Embodied Practices: Horses Forces – Embodying Archive Images

The workshop will navigate the archive, exploring different ways of embodying images and giving them flesh by replacing the original figures with the performers’ bodies as a strategy to study not only what is visible – gestures, postures, positions, and anatomical implications – but also what is invisible: the political, social, cultural, and ancestral forces that traverse and sustain the action.


By embodying these narratives, the performer becomes a medium for a system – stepping down from the rider’s seat and turning into horses ridden by unseen forces. From a single still image, would it be possible to sense past or future gestures?

Engaging with principles inspired by systemic constellations and operational logics of AI-based image animation – translated into embodied experimentation – a static frame will gain movement and duration. Choreography might emerge from subtle developments of the central figure into a GIF, a loop, or a brief fictional continuation.