“The experiencing body”, for a combination of movements

Abstract

This paper describes our experiment as artists, concerned by scientific investigations, that led us to "declare" and helped us to develop our creation/ knowledge: we have been practicing various technologies, have confronted our investigations to neuro/cognitivists, sociologists, ethnologists, engineering scientists and roboticians, mathematicians, psychologists, but we have also met shamans (in the Indonesian jungle, in the Norwegian Sapmi, by the Innus of Quebec). Our practice of art allowed us to cross-study these various ways of considering the world around us, and if necessary to behave in it. Considering Gibson’s ecology of perception, Maintier, Rybak, Zinke’s experiments and theories we have also described, our performances and cross studied what a practice of Art performance and scientific experimentation can tell each other and how they could most probably give their take one another. The main point for us is here the place of the body, its perceptions and actions, its breathing, its interactions with the environment, we develop the theme of the spiral as a fundamental pattern for our investigations as well as the turbulences of the air, around and exhaling from the body.