Inquiry

How are bodies agents of knowledge production? What can bodily movement—from controlled and slow to improvised and abrupt—tell us, when words are inadequate? Whether performed collectively or by oneself, how do bodies generate, regenerate, or challenge ways of knowing? Created and understood through lived experience, performance, choreography, or pedagogical study, embodied knowledge embraces the body as a discursive site to address, resist or bring to light oppressive histories and harmful ideologies initiated and sustained by settler-colonialist, capitalist, and ableist institutions. The artists, curators, activists, and researchers represented in the list below ask us to consider: How can embodied practice become provocation to think and act differently? Incorporating dance, ambulation, collaborative action, improvisation, endurance, and stasis, these projects, performances, exhibitions, and publications amplify movements in Indigenous water justice, data sovereignty, disability rights, economic justice, and decolonial scholarship.