Elizabeth Kirk-Channing
About
I am a Somatic-Performative Artist, Writer, Poet, Dancer & Witch.
I embrace this opportunity to share three poems, and some music with you.
My research is centred around the language, communication and perception of bodyful wisdom. I have always been fascinated by a desire to verbalise the non-verbal, such as sensation, emotion and intuition as voices of intelligence. My present written work is a bringing together of all my knowledge, experience and wisdom from various practices. I am a Facilitator of Cranio-Sacral Therapy and Integration; Bodywork, Breathwork and Movement. Previously I have always kept my therapeutic facilitation and performance artistry as distinctly separate from one another. My present work is embracing all of myself as a woman of many parts that all nourish each other.
I am particularly passionate about verbalisation in the context of Embodied Healing Arts, with the intention of creating a language within which we can communicate holistically. I have created my own map of embodied understanding through the perception of movement, which I share with my clients and through performance craft. It is this paradigm which I am sharing through my written work, I am currently in the process of writing a book, offering a holistic model exploring the interconnected wisdom of the body, mind, heart, spirit and soul.
My writing is greatly intertwined with the research I embody alongside my long-term performance partner Kirsty Chaplin. Kirsty and I create work together under the name of Kaira, a transdisciplinary performative duo.
Within my time at Royal College of Art I collaborated with Kirsty to create an audio piece entitled Nearly Home; a one-take live recording, semi-improvising around an original poem and the sound of Harp. The poem is present in the form of a soundscape; not every line of the poem is verbalized, the harp sound makes the poem complete sonically by embodying the words unspoken. The poem in its complete written form, How Do I Talk About Home?, is shared to the left.
Voice & Poetry: Elizabeth Kirk-Channing
Harp: Kirsty Chaplin
Sound Technician: Joe Hirst
Profile Picture Photography: Lily Lytton
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