Common Sense Common Space

The handbook “Common Sense Common Space” approaches the politics of movement in cities from a choreographic and psychosomatic perspective.

For the residency, Melissa Harrison developed a handbook of scores titled “Common Sense | Common Space: (E)merging (Data) Sensing Bodies” to serve as the basis for the movement workshop with the students of the EUR ArTec Master programme.

The handbook offers a framework, outlined in three acts and various scenes, that utilizes somatic and choreographic practices as invitations to explore an immersive ethnography of the senses and bodily capacities in and across urban space. Moreover, the movement scores embedded in the various acts aim to excavate existing gestures, practices, and slippages of commoning as well as ignite the forthcoming and performative.

Commoning is understood, here, as praxis which involves a process of sharing and negotiation, amongst (a) community/ies of commoners; the material/immaterial wealth—and responsibility—to be shared, the common(s); and the social practice of being and doing in common, commoning. As such, the handbook aims to stimulate questions regarding social, spatial, and ecological justice while gesturing towards embodied and collective experiences of post-human commoning in the city, across differences, towards care-full futures.