The Embodied diagrams of Nicholas Gansterer

In his work drawing is conceived as a translational bodily course of.  My understanding of this being that as an extension of the physique, a pencil extends my fingers, as an alternative of my fingers simply with the ability to go away marks by scratching strains within the sand, a pencil or charcoal stick or some other drawing implement, permits me to go away a greater diversity of traces of my physique’s motion, particularly these actions managed by my embodied ideas.  He makes use of the time period embodied diagrams to increase the notion of scoring, which I’ve interpreted as a type of musical rating, one thing that may be checked out by others and ‘performed’ or adopted as an concept or imaginative immediate.  The central concern is learn how to translate and visualise thought processes, each acutely aware and unconscious, Gansterer describing the resultant drawings as epistemic objects for the reader.

Gansterer has developed a cartography for the diagrammatic (re-)presentation of embodied information(s) and in doing so he demonstrates how it’s doable to visualise the interrelationship of ourselves and the world. In an analogous strategy to myself he has tried to depict each interoceptive and perceptual experiences, however he has been a lot happier to annotate the resultant photographs, while I’ve all the time steered away from utilizing phrases as a result of I’ve all the time felt that they management the understanding in a manner that removes a drawing’s means to be open to interpretation. Gansterer’s diagrams nevertheless are conceived in such a manner that the annotations and the drawing are each a part of the evaluation of the state of affairs, the one can’t exist with out the opposite, and a few latest drawings of my very own have advised to myself that maybe I shouldn’t be so cautious of phrases; in any case I take advantage of them on a regular basis to write down this weblog. 

Nicholas Gansterer: Choreo-graphic embodied diagams

My very own latest photographs compared really feel I believe too ‘arty’ or too conscious of fantastic artwork conventions, however as I am so entangled into the method I shall should ask a few of my very own collaborators whether or not or not that is the case. You can also make choices your self, these are two drawings attempting to speak the interoceptual sensations of abdomen ache and a respiratory restriction. 

abdomen ache

respiratory restriction

Each the drawings above are photographs derived instantly from my very own private experiences of contained in the physique happenings and they’re makes an attempt to visualise the emotions that I had on the time. These may be in contrast with the 2 drawings under of issues seen, or perceptual experiences, one among a wheatfield  drawn in the course of the summer season when strolling in West Wittering and the opposite drawn lately of some limitations that have been erected to maintain the general public away from a constructing web site that I usually stroll previous on my strategy to work. 

Wheatfield West Wittering

Boundaries on the sting of a constructing web site

I’ve begun to know ’emotions’ as being central to the difficulty of how the physique ‘talks’ to us, I’ve due to this fact begun to make use of emotive color as an indicator of the sensation tone that I’m attempting to speak. As a result of I’m increasingly more conscious of interconnecting ‘fields’ of motion and the character of vibration as an underlying pressure behind all issues skilled, my perceptual drawings have become far more about rhythmic encounters than data of details and my subsequent collection of photographs are going to be about how the 2 processes of inside and exterior consciousness are introduced collectively. With a purpose to try this I am rigorously making my manner via ‘The Unusual Order Of Issues’ by Antonio Damasio, a e book that’s serving to me take into consideration how picture schema have developed in several methods at totally different instances and the way the nervous system has developed to deal with the physique’s evolutionary path. As I learn I’m starting to see my interoceptual experiences as belonging to a a lot older evolutionary root and due to this fact being topic to being understood far more intuitively than perceptual experiences.