MIRROR ECHO TILT
http://cargocollective.com/mirrorechotilt
Artist / Practitioners:
Melanie Crean
Shaun Leonardo
- 16 – 24 yr olds who’ve been arrested. A 4 week cycle, which after completion, the judgement is erased
- PTSD origins – when a physical response is separated from language cognition
- Both lofty and practical responses
- PROTECTION MECHANISM:
- – It’s easier to describe a traumatic event if you picture yourself removed from the event. This leaves out your own subjectivity….and distances you from your own emotion.
- NB: For a storyteller (the person sharing a narrative) it’s often more important /potent for a truth to be played out in front of themselves by another.
- When you portray something through the LISTENER the STORYTELLER often learns something new EMOTIONALLY
- EMBODIMENT and TRAUMA
- PRESENCE and ABSTRACTION
- Patterns of social trauma
- Methods:
- SILENT MINIMAL GESTURE = embodiment
- CONCRETE UNIVERSAL = the emotional for, or centre, of the narrative
- PHYSICAL NARRATIVE = speech isn’t always necessary. Physical re-embodiment or patterning
- EXTERNALISATION = to take it beyond yourself, your body. The generosity of embodiment; to take care on a human level
- Memory forensics
- Crowdsourcing memory
