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Correspondences.
A Bodcast on Bodily Sensing Delivered in Voice Packets
A project by Savannah Theis and Valentina Curandi

Friday February 6th, 2020

00:00.00 Voice packet #1 begins

Savannah Theis
Find a place in the space you're in that feels comfortable.

Valentina Curandi
Use your body as a compass to identify where it feels good to be and what direction to face.

Savannah Theis and Valentina Curandi
Tune into your breathing,

Savannah Theis
Notice your feet on the ground or on the surface where you are located.

Valentina Curandi
Scan your body and notice the sensations that catch your attention.

Savannah Theis and Valentina Curandi
Choose one to focus on for the time being:

Valentina Curandi
maybe it’s one that is well known to you,

Savannah Theis
maybe it's something you never noticed before,

Savannah Theis and Valentina Curandi
that is unusual to pay attention to.


Archive of bodily sounds
PULSE
JOINTS
NEW RECORDING 21
TEAR DUCT QUIVERING
EAR TO HEAD
SCAB
OUTBREAK EAR
CRACKLE BREATH
SORE ANKLE
NOSE EXHALATION


Valentina Curandi
Which organ are you sensing? Which organ do you have a sensibility for?


Archive of bodily sounds
BUBBLING BELLY


Savannah Theis
Someone recently told me, I think it was someone’s grandmother, that she's so sensitive that she can feel her liver. At times of particular anxiety or stress, or even sadness, she can feel it aching. The doctors told her that it’s covered in benign cysts, which look like bubble wrap. She said she likes to think of them as, frozen tears, a bit like dewdrops forming whenever she's unable to detoxify the strains of societal life.


Archive of bodily sounds
CRACKLING BREATH


Valentina Curandi
Which one do you tend to feel and fall together with?


Archive of bodily sounds
CRACKLING BREATH


Valentina Curandi
I tend to fall together with my lungs and their power to speak about vitality.
Some organs speak to enable metaphors and become their auxiliary: We might conceive that the heart speaks of, or for, Love, that the genitals are speaking of Power, the stomach of Humors, and the lungs might as well be speaking of one’s disposition toward Life.

Savannah Theis
The word symptom originates from the Greek ‘súmptōma’, which means a happening, or an accident, or a disease. Its etymological roots are said to stem from the word ‘sympiptein’ composed of syn-, - together and píptein - to fall. Accordingly, a s…


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CUT


Savannah Theis
…ymptom can be understood as a falling together, a coinciding of happenings.

Valentina Curandi
In her book Gut Feminism, Elizabeth A. Wilson recounts S…


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CUT


Valentina Curandi
… igmund Freud’s claim that, brackets open, ‘Organs can be vehicles for thoughts, but they are not themselves capable of deliberation. Mind acts, organ follows.’ Brackets close.

Valentina Curandi
This position is one of division and distinction: A condition of weak lungs that is indeed interpreted as language speaking of acceptance - and rejection - of life, as expressed through breathing itself… well, that is falling and failing. Painfully.

Savannah Theis
A coinciding of happenings, of sensations and movement and interactions make up bodily experience, a continuum. To diagnose a symptom is to bracket this continuum of bodily experience according to health and non-health.

Valentina Curandi
While some have the power to speak metaphors – organs -, others like - parts, areas, and appendages among, in between and within the body - utter from their locations. Their ability to speak - Wilson goes on - is perhaps a biological performative that enacts the events it appears only to be symbolizing. It’s a mode of expression located in the psychically animated biological substrata of organs.

Savannah Theis
When I listen to my body and perceive sensorial processes of the nervous system, I notice the itching on the edges of my feet, the tension running along my shoulders, all the way up to the neck, the twinging of muscles, the bubbling in the digestive tract, the intermittent pressure in the temples, occasionally sharpening then subsiding.

Valentina Curandi
The word sensation comes from the Latin ‘sensus’, which indicates a physical feeling from something that comes into contact with the body. Its etymological roots are said to stand from the perfect passive partíciple of the verb séntiō (“I feel, I perceive”). Accordingly, a sensation can be understood as the detection of a stimulation performed by the body with the support of its visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory, somatosensory, proprioceptor receptive channels.

Savannah Theis
Turning my auditory attention inwards I observe that my hearing is habitually directed towards the external world.

Valentina Curandi
While the word sensation is related to the etymology of the verbs to think and to desire in German languages, a symptom is supposed to be a subjective perception of an undesirable presence in the body. Between sensation and symptom there is an opposite take on the desirability of sensing.

Savannah Theis
To turn inwards requires closing my ears, applying light pressure to the small pointed eminence of the external ear, shutting the passage to the hearing organs. At first I hear nothing [silence]. Gradually the nothing makes way to subtle nuances of sound. A low and constant


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SUBTLE NUANCES OF SILENCE


Savannah Theis
pulsing
tapping
squeaking
gurgling
creaking
the rubbing
and clicking
of joints
the whistling inhalation of air
squeezing in and out of cavities
over
and over
and over
again
creaking
and gurgling
tapping
and clicking


Archive of bodily sounds
BREATHING SOUND


Savannah Theis
again

Valentina Curandi
Stop. Cut. Start again


Archive of bodily sounds
TEAR DUCT


Savannah Theis
fluttering
vibrating
twitching
the tear duct trembles
flickering
pulsating
palpitating
quivering
signaling
beckoning
marching
for a wink of sleep
and still we lie awake.


12:46.667 Voice packet #1 ends



References
Elizabeth A. Wilson, Gut Feminism, Duke University Press, 2015, p. 76
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This voice packet unfolds the theoretical and experiential proposition of bodies as compasses oriented towards shared sensorial experiences.
Released
Apr 18, 2020
Length
12:47