Slow Build acknowledges that practice is never isolated; it is always relational and distinct. By surfacing relations and affinities to certain fields of thought—such as contemporary anatomy, feminist science studies, and dance studies (ethics of practice)—this workshop aspires to offer a space where participants can reinvigorate their personal and shared practice interests.

Participants will be invited to attend to the specificity of the practice propositions, aligned with Isabelle Stengers’ call that “no practice be defined as ‘like any other’” (2005). By honing attention to practices as they diverge, Slow Build foregrounds the multiplicity of bodily ways of knowing, hence resisting universalizing conceptions of the body and movement.