Discover the Between Body Space
The MorphoTransverse Method (MTM) was established by co-creators Annie Kielman and Joshua Patterson as a means of exploring cult as a belief system both inclusive and secretive. They built MTM from a collaborative examination of ritual and how it can manifest as the repetition of identical steps that become hierarchies within a belief’s structure. Their unique backgrounds collided to unearth a place where ritualized athletic movement could become spiritual exertions that correct muscles imbalances and trauma cycles.
About the Artists
Annie’s experience as a NASM certified athletic trainer led her to question how the rules of our physical world and bodies design our gestures, and how those gestures can serve as anchors in a digital space. She focuses on “between- spaces” where the poetics of undefined forms can be found in the slippages between fixed languages. For Annie, the attempts at kinetic chain alignment can be simplified to a physiological space of obsessive repetitive act. Josh has spent his life extensively researching cultic and esoteric history. His parafictional shamanic practice embraces the liminal space between the sincere and insincere, the true believer and the cynic, science and pseudo-science, irony and love; and places the viewer in this space: a space of unknowing.
While the MorphoTransverse Method continues to evolve in many directions, it primarily manifests as “Trial Experience” events that include a movement-based performance where viewers are given instructional literature and are guided in both physical and cognitive amoral exercises. The MTM model begins with stabilization. In this initial phase, you are instructed to correct all imbalances and halt physic injury cycles on a physical and emotional level. By healing first, you can cultivate a more powerful strength.