Keynote Provocation
11 June 2025
Embodied Research Methods in Music & Sound
Study Day
Practice Research Study Group
Royal Music Association
Sound Practice and Research @ City St George’s
University of London
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This keynote provocation will introduce the open-access videographic Journal of Embodied Research and consider the meaning of “embodiment” in that context. While many researchers today would agree that embodied research can be allied to queer, feminist, and decolonial ethics and politics, there is little consensus on what that means in theory or in practice. This talk will compare and contrast approaches in cognitive studies, new materialisms, and black feminist theory as frameworks for embodied research across disciplines and methods. Examples of practice/artistic research will include Spatz’s ongoing Judaica Project, which proposes to develop decolonial jewishness in service of a black planetary.