Part of their work is advocating with and offering training to arts spaces, to help them become more accessible for people experiencing homelessness (and the many other issues that come with this). This includes working with arts orgs and their staff to be more trauma informed.
It strikes me that you have something to offer them, and also that they might be able to connect you with galleries etc that are already exploring this approach to further the conversation.
thanks Jez ... great idea .... what a beautiful mission, to make arts spaces more accessible for homeless people!! i do want to be approaching galleries/organisations ... this is about accessibility .. any introductions would be welcome!
Thank you Ceri. Because your suggestion of a decompression room resonates with my motivation to create a wordless, empathic gallery experience of direct sensory connectedness, I’m sharing an immersive installation I made in 2018:
The work is a dark room consisting of six cinema screen walls plus the sound of gentle breathing. Each screen-participant is looking directly into the eyes of a stranger and each gallery viewer inhabits that reciprocal inter-connectivity.
The artwork aims to bypass polarised thinking patterns and to fuse divisions of language, religion, culture, politics, ethnicity, age, gender, mental health and socio-economic status. It was made before I learned about NVC and was undoubtedly instrumental in leading me here.
For more background, there’s a bts film (9mins) and a zoom presentation (9 mins) at the end of the online gallery.
Embodied engagement with the material doesn’t work well on a small single screen because empathic connection relies on immersion inside the living, breathing gaze of the characters in the gallery. But you can catch a flavour by viewing individual movie portraits on a large computer or tv screen and sitting close.
I só appreciate you posting this here Gerry. I really get the specific intention to create direct sensory connectedness .. your images and videos are a fantastic resource and documentation
Thank you for these salient and important insights and requests Ceri.
I find myself wondering if you're aware of the excellent work of Arts and Homelessness International? (based in London)
https://artshomelessint.com/what-we-do/
Part of their work is advocating with and offering training to arts spaces, to help them become more accessible for people experiencing homelessness (and the many other issues that come with this). This includes working with arts orgs and their staff to be more trauma informed.
It strikes me that you have something to offer them, and also that they might be able to connect you with galleries etc that are already exploring this approach to further the conversation.
Happy to put you in touch if you're not already.
thanks Jez ... great idea .... what a beautiful mission, to make arts spaces more accessible for homeless people!! i do want to be approaching galleries/organisations ... this is about accessibility .. any introductions would be welcome!
Wonderful. Have just connected you with Samra at AHI by email
Thank you Ceri. Because your suggestion of a decompression room resonates with my motivation to create a wordless, empathic gallery experience of direct sensory connectedness, I’m sharing an immersive installation I made in 2018:
https://www.darshanaphotoart.co.uk/transpires
The work is a dark room consisting of six cinema screen walls plus the sound of gentle breathing. Each screen-participant is looking directly into the eyes of a stranger and each gallery viewer inhabits that reciprocal inter-connectivity.
The artwork aims to bypass polarised thinking patterns and to fuse divisions of language, religion, culture, politics, ethnicity, age, gender, mental health and socio-economic status. It was made before I learned about NVC and was undoubtedly instrumental in leading me here.
For more background, there’s a bts film (9mins) and a zoom presentation (9 mins) at the end of the online gallery.
Embodied engagement with the material doesn’t work well on a small single screen because empathic connection relies on immersion inside the living, breathing gaze of the characters in the gallery. But you can catch a flavour by viewing individual movie portraits on a large computer or tv screen and sitting close.
Gerry McCulloch (Transforming Conflict participant)
I só appreciate you posting this here Gerry. I really get the specific intention to create direct sensory connectedness .. your images and videos are a fantastic resource and documentation
“We are not walking minds.”
“We are not walking minds.”