Spenser Stroud

My work spans dance, choreography, and film-making while engaging in Neuroscience research. My ventures into art and science stem from my fascination with both fields and my desire to explore how working at the intersection of art and science can influence and advance both disciplines.

Title of Project

nod

Description of Project

How do we consider the transference of Kinesthetic Empathy, specifically within performative movement paradigms? Given the ubiquity of questions regarding empathetic formation, Nod will venture from an axis point of Cognitive Neuroscience, Dance Studies, and Science Studies; in an effort to reorient around Collective Kinesthesia, utilizing a renaissance approach.By employing this multimodal approach within the creation process of Nod, this film aims to transfigure kinesthetic empathy by way of embodied, reflexive, and intra-active self-evidence. Ultimately, this piece is an invitation to an intra-network of exposure and indiscernibility of the movement on the screen, for the viewer to catch onto our wavelength of kinesthetic empathy: a dynamism of social behavior that momentarily syncs concerned bodies into an inseparable exchange.

Areas of Academic Interest

Applied Neuroscience, Psychoanalysis, Dance Studies, Science Studies, Poetics