I Think My Body Feels, I Feel My Body Thinks: On Corpoliteracy

<p><em>I Think My Body Feels, I Feel My Body Thinks: On Corpoliteracy</em> is a gathering of texts and textures from lyricists, theorists, organisers, artists and practitioners. The publication draws from recent programmes, acquisitions and trajectories within the Van Abbemuseum, alongside essays and new commissions to explore different modalities of – and relationships to – corpoliteracy. The book comprises writing, sound and video work, a queer sign glossary with sixteen video entries, and edited conversations.</p> <p>The term corpoliteracy was coined by curator and polymath Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and speaks to a consciousness of mind and body rhythm-equity. Ndikung’s thinking has been central to the development of this publication, as well as a reference point for a number of contributors. In tandem with recent thinking around the term, the publication also draws on more historical positions, such as that of the Brazilian curator and educator Frederic Morais, that implicate the body in different ways. Taken together, the publication comprises a series of propositions, modifications and detours around the term corpoliteracy that are aimed at unsettling and expanding readers’ relationship to the corporeal.</p>