The Liquid Architecture of Bodily Folding

Bodily folding, which includes enfolding and unfolding as points of entrance and departure or pathways that change spatial navigation through and with a particular material, matter or substance, could be seen as the baseline state of being within the continuum of action. Biologically, enfolding nurtures the self. It is a form of nest building, a fractal development of an internal structure, a deepening with the self. Unfolding, on the other hand, opens to the world. Unfolding is readiness, structural stability and creative mobility. It’s movement beyond the self. In this interview, Susan Sentler, dancer, choreographer and multidisciplinary artist, discusses folding as a cellular, bodily and geological practice as well as a form of somatic intelligibility.

Citation:
Sentler, Susan. ''The Liquid Architecture of Bodily Folding." Symbolism 2019: Special Focus: Beyond Mind, edited by Natasha Lushetich, et al., Berlin/Boston, DeGruyter, 2019, pp. 137-148, doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110634952.