Techniques for creating defined 'squares' or sections:
- Masking or LX Tape
- Bodies, us, invite extra ensemble performers, audience
- Flats
- Curtains/drapes
How do people navigate around the space?
- Map
- Directions on the floor/signs
- Paper along the floor, can leave comments, feedback, feelings
Date
- Coffee shop or restaurant
- Get a server/use whoever is spare at the time
- Crowd noise/Café music
- Coffee cups, coffee, biscuits or wine and bread/snacks
- Theory needs more developing
Cyberspace
- Duality
- Is language being compromised?
- Man reduced to machine, the body as a tool used to just press the keys on a keyboard, loss of physical presence in online communication. Even with webcam or skype its mediated form of the individual. Not face to face but face to facebook.
- MSN with a script, talking to audience member
- Lost mind searching for its body
- Cosy living room, the life behind the story, home, how the home represents/is an extension of your bodily identity
- What is your social role in cyber space?
- Numbers, quantities, number of people, number of friends, photos
- MSN, Facebook, Twitter, Chat Roulette (!)
- Does emotion come from the body or from the mind?
- Virtue of the body, importance of the body to the mind and vice versa
Descartes
- The loss of a bodily presence or identity
- Thinking thing exists apart from body
- Mind & Body interact
- In cyberspace, the viewer defines the other by what they read or hear, no other presence. The separation of the body from the mind. When we
Is there not a God, or whatever I may call him, who puts into me the thoughts I am now having? But why do I think this, since I myself may perhaps be the author of these thoughts? In that case am not I, at least, something? But I have just said that I have no senses and no body. This is the sticking point: what follows from this? Am I not so bound up with a body and with senses that i cannot exist without them?
By a body I understand whatever has a determinable shape and a definable location and can occupy a space in such a way as to exclude any other body; it can be perceived by touch, sight, hearing, taste or smell, and can be moved in various ways, not by itself but by whatever else comes into contact with it
...thought; this alone is inseparable from me, I am, I exist - that is certain. But for how long? For as long as I am thinking. For it could be that were I totally to cease from thinking, I should totally cease to exist...I am a mind, or intelligence, or intellect, or reason...a thinking thing.
Rene Descartes
The picture, from Descartes' Essai sur l'homme, illustrates his conception of the human as a machine presided over by an immaterial soul. One needs to appreciate that each generation imagines humans in the image its latest technology, so that just as we imagine the human brain to be a computer, so Descartes imagined the human body to be a pneumatic automaton, inspired by the inventive designs in of Salomon de Caus whose Les Raisons des Forces Mouvantes, published in 1615, was studied intensely by Descartes. He thought that the nerves were pipes that conducted control fluids to the various muscles, and that the ventricles of the brain were the reservoirs for these fluids. It was thus natural to see the pineal gland (the almond-shaped object in the picture), which hangs down into the the third ventricle, as the control valve of the whole system, and hence the place where the action of the soul could have most effect. This mechanisation of the body represents the final loss of any sacredness of matter
Language
- The vocals and the body
- Voice & identity
- Sign language
- Barriers of language
- Development of language- World of language
- Divided into 2
- Jack & Jessie to write a speech each
- Jack: about different languages, cultural impact of languages, barriers, confusion, disrespect or misunderstanding
- Jessie: rhythm, fundamentals of language, mechanics, sound, origins
- Interaction between each other - Do not speak, do not mouth etc
- Events within Language (Version 1)
1. Sit them down
2. Press play
3. Listen to speeches
4. Ends up with them standing on the table and shouting their name
5. Raise/move the screen
6. Interaction7. Told or taken to join the rest of the audience in the ending
This article was of particular inspiration to Jack's speech
Language, Identity and the Ownership of English
Under what conditions do language learners speak? How can we encourage language learners to become more communicatively competent? How can we facilitate interaction between language learners and target language speakers?
Identity relates to desire-the desire for recognition, the desire for affiliation, and the desire for security and safety
Identity is not so much a map of experience-a set of fixed coordinates-as it is a guide with which ESL students negotiate their place in a new social order and, if need be, challenge it through the meaning-making activities they participate in.
Duff and Uchida examine the "inseparability" of language and culture; and Schecter and Bayley conceive of language as embodying in and of itself "acts of identity." Fourth, most of the authors note that identity construction must be understood with respect to larger social processes, marked by relations of power that can be either coercive or collaborative.I also researched some other articles looking at the origins and foundations of language...
All social animals communicate with each other, from bees and ants to whales and apes, but only humans have developed a language which is more than a set of prearranged signals.Our speech even differs in a physical way from the communication of other animals. It comes from a cortical speech centre which does not respond instinctively, but organises sound and meaning on a rational basis. This section of the brain is unique to humans.
Languages are linked to each other by shared words or sounds or grammatical constructions. The theory is that the members of each linguistic group have descended from one language, a common ancestor. In many cases that original language is judged by the experts to have been spoken in surprisingly recent times - as little as a few thousand years agoTexts & Links
- Descartes, Rene, Second Mediation: The nature of the human mind, and how it is better known than the body, 'Mediations', Trans. John Cottingham, Cambridge University Press, 1986
- Clarke, Chris, Spirit and Matter: the Death of a Dichotomy, http://www.greenspirit.org.uk/resources/spirit_and_matter.shtml
- Norton, Bonny, Language, Identity, and the Ownership of English, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 3, Language and Identity (Autumn, 1997), pp. 409-429, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3587831
- Gascoigne, Bamber, History of Language, History World, From 2001, ongoing, http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab13
- Sketches drawn and uploaded myself
