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DESCRIPTION:The body is rarely experienced as a single moment in time. Acro
 ss illness\, trauma\, reproductive loss and recovery\, embodied experience
 s may persist\, be interrupted\, or be reconfigured rather than simply rep
 laced by what comes next. This presentation introduces the Overlay Body Ma
 pping Method\, a methodological development in arts-based qualitative rese
 arch designed to explore relationships between embodied states across time
 .\nThe method was developed through a cross-cultural qualitative study of 
 women’s embodied experiences of pregnancy and miscarriage. Eight women f
 rom India and seven from Australia took part in two body-mapping sessions 
 alongside interviews. The women first chose a bodily posture and position 
 to be mapped that they saw as representing their experience of pregnancy. 
 Then\, on the same body map\, the women chose a second bodily posture and 
 position from which their experience of  miscarriage was mapped. The women
  were given the agency to determine how their miscarriage body related spa
 tially to their first mapping of their pregnant body. As a result\, the co
 nfigurations of the women’s maps were characterised by adjacency\, separ
 ation\, fusion and partial overlap. Body mapping and interviewing occurred
  concurrently\, allowing visual construction and verbal narration to devel
 op dialogically. The process of body mapping and interviewing was video-re
 corded to retain the embodied process of creating and positioning the maps
 \, rather than relying solely on the completed maps as static visual artef
 acts.\nThe presentation demonstrates how overlay body mapping moves beyond
  a simple comparison of the bodily experience of miscarriage as a “befor
 e” and “after” event. By retaining multiple embodied states within a
  shared visual field\, the overlay method makes the visible the spatial an
 d temporal relationship between and across embodied states. Posture\, prox
 imity\, distance and overlap become analytically meaningful when interpret
 ed alongside participants’ accounts.\nAlthough developed within miscarri
 age research\, Overlay Body Mapping offers broader methodological possibil
 ities for research concerned with bodily transition\, illness trajectories
 \, trauma\, recovery and other experiences in which previous embodied stat
 es are not simply left behind but remain present in changing ways.
DTSTAMP:20261013T080041Z
LOCATION:Holme Room
SUMMARY:Beside\, over\, and apart: Overlay body mapping as a method for tra
 cing embodied change. - Aastha Ahuja
URL:https://conferences.acspri.org.au/2026/talk/BLP89J/
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