Be-ing in-touch
Be-ing in-touch Residency was born out of the Pandemic and supported by FABRIC Nottingham 2023.
In response to the nervousness around touch after 2 years of distance, isolation and so much more, it wasn't easy for everyone to make the transition...
Here was an invitation to explore touch and our remarkable skin in sensitive, creative and affirmative ways!
Enjoy a series mini films, each one like a branch offers a glimpse into the Residency and the voice of the participants. These come together in the a final narrative: the Be-ing in-touch film at the bottom of the page.
Navigate, dip and delve as you wish - begin with the film and then the branches or the branches and then the film.
Skin-kin-kind- kindred - movement - making - musing - play - care - relaxation - science -humanities - art - embodiment - awareness - social - solo - joy - well being - health - connection - sense of belonging to ourselves, each other and the planet!
See Movement is the Message and Creative Articulations
In response to the nervousness around touch after 2 years of distance, isolation and so much more, it wasn't easy for everyone to make the transition...
Here was an invitation to explore touch and our remarkable skin in sensitive, creative and affirmative ways!
Enjoy a series mini films, each one like a branch offers a glimpse into the Residency and the voice of the participants. These come together in the a final narrative: the Be-ing in-touch film at the bottom of the page.
Navigate, dip and delve as you wish - begin with the film and then the branches or the branches and then the film.
Skin-kin-kind- kindred - movement - making - musing - play - care - relaxation - science -humanities - art - embodiment - awareness - social - solo - joy - well being - health - connection - sense of belonging to ourselves, each other and the planet!
See Movement is the Message and Creative Articulations
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Meandering in Sand: did you know the patterns on the tips of our finger discern vibration and that C fibre receptors 'touch' into our social brain and helps bond and belong - great chat at the end! 2 mins 49 sec
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Skin kin: explores the wonders of our skin, in print making we appreciate the beauty of an organ that's all too easily taken for granted. Art meets memory, sensation, biology and in the end or in the beginning how we all part nature. 4 mins 25 secs
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Let's start From distance and find our way towards connecting in sensitive and playful ways. Touch contains within it the word 'ouch' so gently slowly gently - always a choice to find what feels comfortable and safe. 2 mins 12 secs
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Grass n Clay, the relaxation of sitting together rolling clay and creating grass families (the hairs of mother earth). Bridging the verbal and non verbal across the tactile world of making. During the pandemic natures presence in our lives was vivid. 4 mins
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In the heart o the space Who cares for the carers was a common theme in our sessions. How nurturing and restorative it is when we are given the opportunity to slow down, expand into spaciousness and be cocooned in softness! 2 mins 43 secs
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Sew creative celebrates imagination and touch through the act of making a stitch, a knit, a crotchet at a time ! Through the tactile realm of our hands we find the joy of the present moment and our self expression. Science meets craft. 2 mins 57 secs
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Soft red rolling a comforting squidgeness, its kinaesthetic yielding momentum softening our tissues and gently defining our form. One of our favourite sensory activities. 2 mins 44 secs
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Lentil-ology the pleasure of lentils as sensation and weight...these experiences once celebrated in our childhood reawakened in our adulthood, a creche for us big-ns! 3 mins
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Pandemic touches on the remoteness many of us experienced when we could no longer physical touch and a 2 metres distance was measurement of the day! On the flip side it gave nature a chance to breath and gave us time and space to appreciate its gifts. 2 mins 56 secs
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Sense of care brings our natural instinct to care through touch (both in the giving and receiving) as we guide our blind folded partner towards the discovery of an object.
3 mins 13 secs |
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The rolling of a Tennis ball or practice golf ball is one the easiest ways to enliven your feet and feel grounded.
The kinaesthetic qualities of objects readily give us access to touch and a sense of embodiment is simply ways. 1 min 34 secs |
The adapted playground game 'X marks the spot' illustrates the power of the sensory world to activate the body through the visual and the tactile. For many it brought a such sense of wholeness and the freedom. 1 min 53 secs
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A sweep of the installation. The towers give us a sense of the 1000 layers of skin we shed in a lifetime. The bag of lentils gives us 'felt sense' of the 9lbs (4 kgs) we shed in one year. Each skin print a beautiful work of art in itself letting go. 2 mins 30 secs
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In Material Girls, fabric brings together the sensory delight of movement, the imagination and play!
2 mins 11 secs |
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Light Having observed our skin through a magnifying glass, we revisit the printed patterns of our skin magnifying them yet again on an OHP. The sensation of light on soft fabric, the movement of air and the gentle meeting of curiosity.
1 min 46 secs |
I was initially interested in simply capturing the falling of skin, however Adam captures something more: the bond between the participants. Falling together illustrates the power of touch to bring us together - igniting our social brain, sense of ease and belonging. 2 mins 53 secs
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Be-ing in-touch the film, brings the narrative of the residency together with additional footage of Notts Dance24 workshop. 9 mins