Peer-review of Joanna Kalm’s doctoral project “Spacetuning. A practice of co-becoming”

On March 19, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Joanna Kalm’s 2nd artistic research project, Spacetuning. A practice of co-becoming will take place via Zoom (LINK, Meeting ID: 650 0507 1283, Passcode:  902366)

The doctoral thesis supervisors are Liina Unt, PhD (University of Tartu) and Leena Rouhiainen, DA (University of the Arts Helsinki).
The project reviewers are Ilmari Kortelainen, PhD (University of the Arts Helsinki) and Giacomo Veronesi, PhD (Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre).

Joanna Kalm’s artistic research draws on somatic co- and self-regulation theory and is grounded in the organism’s capacity for self-organization—manifesting both at the level of the body-self and the group—with the aim of co-creating inclusive, body-based practices and spaces. Kalm approaches somatic embodiment through posthumanist and new materialist philosophy, as well as through theories of cellular consciousness and organism-oriented ontology.
One focus of the research is to examine the possible modes of being-moving of the body-self, grounded in attentive self-listening and the dynamic processes of the body-self (somatic agency). The second focus addresses the intra-active relationship between somatic embodiment and practice under development (approached as an apparatus), asking: which parameters of practice are supportive of somatic co- and self-regulation? how does an artistic-somatic embodiment approach shape the ways the practice and space function-operate?

Kalm’s 2nd peer-reviewed project Spacetuning. A practice of co-becoming is based on somatic self- and other-awareness in support of embodied being-engagement, which in turn grounds the collaborative process in which the practice framework emerges and is developed in relations. One of the key focuses of research and practice is response-ability – to one’s own process and to the group members as well as to spatial dynamics. Given that the body and the environment are co-emergent and in an intra-active relation, to what extent do we allow ourselves to truly participate in this co-becoming? And to what extent is the environment (as a socio-material process) capable of considering and responding to the differences of its participants? Thus, this practice is an attempt to move beyond the invisible and silencing boundary (is it real or habitual?) between oneself and space.

The somatic practice sessions Spacetuning. A practice of co-becoming will take place throughout March 10-14 at ARS Art Factory, daily at 4pm and on Saturday both at 12pm and 4pm.

More information and registration: https://fienta.com/et/ruumitoonimine-kaaskujunemise-praktika