Listening to the land: Exploring indigenous place-thought through ecosomatic art

Jacks, Cairi 2024. Listening to the land: Exploring indigenous place-thought through ecosomatic art. Agoriad 1 (1) , 1.11. 10.18573/agoriad.7

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Abstract

This paper introduces a twenty-minute-long audio artwork that invites you to listen whilst taking a walk in an outdoor green space. The artwork guides the listener through a series of exercises for expanding sensory awareness and increasing embodied and intuitive engagement with their surroundings. As background this paper briefly explores the concepts and methodological pointers offered by scholar of Indigenous Studies Watts’ description of Indigenous Place-Thought; the understanding that the earth is animate and that humans are an extension of the earth. The paper also draws on the emergent field of eco-somatic art which focuses on the body as a site of connection and knowing. Therefore the artwork is an invite into a different kind of relationship. Listening to it helps to explore what happens to the way we feel about, and behave towards, the land if we take Indigenous frameworks, and the shift in perspective they offer, seriously. Mae'r papur hwn yn cyflwyno gwaith celf sain ugain munud o hyd sy'n eich gwahodd chi i wrando wrth fynd am dro mewn man gwyrdd awyr agored. Mae'r gwaith celf yn arwain y gwrandäwr trwy gyfres o ymarferion er mwyn ehangu ei ymwybyddiaeth synhwyraidd a chynyddu ei ymgysylltiad corfforol a greddfol â'u hamgylchedd. Mae cefndir y papur yn trin a thrafod yn gryno y cysyniadau a'r awgrymiadau methodolegol sy’n cael eu cynnig gan yr ysgolhaig Astudiaethau Brodorol Watts a’u disgrifiad o'r Llemeddwl Brodorol; sef y ddealltwriaeth bod y ddaear yn fyw a bod pobl yn estyniad o'r ddaear. Mae'r papur hefyd yn defnyddio celf eco-somatig, maes sy’n dod i’r amlwg ac sy'n canolbwyntio ar y corff yn safle o gysylltiad a gwybodaeth. Felly, mae'r gwaith celf yn wahoddiad i fath gwahanol o berthynas. Mae gwrando arno yn ein helpu ni i ystyried sut mae’r ffordd rydyn ni’n teimlo tuag at y tir, ac yn ymddwyn tuag ato, yn newid os ydyn ni’n cymryd fframweithiau Brodorol, a'r persbectif newydd maen nhw’n ei gynnig, o ddifrif.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General)
Publisher:	Cardiff University Press
ISSN:	2976-8578
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	10 December 2024
Date of Acceptance:	23 May 2024
Last Modified:	12 Mar 2025 11:44
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/174670

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