Josefina Camus
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Josefina Camus' MPhil/PhD Art research project
Energy Forms
In my research I would like to emphasise the performance as an 鈥渁live鈥� experience, highlighting the state of becoming through energy. With the aim of showing the dynamic of the present emerge in time and space, revealing the process of metamorphosis as a transformation of the matter.
The main matters I would like to explore are body, sound and light. All of them have an energetic property, understanding energy as a 鈥渇orce of action鈥� with capacity to transform and perform, which radiates electromagnetic vibrations.
I鈥檓 interested in using Deleuze and Guattari鈥檚 rhizome concept to describe the body as a field of intensity, a connection of multiple forces and heterogenic non-meanings. In my research I would like to inquire how to depict the body as an energetic and polymorphic becoming. Considering the body as an open system where different structures (somatic, perceptive, coordinate and psychic) are in constant interaction. I would like to research the body as a container of polymorphic energies, looking into a wide palette of qualities in order to open up the plasticity of the body.
Using Foucault鈥檚 concept of heterotopy I鈥檓 interested in the research of ways to create energetic environments with non-hegemonic conditions, conceiving performance as a frame to create configurations of the experience that create new ways of feeling and induce new forms of subjectivity. I think this could be achieved exploring how a performance can activate space and transform it into a space of otherness, filled with potential.
Supervisors
Primary Supervisor: Edgar Schmitz
Second Supervisor: Grace Schwindt