Lola Gonzalez Studio
Initially coming from the dance field, Lola would describe herself as an interdisciplinary artist/designer. By combining, psychosomatics, technology and body movements she sees her work as tools to access our deepest and authentic selves.
Through sensory, experiential and interactive work, she is particularly interested in exploring collective energy within the landscape of contemporary society, body memory, its body expression through movements as means of internal healing and understanding our own personal stories and heritage.
She completed her BA in the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2023, for which she received a Cum Laude. She has also obtained a diploma as a specialist in psychosomatic therapy and is currently exploring technology as a tool for interpreting movements from the body as symbolic embodiment.
She believes that the body holds our unconscious memories and that our movements can serve as a tool for accessing them. By becoming aware of these memories and listening to our movements, we could potentially break free from their negative influences and gain insight into our own behaviours, potentially helping prevent or fight disease.
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07 HARVEST OF KINETIC MEMORY
YEAR: 2021
LOCATION: FOREST IN BEST, Design Academy
Eindhoven
PARTICIPANTS:
Celine Castagnet
Klara Branting Paulsell
Colline Toutain
Leo Reynier Prat
Clemens Tomlow
Marianne Guermonprez
Lola Gonzalez
Camila d’Etutt d’Assay
Janneke Schreuder
Eliska Janeckova
Eros Risiglione
Camille Pelissou
Ori Orisun Merhav
Nadine Rauterberg
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BRINGING BODY MEMORY AWARENESS TO A BULDING COMMUNITY
Withing the frame of a collective project of building a village from scartch, the research started from those questions:
How do our bodies will remember this collective experience?
How can this memory help to build body knowledge for the future?
My body is my unconscious memory, the one that I can't control. I can't shape the way my body experienced something, but the way my body experienced things shapes me.
In this village, I wanted to bring back to the daily life, the awareness towards our body movement and the ones surrounding us, but more specifically to our body memory.
I started to observe people working at the village, looking at their postures, their body movements, the repetitions in the actions, the motion between a point to another... And I quickly realised that my observations were in fact a communal memory of this village through body movements. I was harvesting kinetic memory to build body knowledge.
Through those workshops that I hosted, we built another way of communicating. We all reflected on what it means to build and live inside this village through our body motion and self-expression. Without the tools, without the environment, without nothing but our body we can now express through our movement and postures, the experience, and we can also teach it to someone who will then physically be prepared to certain actions and body motions.
What would happen if we unlearned to learn with our mind first but with our body movement and expression? How can we build body knowledge for the future?
Even if the project ended and was a collective ephemeral experience, our bodies, they will never forget and had saved in every moment, an infinite sensory and bodily impressions which were not conscious but will act on us.