Our Bodies Know More Than We Do
With SunJeong Hwang - Psʌnía duo
Our Bodies Know More Than We Do is a new collaboration between Pía Baltazar and Sunjeong Hwang, as Psʌnía.
In this work, we explore how new forms of connections between us can be created by putting our bodies’ internal and external movements and rhythms in resonance through a variety of technological transduction apparatuses.
For this, we propose a performance based on a gestural interface to make both our bodies interact with sonic and (video-based) light processes and materials, spaces, and textures, through the mediation of custom-made data mapping algorithms.
This metabolic instrument and the resulting performance are based on the concept of resonant transduction (see below).
For us, this is what making music together means, and we want to investigate this further in new ways through this metabolic instrument, interfacing with the soma: the living body, to transduce its inner and outer flows, tuning presence, rhythm, and awareness into sensory materials. Through this, we want to investigate the following questions:
How can we put our inner organic, corporal, and bodily agencies in play and in resonance with each other and with the bodies of the audience?
How can we use that to foster our embodied cognition in the performative act?
Because, ultimately, our bodies know more than we do.
Work Development
Our Bodies Know More Than We Do is a new collaboration between Pía Baltazar and Sunjeong Hwang, as Psʌnía, developed during a residency at WeSA Jeju space in November 2025. This residency is documented in the video below.
The first version of the work developed during this residency was presented in DaeJeon on November 16, 2025, and has been documented in the video above.
The work will be finalized in the summer of 2026, increasing its duration, refining its sonic and visual composition, notably by adding videoprojection on the performers’ bodies.
Philosophical Framework
Our approach for this work is based on the concept of transductive resonance.
Transduction is the technological process that transforms one type of energy into another (like a loudspeaker converting electrical fluctuations into acoustic waves). The philosopher Gilbert Simondon defines it further as the operation that makes possible the processes of individuation and differentiation, or in other words, the production of new realities in all dimensions (physical, biological, psychological, social).
Harmut Rosa, another philosopher, states that resonance could be the solution to our accelerationist society and the best way to bring humanity (and more generally life and liveliness) back to the center of our concerns. He explores how different activities can develop this resonance between bodies and beings. Art, and in particular performance, is one of them.
This philosophical framework has been leading our research and composition in this work.