Workshop: Body/ Bodily Resonance

Abstract

Through the use of somatic movement modalities Butoh, Body Weather Laboratory, and Noguchi Taiso, seah proposes that one can experience oneself as a water bag. As a water bag, the body’s interfaces become porous and attenuate to sound in new ways. This workshop is meant for the nondancer/mover and specifically asks those working with sound to experiment with the body’s capacity to be resonant as well as a vessel for/of resonance. A similar workshop has also been given at Moxsonic Experimental Sound Festival at the University of Missouri, Warrensburg in March 2020, although seah has been teaching such workshops for dancers including at University of Wisconsin – Michigan, and for fine art students at California College of the Arts and Art College of Alberta – Calgary.

Biography

seah (Chelsea Heikes) composes sound and video for installation and performance art. Trained in Butoh, Body Weather Laboratory, and Noguchi Taiso, the compositions are an expression of somatic experiences housed deep within the sinews of the body. seah’s solo work and collaborative project (post doom romance), have been reviewed by several experimental sound art writers. The art duo dismantles notions of linear time/space through layered audio-visual assemblages culled from inner and outer psychogeographies. Seah has a BFA from California College of the Arts, an MA from European Graduate School and has guest lectured at CCA in San Francisco, Alberta University of the Arts in Calgary (Canada), and University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Artistic work and philosophical writing have been presented throughout Europe and North America.