What happens when a body begins to shimmer? When its edges flicker and rehearse new formations as its presence vibrates with the surroundings?
Camouflage Consciousness is conceived as two books merged into one volume: Murat Adash’s extensive research project Camouflage, Correspondence, and the Choreography of Alterity, and a catalogue of his Correspondance work series. The publication features a double cover: the outer cover is hot-stamped with a shimmering, ever-changing foil, while the inner cover is camouflaged within it. They are bound together using the Otastar technique.
Camouflage Consciousness moves from ayahuasca-inflected cosmologies to performative experiments in spectral presence so as to reconfigure the edges between bodies, environments, and ways of knowing. Merging choreographic thinking, philosophical reflection, and somatic practice, this publication unfolds as two intertwining parts: a written manuscript and a visual-textual constellation of choreographic works. (...) For artists, scholars, dancers, and readers engaged in performance, artistic research, multispecies studies, and the politics of perception, Camouflage Consciousness offers a lexicon for attuning to difference and moving with alterity within a space of shifting proximities, porous thresholds, and altered modes of relation.