Borrowed Trauma - Documentation

To what extent can we use our bodies to connect with experiences we ourselves did not have, but learn about through images?

In this laboratory we explore whether empathy is something that can be excercised through simulation in order to deconstruct and comprehend the complex relationships surrounding the reenactment of others suffering in sensationalized media images. 

When and how does the embodiment of anothers tradegy become colinizing and exploitative?

By fixing the lens on the performance of the human body, what is there to be gained through the literacy of reading these images through the context of dance?

This laboratory is accompanied by an analysis of Beyonce's music video Formations in relation to Murman's research practice Kinesthetic Cinema, as a catalyst for an open dialogue with participants.