Inviting ArtEZ peers for dinner and work. How to prepare for a conversation and for a movement conv
What have I prepared for a conversation on "How to prepare for a conversation".
What is needed for a conversation to take place? (from what I propose and what other people I interviewed say they need)
Food (soup, bread, salad, chocolate)
Intimate atmosphere
Relaxing music
Enough space to move
Feeling of the communal
Other people
Words
A table
Wine
Paper
Pencils
Time to think
Time to write
When one invites people to have a conversation over a dinner in a relaxed way but for work, there is always a point where violence gets in. It is the point where behind all these the context is seen, and this is that there is work to be done, one's own work, and these people are there to help with the work.
How does the facilitator (in this case me) introduces, deals with, and incorporates this violence?
How can the facilitator provide a space to work that is based on the senses, and plays with the senses, it deals with emotions, satisfaction, pleasure, and on the same time not make it feel like she deceives people by bribing them?
Thoughts from last evening after some feedback conversations we had
Trying to take this argument to its extreme to see where it takes me
Do you want me to be an experiment of yours?
You do this job with everyone, you are researching conversations, and then you invite us, you give us food, you make a nice atmosphere, and you make us your lab rats?
Introducing the violence, hurts people in many ways. Pleasure, intimacy, then introduction of work.
Either make it only for the experience, and prepare the space and leave it open to see what will happen, or say it's work we do (nothing to do with the ambience/atmosphere) and do the work.