Vibrating from Within: Towards a transdisciplinary artist / Hui Chen (2020)

Vibrating from Within: Towards a transdisciplinary artist is a creative practice that explores the embodiment of the inner vibration to create a vibrational field in a performative context. Vibration is the first movement pattern in Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s Basic Neurocelluar patterns. According to Cohen, vibration, as the basic phenomena of being, underlies all the patterns and informs the way we exist, express ourselves and interact with the world around us.

Using Robin Nelson’s methodology of Practice as Research, this project, with its documented recordings, mark-making and writings, followed on practitioners who utilised somatic practices in their arts and developed its own expressions for the inner vibrations through external stillness, cellular breathing, inner body dialogue with organs, inner witness and mark-making. It also explored the possibility of working with other performers and constructing a performative event in the field of vibrating.

It attempts to create a transdisciplinary ground where different disciplines of arts can find a soil to grow upon and in turn may change the outcome and expression style of this practice. The deeper understanding and development of a non-judgemental mind towards every vibrating experience for the practitioners/performers may create a vibrational field in which different art and artists could interact freely with each other.