The term \u201ctraceology\u201d comes from the words trace (trahere) and science or discourse (-logia), and therefore designates the \u2018discourse\u2019 or \u2018science of traces\u2019. The term \u201ctraceology\u201d designates a scientific method used in archaeology, more specifically prehistoric archaeology. It aims to determine the function of an ancient tool by studying the traces left upon it, to observe the polish and wear and tear, even down to a microscopic scale. As such, these traces offer clues; how the tool was used and its function, how it was handled, the movement it generated and the matter it was meant to alter.
\nThis new project, Traceology, is part of my research on movement and the exploration of subtexts as possible motors for physical action, as well as my study of body dynamics and states. This time, however, the work is envisioned in a societal context of (post-) pandemic reality wherein our relationship to others has been \u201camputated\u201d when it comes to the sense of \u201ctouch\u201d, a touch that, despite everything, remains fundamental to physical work.
\nWhat interests me in the science of \u201ctraceology\u201d is how it ultimately relies on studying a series, a sequence of \u2018contacts\u2019 and therefore of \u2018touches\u2019; the contact between hand and object, object and matter, and consequently, the hand whose action transforms matter. A science of traces or, as this project views it, a discourse of gestures\u2014here the interest is in all the possible variations of nuance when executing the same gesture or a multiplicity of gestures, while also probing the degree of dramatic intensity in the resulting dance.
\nWorking through explorations, we will approach the vestiges of gestures as signs of disappearance to be incorporated, but also as traces that we will collect, classify or cite while delving into the material imprints that we see remaining.
\nHow do you touch a gesture or action?
\nHow can you activate the trace of a gesture or movement?
\nHow do we accompany the emergence of action?
\nHow can we touch an inner movement?
\nHow do you slide from one gesture to another, moved by the images carried, evoked, called forth in every one of us?
\nHow can we create a score in which the memories of infinite past touches become passageways that we inhabit fully, in the present moment?
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