September 5, 2025Choreographic Practices

Splenic thinking: A speculative provocation in performance and practice

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Splenic thinking emphasizes the importance of attending to overlooked and melancholic elements in artistic practice.
It reinterprets the spleen as both an anatomical and conceptual instrument in understanding performance philosophy.
Historical and cultural perspectives, along with embodied workshops, inform the development of splenic thinking as a methodology.
This approach encourages artists to engage in different forms of expression, highlighting the metabolic nature of knowledge production.

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This article examines splenic thinking’s impact on performance and choreographic practices, suggesting it invites new ways of understanding ambiguity.

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Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c23a2cb210217d6477ff0e https://doi.org/10.1386/chor_00089_1

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This article examines splenic thinking’s impact on performance and choreographic practices, suggesting it invites new ways of understanding ambiguity.

Splenic thinking: A speculative provocation in performance and practice

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Splenic thinking: A speculative provocation in performance and practice

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