“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness.” ― Philip K. Dick
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” ― Aldous Huxley
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.” ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats
“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
Perception
“The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.” ― Stefan Molyneux
“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.” ― Robin S. Sharma
“In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it” ― Pedro Calderón de la Barca
‘‘… that performance practices become privileged means to investigate processes where history and body create unsuspected sensorial-perceptual realms, alternative modes for life to be lived. To carry out the task of analysing ‘the senses in performance’ is also to carry out bi-political investigations of the many critical thresholds where to corporeal meets the social, the somatic meets the historical, the cultural meets the biological, and imagination meets the flesh.’’ - Senses in Performance Sally Banes, Andre Lepecki
Perceiving through senses and perceiving through emotions
“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.” ― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays
“Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . ” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
I ran Art workshops with the children to experiment and let them experience the process of performance design. The workshops included; creating the background story for each character, developing his appearance using as inspiration the images from his background, and making props and costume models for the story.
I experimented with many different techniues, as it was my first time in the role of an art teacher, and my approach towards the kids changed drastically as the project went on.
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My first aim was to build communicational bridges between those who were deaf and those that could hear, through artistic tasks and activities.
My second aim was to provide the deaf children with the chance to experiment and express themselves through art making.
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For feedback and verification of my process go to page 'Collaboration and my role' and open the interview documents on William Carslake musician and the Titilola Kareem teacher, where they review my process.
Human senses
“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise.” ― Shannon L. Alder
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"The formation of attention is culture.’ ..Captures the privileged relationship that any performance practice has with the manufacture of perceptive-sensorial techniques as culture-making techniques. The different ways through which performance practices create and form a plethora of modes of attention reveal precisely those endless exchanges criss-crossing the body and linking its sensorium to environment, genealogy, soma, culture and performance practices.’’ - Matthew Goulish
"If perception were nothing better than the passive reception of information, one would expect the mind would not be disturbed by being left without such input for a while and might indeed welcome the response. The experiments on sensory deprivation have shown, however, that this is not so. When the visual, auditory, tactile and kinaesthetic senses are reduced to un-patterned stimulation – nothing but diffuse light for the eyes and a steady buzz for the ears – the entire mental functioning of the person is upset…’’ - Senses in Performance Sally Banes, Andre Lepecki
Human emotions
“Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.” ― Shannon L. Alder
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“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” ― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
“The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?" "Wouldn't I know which one I was?" "Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.” ― Derek Landy, Death Bringer
“...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.” ― Rabih Alameddine, The Hakawati
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“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.” ― Dorothea Lange
“Getting rid of a truth makes us wiser than getting hold of a delusion” ― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption
Focused research on each project
Human Senses - "Music is special"
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Bicât, T. (2012). Costume and design for devised and physical theatre. Ramsbury: Crowood.
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Buccola, R. (2010). A midsummer night's dream. London: Continuum.
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Conner, D., Espinosa, R. and Shakespeare, W. (2009). William Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream. Edina, Minn.: Magic Wagon.
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Haggerty, L. (2006). ADJUSTING THE MARGINS: BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN DEAF AND HEARING CULTURES THROUGH PERFORMANCE ARTS. Ph.D. Antioch University. p.36
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Napier, J. (2002). The D/deaf-H/hearing debate. In Sign Language Studies 2 (2), 141-149.
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Parasnis, I. ed. (1996). Cultural and language diversity and the Deaf experience.Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge Univ. Press.
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Reagan, T. (2002). Toward an “Archaeology of Deafness”: Etic and emic constructions of identity in conflict. In Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, I (1), 41-66.
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Reeve, S., Bloom, K. and Galanter, M. (2014). Embodied Lives. Devon: Triarchy Press.
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Shield, A. (n.d.). Ideological Conflict at Group Boundaries:The Hearing Children of Deaf Adults. 1st ed. [ebook] Austin: The University of Texas. Available at:
http://www.academia.edu/383377/Ideological_Conflict_at_Group_Boundaries_The_Hearing_Childr
en_of_Deaf_Adults [Accessed 5 Feb. 2016].
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Your Guide to Putting on an Assisted Performance. (2014). 2nd ed. [ebook] London: Access London Theatre, Society of London Theatre, UK Theatre, pp.pages 10-12.
Available at:http://www.familyarts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ALT-Guide-to-Putting-on-an-Assisted-Performance-2.pdf [Accessed 3 Feb. 2016].
Human emotions - "What do you see?"
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Malchiodi, C. (2003). Handbook of art therapy. New York: Guilford Press. (p. 107)
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Dancing with the Unconscious: The Art of Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalysis of Art (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series)
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Psychoanalysis and Art: The Artistic Representation of the Parent/Child Relationship
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Art and Psychoanalysis, Laurie Schneider Adams
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​Unlocking the Mysteries of The Artistic Mind