Running as Knowledge in Motion

This project, Lines, Limits, and Liminality: Running as Knowledge in Motion, explores the different ways in which running can facilitate alternative ways of knowing and being in the world. As such, it challenges the performative and disembodied conception of running that has proliferated in recent decades as commodified exercise. Following Rickey Gates understanding of ‘running as movement through space’, this project seeks to emphasise both the spaciousness of accelerated and body-based movement as well as the physical trajectories of running that graft and transcend both lines and limits. As a primarily somatic project, running is regarded as a form of liminality; always oscillating between stillness and motion, known and unknown, here and there.