This presentation examines iterative transposition as a documentary method for mediating sensory difference without reducing lived experience to explanation, diagnosis, or clinical evidence. Developed within a doctoral research-creation project that seeks to transpose sensory processing sensitivity into an experimental documentary essay, it asks how distinct sensory thresholds might become shareable and resonate through audiovisual form. Situated at the intersection of embodied and enactive cognitive science, phenomenology, biofeedback art, and experimental documentary practice, the project understands transposition as an aesthetico-epistemic operator rather than a model of direct translation (Schwab, 2018). Methodologically, it adopts a flexible, non-linear form of methodological bricolage structured through heuristic cycles (Moustakas, 1990). Situated configurations bring physiological signals, including EEG and heart-rate variability, into contingent correspondence with parameters of light, colour, sound, rhythm, and duration. These relations are not treated as universal or transferable equivalences, but as operations tethered to embodied subjectivity, context, and perceptual history—closer to phenomenological attunement than to translational proof (Sobchack, 1992, 2004). Biometric traces therefore function less as representational evidence than as sensorial materialities capable of modulating cinematic form and fostering multisensory resonance (Marks, 2000, 2002). Research materials include annotated edits, fieldnotes, micro-phenomenological accounts, and iterative test screenings tracing emergent perceptual participation and felt intensities. The presentation argues that documentary knowledge emerges through repeated attempts at transposition, constructing relational conditions through which sensory difference may be encountered, felt, and ethically negotiated.

Authors:
Maxime Michaud, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

About the Presenter(s)
Maxime Michaud is a PhD candidate in Communication, transdisciplinary artist and lecturer at UQAM. His work explores embodied cognition, phenomenology, and documentary cinema through a research-creation project on sensory processing sensitivity.

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