped through the body, becoming an archive of gestures and reflections from the research process.
“Risking entanglement” is a site-specific installation, a playground where we exercise interdependence and rehearse ‘suspension’, not as a way of escaping modernity but as a method of reflection.
Collective project by TogetherTogether:
Juliana Acero, Stefano Cattani, Carmen Draxler, Laura Flethe and Rita Gaspar