Morphoplastics

About

Founded by Kyriakos Apostolidis (b. Drama, Greece 1991), Morphoplastics is an interdisciplinary, practice-based research project in the field of performance, centered on the kinesthetic psychophysical awareness (KPA) of the performer. Using movement as a primary means of expression and sense-making, KPA makes use of perception and duration to explore the affective capacities of the performing body and tap into prehension, resulting in postural reconfigurations. This movement research works on modalities of enacted, embodied agency to investigate proprioceptive forms of being, knowing, and becoming understood as an onto-epistemological inquiry. This insightful practice is a methodological interoception and experimental exercise in which the performer draws lines of correspondence from within transductive embodied processes understood as intra-action.

Research Statement

I see art beyond symbols and identity, in its first place, existing as a pure creative process in the act of feeling and perceiving. Such a relationship constitutes the basis of my practice, the way of viewing the artist’s body as the first medium where affect and cognition as psychophysical, biological processes involve consciousness. This approach opens a field of research, I call Morphoplastics. Here, embodied presence turns to a critical examination and where movement is the means with which to understand the material agency of being a body. This performative kind of research concerns a rigorous integration of both body-based epistemology, the study of knowing, and ontology, the study of being. This inquiry is better understood as living practice, an evolving mediation between potentiality and actuality, an ongoing process of becoming. Here, nothing is fixed and finished, but exists in the realm of the relational and entangled nature of reality that creates the enabling conditions for research to converge and coalesce into new, ever-advancing forms of coherence. Physical expression is nothing more than exploration of one’s capacities of feeling and perceiving through a kinesthetic, intelligent movement of empowerment. This is morphoplasticity, the agency over one’s own individual becoming as an evolving process of changing and taking on new embodied forms.