Avec le chapitre “Architectural Rehearsal: Unearthing Embodied Architectural Precedents”, Aurélie contribue au livre “(Un)Common Precedents in Architectural Design” édité par Federica Goffi, Isabel Potworowski et Kristin Washco. L’ouvrage répond à un besoin critique de réexaminer les précédents architecturaux afin de révéler les intentions et préconçus qui sous-tendent le fonctionnement de l’imagination architecturale dominante, et de mettre en avant les contextes sociopolitiques qui résistent à la canonisation des précédents par le biais d’approches expérientielles et transdisciplinaires. Aurélie se penche plus spécifiquement sur les manières dont la danse et la chorégraphie peuvent permettre de revisiter des situations dans lesquelles les corps, les histoires, les lieux et les architectures entretiennent des relations appauvries, cette démarche mobilisant dès lors des “précédents architecturaux incarnés”.
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⇒ In the Western tradition, architectural precedents remain limited to buildings. Consequently, the plurality of ways of making worlds are rendered silent. Reckoning with
embodied knowledge as an architectural precedent,
this chapter reexamines the operations that architectural knowledge production legitimizes. Drawing on Israeli-born artist, curator, and historian Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, the chapter addresses this critical process as an ‘architecturalrehearsal’ that involves thinking with bodies, practices, and forms of knowledgethat affirm a pluralityof spatialities and worlds. It outlines these embodiedpractices and gestures as what Spanish architect and scholar Lucía Jalón Oyarzun calls
minor architectures,
or uncommon precedents for contemporary architecture. Dance and choreography can contribute to the affirmation and transmission of
minor gesture[s],
as conceptualized by Canadian philosopher Erin Manning, to address situations in which bodies, histories, grounds, and architecturesmaintain depleted relationships that reproduce violence and deny possibilities. The case of the Judson Dance Theater and contemporary practicesthat refer to it are discussed from this perspective. The chapter reveals that an inquiry into dance practicesand the minorembodied knowledge they engage can be a veritable methodology for researching embodied architectural knowledgeand historiesand mobilizing them as
uncommon precedents.