International Forum on Artistic Research
17th Conference of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR)
Submission Number: 146
Submission ID: 196
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Created: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 - 01:37
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Submitted by: ehill
Language: English

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Given name Erin
Surname Hill
Email erin.lamontagne@pm.me
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Title Scoring the Ineffable
Format Project presentation
Main language English
Abstract I am a second-year PhD student in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Concordia University (CA), researching nonverbal communication and consent in interspecies relationships, with particular attention to the co-languages that emerge between humans and nonhuman animals. My work investigates the relational and material poetics of the ineffable—forms of communication that exceed language yet shape everyday experience and bind humans to the more-than-human world. Animal studies and dance studies are two fields that hold expertise in forms of relationality and non-verbal expression. My research will bring these fields together, with the aim of contributing methodologies towards more responsible forms of communication between humans and nonhumans, including whom and what is listened to as a valid source of knowledge. With this presentation, I will explore a key precursor to my doctoral research: 'Telepathic Landscapes', a two-person visualization score exploring the embodied, sensorial aspects of telepathy. Initially conceived as a choreographic tool, the practice shifted my focus towards the qualities of relation generated between participants. How is communication occurring within the oblique territories of the unknowable? What happens in the field that speaks? From this field of research I became drawn to horsemanship as a practice in which the application of telepathic communication is a given. Drawing on over a decade of experience in contemporary dance and somatic practice, I am developing relational scores based on what emerges in my field work with horses. Through these scores I am interested in the power dynamics at play and I wonder how research in non-verbal forms of communication might shift relational dynamics towards care and consent oriented relationships.
Link to the Exposition https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/4212868/4219299
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Short biographies of the presenter(s)
  • Erin Hill is an artist, birth support practitioner and PhD student. Her practice is devoted to building relations with more-than-human partners, such as the sun (Sunrise Commitment, 2018) and weather (Deep Gazing, ongoing). Her research is guided by awe, the ineffable, and the situated experience of sensing, and is shaped through performance, scores, radio and self-publishing. Since 2024, Hill's research has been engaged by the nuances of beyond verbal communication and consent in interspecies relationships, for which she is pursuing a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Concordia University (CA). Erin holds a Master’s degree from DAS Theatre (formerly DasArts) in Amsterdam and makes home as a settler in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal.
Previous presentations or iterations of the research This will be my first presentation of the project
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Spatial and technical requirements I would use audiovisual support such as a projection screen and PA system, for playing documentation of the practices described in my presentation.
Potential risks or ethical concerns no
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