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an art of connections, a poetics of the swerve
a new essay & reading by L. Martina Young, Ph.D. |
Arabesque
Saturday, October 11, 2025 | 2pm
with Live Music by bassist Julie Machado of the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra
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In a timely response to the question posed by poet and Humanities scholar Joan Retallack, “How can one frame a poetics of the swerve, a constructive preoccupation with what are unpredictable forms of change?”— artist-scholar L. Martina Young takes a deep dive into the ‘arabesque aesthetic’ with her new essay, “Arabesque | an art of connections, a poetics of the swerve,” weaving Persian aesthetics, somatic ways of knowing, Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, David Bohm’s physics, and memoir to expound on the beauty and wisdom of ‘unity'—a critical ethos for our 21st century socio-cultural times.
No Late Seating |
Photography by Grant Wesley
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A poetic body is expressive by nature, an integrated
relational intelligence — transparent, porous — yielding insights about being human throughout the lifespan that are as specific and particular as they are universal. A poetic body practice is a disciplined realignment of our physical, psychological, biological, ethical, aesthetic, and spiritual modes of being for living responsively and meaningfully in the world. L. Martina Young, Ph.D. Artist Somatic Pilates Educator Expressive Dance/Movement Facilitator |
