International Forum on Artistic Research
17th Conference of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR)
Submission Number: 225
Submission ID: 283
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Created: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 - 16:21
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Given name Róisín
Surname O'Gorman
Email r.ogorman@ucc.ie
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Title Between the tongue (lingua) and the finger (digitus): moving between language and writing.
Format Workshop
Main language English
Abstract Following the distinctions made by ceramicist Tom Kemp, between language (lingua: tongue) and writing (digitus: finger), this workshop will offer somatic explorations of the the physical structures of tongue and fingers to play with the ways writing moves and moving writes. Attending to the material structures supports playful ways of listening to the fine motor dance and sensory possibilities of language and writing in embodied ways. This workshop emerges from a sustained practice in exploring ways of moving into and out of writing finding pathways and possibilities within the limits and of each modality. The on-going loops of attending to both the movement in writing and how writing can bring us into moving counters hegemonic use of writing as law, authority, or as a fixing in place. How then can we set writing in motion? How can we attend to the somatic, bodily textures within writing and expand writing’s vitality? How can this writing in turn help us to attend to mirco and everyday movement as significant and signifying beyond the heightened attention to virtuosic movement? The workshop explores asemic writing, attending to the peripheral and tangential murmurations where movement and language loop in meaning making. We will move and write together and see what emerges from our shared experiences and approaches to speaking and mark making, moving and di/stilling.

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Short biographies of the presenter(s)
  • Dr. Róisín O’Gorman lectures in Department of Theatre at University College Cork. Her current research examines performance as an interdisciplinary epistemology. Her work articulates the joint space between creative arts practice and traditional scholarship interweaving practice as a Somatic Movement Educator along with creative arts practice and traditional scholarship. This work results in arts-based research projects, essays in international journals, book chapters and video essays which develop conceptual knowledge and integrate those concepts through the varied forms.
Previous presentations or iterations of the research I have an ongoing somatic practice and have offered a range of what I call 'move into writing' workshops. This theme has developed from that ongoing practice but this is a new development in the work.
Additional information . I have proposed this as a workshop to more experientially share the work. However, I also can present a more regular conference paper with samples of the work if that is more feasible in the conference programming.
Spatial and technical requirements I have proposed to offer a movement based workshop. This works best in a studio type space where is more comfortable to move freely if that is possible. I would also like to be able to share some images and play some music (but can bring a bluetooth speaker and give handouts if needs be.)
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