Embodied Emotional Resilience Blobichi
Embodied Emotional Resilience Blobichi, 2020
Workshop
Pioneer Works
In a techno-capitalist world that quantifies nature and automates our inner lives, Embodied Emotional Resilience is a workshop that asks: How do machines read our emotions—and how do emotions actually feel in our bodies? Led by Surabhi Saraf and Laura Hyunjhee Kim, this offering explores the body’s capacity for resistance and repair through movement, metaphor, and collective reflection.
Using the blob as both a conceptual lens and somatic tool, participants are guided through choreographed explorations to access what we call blobby emotivity—an embodied, non-linear experience of emotion that resists being flattened by platforms and metrics.
As part of the workshop, we developed a 20-minute movement meditation called Blobichi—inspired by Tai Chi but attuned to the techno-emoto-sphere. Through holistic gestures that reimagine digital actions like tap, scroll, and like, Blobichi expands our motor vocabulary for expressing emotion and opens space for new forms of embodied presence, beyond the screen’s reach.