Inter-Embodied Resonance: A Practice-as-Research Experiment Through Touch

This article invites readers-viewers to witness a Practice-as-Research experiment where resonance is explored as an inter-embodied practice through touch. Conducted by artist-researcher Christina Kapadocha at East 15 Acting School, London (August 2025), the work was filmed for the purposes of this exposition and extends her contribution to the SAR 2025 Conference on Resonance. The materials combine videos, images, guiding notes, and time markers to situate the practice within a multimodal framework. Philosophically, the experiment approaches inter-embodiment as a heightened somatic awareness that sustains individual agency while enabling connection with others. The work builds on Kapadocha’s conference piece by introducing a partner to her principles of self-directed touch, a haptic-sound installation, and theoretical ideas on resonance by Anita Chari and Hartmut Rosa. The investigation, guided by the open question “what can resonance be?”, unfolds in two main parts followed by a reflective sequence. Part 1 establishes the project’s somatic methodology through “anchors” of inter-embodied contact: source, points, pressure, movement, and relation to space and others. These are explored in interplay with breathing, voicing, and speaking. Part 2 integrates emergent experiential insights with theory, using a haptic-sound prototype to intertwine embodied practice with voice recordings of Chari and Rosa. Extending towards collective dimensions, the article proposes resonance not as a fixed state but as a dynamic, transformative practice of listening, answering, and co-existing with the “not yet”. The multimodal materials invite reflection on how somatic modes of touch could contribute to collective ways of relating differently in both artistic and sociopolitical contexts.