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Element# 1.1 Foreign languages MAPS OF BROKEN bodies by Pat Toh My current research is based on a performance work, A Map of Scars, Bruises and Broken Bones, which I created as part of the Discipline exhibition at Substation in 2017. Map : A spatial representation of reality Spatial : Representation : Reality : Consisting of at least two dimensions and usually referring to geographic space Something that stands for something else The totality of all things possessing actuality, existence, or essence Body : A concrete, material, animate organisation of flesh, organs, nerves, muscles, and skeletal structure. A body is defined, delimited, and articulated by what writes it, it is the surface and raw material of an integrated organisation of physical and social inscription. The body is organically/biologically/naturally “incomplete”; it is indeterminate, amorphous. A series of uncoordinated potentialities which require social triggering, ordering, and long-term “administration,” regulated in each culture and epoch by what Foucault has called “the micro-technologies of power.” The body, a human body, a body which coincides with the “shape” and space of a psyche, a body whose epidermal surface bounds a psychical unity, a body which thereby defines the limits of experience and subjectivity,in rule-governed social order. (Bodies-Cities, Grosz) I was working with the idea of mapping as an external spatial and visual exercise. Performers of different ages and sizes go through a cycle of placing themselves in the space, lining themselves up against each other before performing a collective and individual repetitive action and sound. Based on codes of formalised movement language such as a sport or a dance form and its mechanic reproduction, a step-by-step sequence of a physical regime loops into a series of gestures forming phases that repeat themselves cyclically. The movement was composed from daily postures set in linear patterns and collective repetitive actions to comment on the discipline and control of bodies operating in a fixed regime of space and time. For the residency at Dance Nucleus, my research was about designing a movement practice and developing means of embodying the idea of mapping. I wanted to put the focus on the performer and started to look at creating a process that will bringing the ideas into physical experience. In the mentorship program with Arco Renz, I connected with his use of breath as an expressive medium, a physical pump which can connect between forms. I began to engage with my breath and use it as a mode to measure the internal sense of my body. That brought the inquiry into the body and the research gradually evolved from external languages to internal ones. 19 20
Element# 1.1 Foreign languages Maps of broken bodies by Pat Toh I was interested to measure and represent the body as a kinetic energetic terrain. How do I measure and transmit internal sensations? I experimented with measuring its sense of depth and intensity the body through modes of measurement using joints, breath and muscles. I looked into the body as phenomenon as I go through a process of sensing and representing internal spaces by going through a process of breathing, tensing and jerking. MOVEMENT SCORE Basic shape: Walk along a diagonal line across the space Sit, squat, stand, lie down along the line Test the length and reach of head, legs and arms I devised the movement score as a frame. (next page) Pat Toh’s research reference. Breath: Breathe in and out through the nose Where in the body do you send the breath to? Work into the extremities of volume, physical expansion and compression Increase the speed of breath Muscle: Tensing-density Tracing paths like marking coordinate of a map Isolated muscles contraction Nerves: Twitch 21 22
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