PART 1
EXPLORATION PERIOD: NOV 2023 - 15 DEC 2023
Focusing on listening to the recordings (alongside practising).
PART 2
EXPLORATION DATE: 15.12.2023
FOCUS/PRACTICE: Conversation-as-Material (I) as a shared practice. The focus of this conversation practice was the preceding period of exploration (November 2023 - 15 December).
STRUCTURE OF PRACTICE
Speaker is not visible (masks camera with tape), listener has back turned, active listening.
1. Speaking/listening: taking turns facing [5 mins each]
2. Speaking/listening: taking turns facing [10 mins each]
3. Speaking/listening: taking turns facing [5 mins each]
4. Speaking/listening: taking turns facing [5 mins each]
'SCORE' FOR CONVERSATION PRACTICE
- Take a moment to tune into the chosen object/focus of exploration – this could involve a period of recollection, or looking back at notes, sketches, wordings that relate to the object/focus of exploration, or by noting/drawing/diagramming.
- Connect and try to stay connected with your direct experience.
- Feel free to speak before knowing what it is that you want to say – thinking through speaking.
- Feel free to speak in single words, partial phrases, half sentences, and thought fragments.
- Allow for vulnerability and embarrassment – for wrestling with, stumbling and falling over one’s words.
- Consider different speeds and rhythms. Allow for silence.
- Approach listening to the other as an aesthetic practice.