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Cyber Participants |
The Olimpias Performances Research Projects
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| Welcome to the Cyber Participants section of The Anarcha Project. Here are the daily prompts that were used for the April Symposium. Final Cyber Gift: Day Four The Anarcha Symposium is over – or rather, the symposium has brought us together, allowed us to collaborate, and offered some ongoing nourishment for the social justice dialogues we want to participate in, for growing the kind of engagements we want to see in the academy and beyond, for developing new methods in our arts and research practice. The strand sharings yesterday were deeply moving, and showed the intensity with which people make the Anarcha stories their own and interweave voices, bodies and memories. We experienced collaboration as a tool to model respectful communication, and the power of the arts to touch us. We all need time to think about and process what’s been going on. So for today’s Cyber gift, take ten minutes. Become still, and breathe, and find your center. Feel yourself firmly sitting, standing, planted down, in whatever position you are in. Breathe. What enables you to be, where you are, as you think, write, move, sing? What holds you, supports you, gives you leverage, opposition, what frames you? For ten minutes, become sure in your stance in the world, in your place, embedded in wider forces. Now respond: write, photograph, or engage in other practices, and share it with us. Cyber Gifts: Day Three Good morning. Yesterday, we had a rich and full day at the symposium, introducing ourselves, beginning to move together, witnessing the Anarcha Project Performative Lecture, eating together, seeing lovingly created posters and mingling with the wider university and local community, laughing at the crip cabaret. In the evening, Lynn Manning presented his new show-in-progress, Quiet As It’s Kept, and our gift to you today comes from the experience of watching that show. Later today, I will share some of your generous gift with the symposium participants in our plenary session. Thank you once more for your generosity, and your company on this journey. This morning, take ten minutes to think about the words ‘brother’ and/or ‘sister’. What do these words mean to you, personally? How do their meanings take shape in space, what places and sensations are connected to them? Write (or whatever your practice) for ten minutes, prose, poetry, dialogue, dance, song, images, whatever flows, and share what you wrote or created with us! Cyber Gifts: Day Two This morning, take ten minutes to work with shadows. Find your own body’s shadow. Respond to it, to the joyful and hard secrets it holds, to its evasive and elegant movement, to its limits and its dissolves. Write (or whatever your practice) for ten minutes, prose, poetry, dialogue, dance, song, whatever flows, and share what you wrote or created with us! Cyber Gifts: Day One Dear Participants, Thank you for going on this journey with us. As the symposium people are converging on Ann Arbor, here is our first gift for you. Whenever we work on Anarcha, we have felt the need to think of places of healing, rescue, of being well, paying attention to small things, nourishing and being nourished: to move from the shack to the garden. In the morning, look at a garden – your garden, the park you are passing on the way to work, a public square, or a garden you can only see in your mind’s eye. Tell us something about that garden, about the growth you see in it, about spring coming, about life returning. Look at a plant – what does it smell, taste, feel, look and sound like? Write (or whatever your practice) for ten minutes, prose, poetry, dialogue, dance, song, whatever flows, and share what you wrote or created with us! |