Stella Geppert

CONNECTIVITIES

An Investigation of Embodied Communication and Its Networks

Stella Geppert (b. Lower Saxony, 1967; lives and works in Berlin) is a sculptor and performer whose experimental work draws on choreography, statuary, body extensions, and graphic notations. Her art is centered around an exploration of the body as a medium and material for communicative processes, the global repercussions of simple actions, energetic physical states, and transgenerational transmissions of behaviors.

The publication CONNECTIVITIES. Handbook for Embodied Communication is the first to offer comprehensive insight into Stella Geppert’s approach. Essays by contributors with expertise in dance studies (Gabriele Brandstetter), immunology (Michael Meyer-Hermann), and art studies and body techniques (Joana P. R. Neves, Daniela von Damaros) shed light on the engagement with Geppert’s conceptual and collective practices. CONNECTIVITIES charts the oeuvre’s multidimensional networking of invisible modes of communication such as the metabolic processes of breathing and organs, language-based movements of the head, cellular communication, and gestures of the collective blighting of landscapes.