Modes of Embodied Artistic Research
Introduction
Research within Multi Layered Body does not take place through a single format.
Each research event creates a different environment in which questions concerning embodiment, perception, space, and transformation can be investigated.
Rather than separating artistic production, education, and research, Multi Layered Body approaches these activities as interconnected modes of inquiry.
Every Research Event functions as a temporary research environment in which knowledge is generated through embodied practice, critical reflection, and collective investigation.
Four Modes of Research
Multi Layered Body currently develops research through four complementary formats:
Research Events
├── Lecture
├── Lecture Performance
├── Workshop
└── Research Laboratory
These formats differ in structure, but they share a common objective:
to investigate how embodiment emerges through changing relations.
Lecture
Conceptual Research in Dialogue
Lectures introduce the theoretical framework of Multi Layered Body while remaining grounded in embodied practice.
Rather than presenting fixed conclusions, lectures invite participants into an ongoing process of inquiry.
Topics may include:
Multi Layered Body
Fold
Interference
Critical Body
Embodied Emergence
Choreography as Condition Design
Artistic Research
Performance as Knowledge Production
Lectures are suitable for:
universities,
research institutions,
museums,
symposiums,
conferences,
festivals.
Theory is presented as an evolving research field rather than a closed philosophical system.
Lecture Performance
Thinking Through Performance
Lecture Performances combine theoretical discussion with live embodied investigation.
Performance is not used to illustrate ideas.
Instead, bodily practice itself becomes a mode of thinking.
Participants witness how concepts emerge through physical transformation rather than verbal explanation alone.
Each Lecture Performance investigates questions such as:
How does a body emerge?
How is perception reorganized?
What happens when bodily structures become unstable?
How do space and embodiment continuously produce one another?
Rather than explaining movement, the event exposes research in real time.
Workshop
Collective Embodied Investigation
Workshops provide participants with direct access to selected research tools developed within Multi Layered Body.
Rather than teaching choreography or movement vocabulary, workshops establish conditions for investigating embodiment.
Activities may include:
Perceptual Scores
Temporal Scores
Spatial Scores
Pressure Scores
Fold Scores
Interference Scores
Voice and Breath Scores
Participants are invited to explore:
attention,
perception,
bodily organization,
spatial awareness,
material interaction,
relational presence.
Each workshop adapts to the experience, interests, and context of its participants.
The objective is not technical mastery but embodied inquiry.
Research Laboratory
Long-Term Collaborative Investigation
The Research Laboratory represents the most extensive format within Multi Layered Body.
Unlike a workshop, which introduces specific methodologies, the laboratory develops sustained collective research over an extended period.
Participants engage in ongoing cycles of:
experimentation,
observation,
documentation,
discussion,
reflection,
reconfiguration.
The laboratory functions as a shared research environment where new knowledge emerges through repeated investigation.
Possible research themes include:
Layered Embodiment
Fold and Interference
Critical Body
Materiality
Spatial Transformation
Collective Perception
Artistic Research Methodologies
Research outcomes may include:
performances,
publications,
exhibitions,
lecture performances,
diagrams,
scores,
documentation,
further research questions.
Shared Research Principles
Although each Research Event has a different format, all are guided by common principles.
Embodiment as Research
The body is not merely the object of investigation.
It is the medium through which research takes place.
Practice Generates Knowledge
Knowledge emerges through experimentation, perception, and embodied reflection.
Practice is not the application of theory.
It is a mode of inquiry in its own right.
Conditions Rather Than Results
Research Events establish conditions in which transformation becomes possible.
They do not prescribe predetermined outcomes.
Collective Inquiry
Research develops through dialogue among bodies, environments, materials, and ideas.
Knowledge is understood as relational rather than individual.
Open Methodology
Each event remains adaptable to its context.
Methods evolve through continuous experimentation rather than fixed protocols.
Suitable Contexts
Research Events may be developed in collaboration with:
universities,
art academies,
dance conservatories,
museums,
galleries,
theatres,
festivals,
residency programmes,
interdisciplinary research centres,
independent artistic organisations.
Each event is designed in dialogue with the hosting institution.
The structure, duration, and methodology are adapted according to the specific research context.
Invitation
Multi Layered Body welcomes collaborations with institutions and individuals interested in artistic research, embodied practice, and interdisciplinary dialogue.
Research Events can be developed as:
guest lectures,
lecture performances,
workshops,
research laboratories,
symposium contributions,
collaborative projects,
residency programmes.
Every collaboration begins with a shared question.
The research develops through encounter.
Closing Statement
Research Events are not educational products or performance formats.
They are temporary environments for embodied investigation.
Each event creates a situation in which bodies, materials, spaces, and ideas can interact, interfere, and transform.
The purpose is not to communicate fixed knowledge.
It is to generate new knowledge through embodied research.