Porous Embodiment and Poetic Knowledge: An Emergent Dialogue Between a Puppetry Artist and a Neuroscientist

This article illustrates a collaboration-in-formation between a performing artist and a neuroscientist. The authors focus on the early clarification of cross-disciplinary language and their recognition of the frameworks, overlaps, and divergences between how puppetry animation and neuroscience approach body, breath, imagination, disability, embodiment, consciousness, and research itself. The authors briefly discuss the creative process in puppetry performance and ask questions about what normative assumptions exist in neuroscience and how they interface with the authors’ perspectives as researcher-practitioners.

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Author Leonard Edward White Neurology, General & Community Neurology