Collaborative Painting and Embodiment

“The process of embodiment through somatic practices.”

Lavinia Cascone, Rowan Hull and Chris Redgate.

It is well known, and a tool used in somatic and therapeutic settings, that physiology responds to a mental image in the same way it responds to reality.

In other words, our bodies activate the same physiological processes to an image weather this is re-created in the mind or it is happening in our reality.

During improvised pieces, the artists engage in a practice of instant composition, where they respond to the context – different medium involved, space, audience and other artist at work – by embodying the mental images stimulated by it arising within themselves. 

These images are embodied and are expressed via sounds, colours, shapes and movements.

The practice is based on individual and collective unconscious and on how these images created, layer and juxtapose in space and time, creating a dream like narration which communicates directly to the audience, who then become recipient of the work created, as well as becoming a stimulus for itself.

Somatic Practices, supporting the artists’ ability to remain present and open to the embodiment process, are the base techniques for this work, which express the chaotic life of our unconscious minds, giving the audience a representation of all the dynamics and forces in place in our psyche, binding our reality but usually hidden and unspoken.

Lavinia Cascone 2025.