For the first time in weeks, no, months… I’ve had a day of being body-focused. although, its taking some time to switch out of previous work modes and into this one. this morning began with Catherine leading a session centering around the body. for the … Read More →
Author Archives: Somaya Langley
anxious
for the past four years i’ve been moving towards developing creative work (slowly heading towards research) around anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd). basically on putting audiences in an environment that heightens their awareness – perhaps making them anxious. while i find the available … Read More →
pads
george, lian and i met up about 2 weekends ago to continue discussion on what we’d be doing at the next workshop (and beyond) as part of this i’d like to see a couple of small tools, methodologies or techniques that we can apply in … Read More →
doco photos
just to let you know that a selection of the photographs i’ve taken as part of this project, i’ve uploaded to a set on my flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/somayalangley/sets/72157606775570832/
sensored up
Finally i make an appearance on the blog again, a number of things have been whirling thru my head, but mostly going in circles without being concrete enough to put down as text. A few weeks back, george, garth and myself met up at the … Read More →
offer
i’m still wondering what kind of skills i bring to the group. i’m very much a jack of all trades… i can do a tiny bit of loads of things, but feel like i’m not an “expert” in any one thing in particular. but i … Read More →
other desires
i need more body work. i need to understand more about how a physical presence in a space changes a person (user’s) perception of a situation – and potentially change their thinking about a certain situation. can empathy really be developed / enhanced in someone? … Read More →
desire
i’m almost too exhausted to communicate my desires – and so what comes out now are the very basics… so for starters, i desire: an interface that doesn’t attach my fingers to a keyboard and lock the rest of my body into some frozen form. … Read More →
somewhere between mind and body
i feel like there is something bubbling in my brain – somewhere in the unconscious, not too close to the surface, but not too far away either. i can’t put my finger on it – only gesturing towards it seems to be the only way … Read More →
Temporary intervention
The Situated Body workshop was lead by Jonathan…. and so we headed off in the direction of the Bundanon homestead to choose a site with which we could find a place that felt familiar, and carry out an intervention on the landscape.