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BODY IQ 2021 celebrates Bodies of Cultures, Communities & Placeshttps://www.bodyiq.berlin/
19. - 21. November 2021
Somatics Festival
Live in Berlin AND Online!
BODY IQ 2021 aims to address questions of embodied recovery & revisioning in the context of global ethical, social & ecological crises and change. Somatic practices have moved beyond a field of sensorial, experiential and emancipatory learning into wider educational, therapeutic, artistic and social-justice contexts. Body IQ Festival recognises the urgent need for meaningful re-embodiment of increasingly digitalised cultural communities in a pandemic and post-pandemic world.
BODY IQ 2021 offers forum for practice exchange, practice-theory dialogue, debate, experiment, networking, application and articulation of potential for somatic-activisms beyond the field into a diverse range of cultural and social environments. The three-day festival offers workshops, talks, panel-discussions and performances with international presenters. The festival will offer live and online participation and modes of communication in line with codes of safer practice.
The title of BODY IQ 2021 has been inspired by the term Bodies of cultures, coined by Resmaa Menekem, Healer, Trauma Specialist and Author of the book ‘My Grandmother’s Hands’ (2017). His ground breaking work raises our awareness of the somatic sources of racial trauma. It suggests that the power for change is to be found in our bodies, and how our brains have been wired through centuries. It refers to white-body supremacy which through colonialist European oppression still impacts our daily life today, and how black, brown, POC bodies are being perceived. Menekem also coined the inspiring term Somatic Abolitionism as an emergent ‘living, embodied anti-racist practice and cultural building —a way of being in the world’.
// How do we articulate somatic-informed practices as sensitive tools for social and political transformation?
// How do we address hidden and embodied ideologies, modes of exclusion, oppression and privilege within our growing field?
// How do we take responsibility for mobilising, activating and organising meaningful ethical embodied interaction in a rapidly changing world?
// How do we move beyond a historically inscribed ‘whiteness’ of the field towards a making space for global-majority bodies of culture?
// How can somatic practices contribute toward a re-embodiment of attention and sustainable human interaction with a living world?
Find out more and check out the program at:
https://www.bodyiq.berlin/
Get your tickets before they are gone:
https://body-iq-festival.ticket.io/
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Somatische Akademie Berlin, Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30, 10999 Berlin, Germany, Berlin
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