EMBODIMENT OF EXCLUSION
workshop
2022
The workshop was commissioned by Disruption Network Lab to be presented during "Madness: fighting for justice in Mental health". The conference investigated systems of mental health care and support, focusing on prevailing discourses and practices, biases and inequality. A part of the Sentire project — Olga Kozmanidze and Marcello Lussana — contributed to the conference program by bringing a workshop "Embodiment of exclusion" that was specifically created to further deepen the discussion and experience around the conference’s topic.
Together with the workshop participants, we identified bodily gestures and behaviour, associated with social exclusion. Participants were invited to address their personal experiences and share their stories, initially in the form of sketches or writing. Next, they used these stories as scores to be enacted through movement improvisation and while using the Sentire during the social interaction. Together we explored how the Sentire sound environments affect our perception of a specific situation or social behaviour.
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
ph: Francesco Mancori
