An Equal Reflection
John Hole, Senior Lecturer/Field Chair, Performing Arts, Oxford Brookes University
Disciplines: Inter-disciplines, Dance
Status: Current
Start date: 1/9/2006
Our project addresses a concern that language exchanges occuring in moments of casual everyday activities are conditional and contingent upon implicit assumptions deriving from context, purpose and function, and that this conditionality is not fully recognized as crucial in shaping perception at the point and time of these exchanges. We are interested in the potential dysfunctionality of language in “casual, everyday” exchanges when perceptions may not concur, and specifically, how this may affect learning process. For example, among those who perceive the everyday world through what is described as learning disability. We wish to explore ways of embodying within language itself greater acknowledgement of such conditionality.
As part of this project, an event was held at Oxford Brookes University (Harcourt Hill Campus) on 2 May 2007:
"Assemblage": a workshop on inclusive communication through dance