We are really transitioning into a very uncertain period of time for the future of humanity. Nowadays, in this broader global socio-political-ecological crisis and technological dehumanization we are going through, what does it mean to “have a body,” or in other words, “to be a body”? I believe in the power of art to give a material form to ideas that influence our way of thinking, and especially in physical expression to articulate and manifest something deeply embedded in human nature, leading to a reconsideration of how we as humans perceive and engage with life. By beginning with the ecology of the performing body and exemplifying my ideas, I suggest an answer to the problems I observe through my own truth, and I hope my work will become a paradigm that will orient people within the challenges of our age. This course becomes an embodied kind of research and an extension of my personal life in which I critically study my own body, and I develop principles and practice. Here, the experiential meets the intellectual–where being and knowing work inextricably together–forming a more comprehensive understanding of the human body overall. In this way, I investigate the inherent creativity of the body and express its authenticity highlighting the politics of the body. Centering the human body at the core of my practice and from here, communicating my ideas with the public, one of the most important aspects of my work is the ethos behind being involved with creation—to affect and being affected. In this sense, can social change be possible?

I see this change as an individual path towards embodied understanding—an ongoing process of challenging oneself, exploring one’s limitations and taking important risks that leads one to give material form to that which has not yet manifested. The human body is situated at the edge of potential, between the possible and the impossible, the boundary between which is not fixed, but rather constantly dynamic and changing, shifting and expanding within the immediate present. While art is a lens through which humans give an expanded form to life, performance shines through as a meeting point of synchronization between the artist and the artwork, the act of creation and the creation, the artist and the audience—in this inseparable encounter where the performer’s body presents and gives its tangible answer to what it means to be human. With the human body serving as the connection point between art and life, my research project Morphoplastics re-envisions the field of performance, while attempting to redefine what the human body is, within and beyond art.