Conducting Embodied Research at the Intersection of Performance Studies, Experimental Ethnography and Indigenous Methodologies

Abstract

Grounding embodied research in Indigenous method-ologies as well as feminist, sensory and experimental ethnog-raphy, I propose an alternative performance-based approachmodelled on the creative work of women from different culturesand generations who collaborated with influential theatre inno-vator Jerzy Grotowski. I infer from my experimental fieldworkand embodied research on the work of these artists that posi-tionality, relationality, relevance, respect, and reciprocity arecritical to articulating experiential ways of cognition beyond thelimitations imposed by dominant conceptions of knowledge.Having foregrounded the Indigenous and environmentalist cri-tique of performance-based methodologies derived from thework of Augusto Boal and Paulo Freire, I suggest that alterna-tive approaches which allow for the interrelation of creativity,agency, embodiment and spirituality can help promote morediverse and inclusive perspectives.

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