Jérémy Damian is an anthropologist, doctor in sociology from the University of Grenoble, EMC2-LSG.

 

His research leads him to map, in the fringes of our modern naturalism, collective practices of cultivating aberrant sensorialities. Since his doctoral thesis (Intériorités / Sensations / Consciences – les experimentations somatique du Contact Improvisation et du Body-Mind Centering, 2012), his works have been very noticed in the field of live art and somatic practices. They focus in particular on the ecology of the practices of Contact-Improvisation, Body-Mind Centering and Lisa Nelson's Tuning Scores.

 

While directing the review Corps-Objet-Image (TJP, National Dramatic Center of Alsace) between 2016 and 2020 (following Alice Godfroy) he proposed the concept ofCosmodelia, forged by comparison with that ofpsychedelia (“bringing up the spirit”) to indicate the need to make new cosmologies appear, by means of speculative fabulations and the artistic or social techniques they call for. His current ethnographic investigations on the forms and representations of hyper-sensitivity – or hyper-sensoriality, are of great importance in this project: they deploy a number of theoretical means relevant to our situated studies.