中研院歐美所學術演講 （2025/03/14）
講題：Thinking Bodies: Embodied Power Play in Capoeira Angola
主講人：Dafni Louzioti（Goldsmiths, University of London）
與談人：林映彤（陽明交通大學心智哲學研究所）、楊雁舒（政治大學廣播電視學系）
主持人：陳湘韻 (中央研究院歐美研究所)
日期：2025/03/14（五）14:00
地點：中研院歐美所研究大樓 1 樓會議室
講者簡介:
Dafni Louzioti is an interdisciplinary performance and martial artist with training in dance, theatre, martial arts, and visual arts. She holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance, focusing on Capoeira Angola, participatory performance and power, and a Master of Arts in Performance Making from Goldsmiths, and a Bachelor of Fine Art from Middlesex University. Originally from Greece, she has worked internationally as a performer, teacher, and academic. Her artistic practice combines postmodern dance, Capoeira Angola, and physical theatre, while her teaching is focused on supporting creativity and skill in improvisation, critical thinking in arts practices, composition and acrobatics for dance.
演講大綱:
The focal point of this lecture is on embodied knowledge, using Capoeira Angola as a case study. My position is that embodied knowledge can be understood as a fundamental and powerful means of knowing, which exists alongside logocentric and theoretical knowledge. An introduction to what embodied knowledge is will frame the lecture and will be followed by a brief description of the practice of Capoeira Angola, and how it is an embodied epistemology. One of the key points will be that through the practice of Capoeira Angola, people come to understand and exchange nuanced conceptions of power (and power relations) through physical and musical interaction. This has wider implications in terms of how we come to know things and extends more broadly to practice/action. The lecture will be drawing from a range of sources such as phenomenology, Lakoff and Johnson’s Philosophy in the Flesh, Foucault, Arendt, as well as Capoeira and Practice as Research (PaR) scholarship.
