A theoretical activity complementing the practical methodologies developed at Graner, Fàbrica de Creació, sharing the main axes of Javier Martín’s methodological research, as the 2025 resident artist at Graner. This activity concludes a phase of his theoretical and practical research, during which the artist has collaborated throughout the year with various institutions, festivals, and cultural and social agents in Catalonia, with particular attention to the city of Barcelona.

Within this framework, in November he has conducted theoretical-practical sessions with BAU students, as well as therapists and staff from the Day Hospitals of Tarragona and Reus, deepening his research on somatic technologies in different bodies and contexts.

Dancing through diverse somatic technologies—often marginalized or subaltern—opens essential questions about the state of bodies today. What wisdom do their gestures conceal? What meditations do they offer us? What presences do they construct?

The aim is not to study in depth the various epistemological traditions nor to establish hierarchies among them, but to recognize their diversity and allow the knowledge each episteme conveys through kinesthetic sensitivity to coexist. In this way, alternative paths are opened to feel ourselves, recognize ourselves, and relate to others.

In this context, technology becomes a tool to develop and understand the animal we are.

Javier Martín combines choreographic and performative creation with writing, laboratories, and lectures. From a critical and epistemological perspective, he investigates movement arts and activates a somateca: a bodily and imaginary archive of diverse kinetic knowledge.

He composes movement textures, vibrating matter that allows him to intervene in processes of subjectivation and make them conscious. He is interested in understanding how inertia accumulates in our bodies. He argues that dance, as a technology of consciousness, is a way of thinking—and living—the animal we are.

Since his beginnings, he has created and presented over thirty works, including Beltenebros (2025), El punto impropio A/S/V (2023), Figuras del umbral (2021), Teorema (2020), SOMA (2019), and Método negro (2018). His work has been presented in Spain, France, Portugal, Russia, Ukraine, Mexico, Uruguay, Guatemala, Colombia, and Thailand. His choreographies have been supported by various public and private institutions and cultural centers.

Photo: Javier Martín