
Corpus is an ongoing research process into touch, non-vision and haptic perception as ways of stimulating new ways of perceiving the body, the other and the world. Through exercises of improvisation and sensitization of the senses (understood here as overlapping, innumerable and inter-related) we aim to explore the relational body – simultaneously created and creative, active and passive, touching and touched. The intention is to develop wide-ranging knowledge, rooted in the direct, subjective experience of the body, raising the possibility of a community of sensing bodies in motion with relationality prevailing over identity. We are interested in investigating the meaning of touch in the current context where everything related to physical contact and the skin has become an object of fear and distrust. In our practice we perceive that it is precisely the inherently relational and temporal quality of touch that permits a deterritorialization of pre-existing conceptions of the body, be they biological, gendered or political, connecting us to a constantly evolving time-space continuum, where the body reveals itself to be an event, affected and constructed through its relations more than an as isolated object to be classified and defined and thereby more easily controlled. In this way, touch, non-vision and haptic perception become a vehicle to connect in another way with the environment and with other bodies, both human and non-human. In this way the open and dynamic relationship between interior and exterior landscapes, between memory and desire informs and shapes our creative and dramaturgical research. After two years of research through laboratories, immersions and performances, we are now going deeper into the relationship between body and the environment, taking our exploration to open environments, both urban and rural. The state of body opening achieved in this process helps us to rescue the memory of the spaces, listening to their voices and inherent choreographies - information that we aim to add to the textual and performative creation of our future works.

