ABSTRACT
Our body creates lines. It creates lines when moving by leaving traces of temporary lines, as when we dance or swing our limbs. Our mind creates lines when we imagine events along a timeline or when delineating conceptual borders, like between nature and culture. Our body also visually and sensually perceives lines in our environment, organising the world around us in organic or straight lines. Through our body, lines become a fundamental part of our experience. Lines appear as important concepts in fields like cognitive linguistics, developmental psychology, and philosophy of mind. We could think of experience as a layering of lines of different modalities: lines that we imagine, lines that we make with our body, and lines that we perceive sensually. The field of Linealogy, introduced by Tim Ingold, proposes a way of looking at the world through lines. Ingold's categorisation looks at how lines are made. This proposal is interested in exploring where they are made, as a re-categorisation through the body. Placing different practises and fields near each other under the framework of lines asks the audience to actively engage in the topic and create bridges between research topics. Movement and dance are shown to be methods for investigating these connections between fields where the dynamics of lines resonate across three distinct areas of our experience.
