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Posted: 27 July 2020
THE BUNKER READING GROUP LED BY ED FORNIELES
Thursday 30th July, 7pm (GMT) meeting on Zoom – email gallery@carlosishikawa.com to register
"The bunker reading group will meet weekly on Zoom during our time in quarantine to discuss a series of books which will cover a wide range of subjects that are of interest to its members. The emphasis in the group will be to interpret whatever text we are reading from a personal perspective, trying to make sense of how even abstract ideas or global events might relate to our pasts and day to day lives.
It was a break up that derailed me, I had been doing fine going from one relationship to another for too many years when It seemed I finally was able to continue. The break up that ensued was painful; I felt paralysed, in its first stages, I was unable to work or eat and in the later it seemed I had to commit to a program of total reconstruction just so I might begin to move on. As a shake up I now look back on it thankfully, it was time to reflect on myself and my behaviours both in the relationship and in the present, it was a chance to question a habitual way of being that was invisible to me until that point.
So in any case, breakups are hard, they can be intense but often are a time when we are forced to confront ourselves and hopefully grow a little."
We will be reading chapters 2 and 3 of Guy Winch's
How to Fix a Broken Heart (2018). The epublication can be downloaded
here.
Our heart might be broken, but we do not have to break with it. Winch reveals that recovering from heartbreak always starts with a decision, a determination to move on when our mind is fighting to keep us stuck. We can take control of our lives and our minds and put ourselves on the path to healing. Winch offers a toolkit on how to handle and cope with a broken heart and how to, eventually, move on.
We will also be listening to the audiobook of Cathy Rentzenbrink's A Manual for Heartache: How to Feel Better (2017) which can be downloaded here.
When Cathy Rentzenbrink was still a teenager, her happy family was torn apart by an unthinkable tragedy. In A Manual for Heartache she describes how she learnt to live with grief and loss and find joy in the world again. She explores how to cope with life at its most difficult and overwhelming and how we can emerge from suffering forever changed, but filled with hope.
This is a moving, warm and uplifting book that offers solidarity and comfort to anyone going through a painful time, whatever it might be. It's a book that will help to soothe an aching heart and assure its readers that they're not alone.
Posted: 6 July 2020
THE BUNKER READING GROUP LED BY ED FORNIELES
Thursday 9th July, 7pm (GMT) meeting on Zoom – email gallery@carlosishikawa.com to register
"The bunker reading group will meet weekly on Zoom during our time in quarantine to discuss a series of books which will cover a wide range of subjects that are of interest to its members. The emphasis in the group will be to interpret whatever text we are reading from a personal perspective, trying to make sense of how even abstract ideas or global events might relate to our pasts and day to day lives.
I am 37, I have to repeat that to myself sometimes, each year when the number changes it takes me a short while to get used to it. I have to move it around and get used to what it might mean, am I living up to this number, do I meet its expectations. A check list presents itself, a career, a partner, a family, a stable income, all of which reads like a 1950s aspirational suburban novel which I have truly failed to live up to. But at the heart I know I dont like that novel, it's unrealistic, with two dimensional characters that in truth I want nothing to do with.
This week we'll be joined by Hamish MacPherson (aged 45) to discuss ageing, about how our minds and bodies change, about the expectations that sit around it and what possible alternative narratives might guide us through this process."
We will be reading chapter 2 of Paul Simpson's Middle-Aged Gay Men, Ageing and Ageism: Over the Rainbow? (2015). A PDF can be downloaded here.
Is midlife for gay men the start of a slide towards the rejection, exclusion and misery associated with the spectre of the lonely old queen? Whilst exclusion is possible as gay men age, this book offers a more nuanced view of gay ageing, using sociological tools to advance understanding beyond stereotypes.
We will also be looking at Lauren McKeon's 2018 article "How to Build a Life Without Kids" about the increasing trend of living without children, which can be found here.
Posted: 30 June 2020
THE BUNKER READING GROUP LED BY ED FORNIELES
Thursday 2nd July, 7pm (GMT) meeting on Zoom – email gallery@carlosishikawa.com to register
"The bunker reading group will meet weekly on Zoom during our time in quarantine to discuss a series of books which will cover a wide range of subjects that are of interest to its members. The emphasis in the group will be to interpret whatever text we are reading from a personal perspective, trying to make sense of how even abstract ideas or global events might relate to our pasts and day to day lives.
This week will be a lighter chat, sorry for the lateness.
I suppose in my work I have been interested in exploring the idea of a critical empathy. We may not agree with someone's views or actions, but it is likely we can see how they got there, how their grievances manifested, and how the pressures in their as in our lives have shaped them.
Gabor mate said 'if I were you, I'd be you' – a self evident statement that gets to the core of empathy, and which, if we internalise, can't help but lead us to rehabilitation over punishment, understanding over condemnation."
This week we'll be looking at Chapters 1 and 2 of Zero Degrees of Empathy by Simon Baron-Cohen (2012), a book which defines evil as en erosion of empathy, exploring the cause for this erosion and how it is harder for some to empathise and why.
We will also listen to this episode of NPR's Invisibilia podcast, 'The End of Empathy,' looking at the same story told through two different perspectives, which touches on the limits of empathy.
Posted: 22 June 2020
THE BUNKER READING GROUP LED BY ED FORNIELES
Thursday 25th June, 7pm (GMT) meeting on Zoom – email gallery@carlosishikawa.com to register
"The bunker reading group will meet weekly on Zoom during our time in quarantine to discuss a series of books which will cover a wide range of subjects that are of interest to its members. The emphasis in the group will be to interpret whatever text we are reading from a personal perspective, trying to make sense of how even abstract ideas or global events might relate to our pasts and day to day lives.
In this week's reading group we will be looking at both euthanasia and suicide. These are such hard subjects to talk about; when someone takes their own life it is confusing and so often shrouded in silence, preventing those in need from reaching out, which makes the process of mourning so much harder.
While euthanasia perhaps points to a radically different experience of death, it too sadly remains illegal in the UK and taboo, which often has the effect of keeping those wishing to end their own lives trapped in a state of suffering with no recourse to end it.
This subject, while so huge and which effects so many of us, often remains unspoken about. Hopefully in having a discussion we can share our experiences and open up a subject that at times can feel so hopelessly closed."
We will be reading Chapter 5 of Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves by Jesse Bering (2018). Bering takes his personal struggle with suicidal feelings as the starting point for a timely examination of the complex problem of self-harm, looking at both the biological stresses of self harm, and the social ones.
We will also be watching the 2016 BBC documentary Simon's Choice: How to Die, about a man facing the decision of whether to end his life at a suicide clinic after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease.
Posted: 15 June 2020
THE BUNKER READING GROUP LED BY ED FORNIELES
Thursday 18th June, 7pm (GMT) meeting on Zoom – email gallery@carlosishikawa.com to register
"The bunker reading group will meet weekly on Zoom during our time in quarantine to discuss a series of books which will cover a wide range of subjects that are of interest to its members. The emphasis in the group will be to interpret whatever text we are reading from a personal perspective, trying to make sense of how even abstract ideas or global events might relate to our pasts and day to day lives.
It is easy to take norms as if they are some kind of natural state, a set of unmovable protocol that tells us who we are and how we should behave. The Will to Change and the documentary The Work both effectively point to ideas, behaviours and attitudes that have underwritten male identity for centuries, drawing out how this patriarchal mode is damaging not just to those who come into contact with it, but also to those who perform it.
This is not the first group Vanessa and I have done around these works; which have become important to me personally, helping me to identify how these structures have effected my own life, as well as the men around me. It is clear that as long as an emotional language is not fostered in boys and men – as long as vulnerability is seen as a weakness and not a strength – a culture of violence is guaranteed to perpetuate and sustain itself."
bell hooks has been called one of America's leading public intellectuals. Created in response to her in-depth discussions with men The Will to Change, 2004, challenges men to reclaim the sensitivity and love that today's embattled masculinity has forsaken. With her trademark candour and fierce intelligence, Hooks answers the most common concerns of men – from fears of intimacy to the loss of their patriarchal place in society. The result is a book that can help men to feel, to need and to desire openly – qualities that will allow them to thrive as they never have before. We will be reading chapters 1, 2, and 10.
The Work, 2017, by Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous is set inside a single room in Folsom Prison, where three men from the outside participate in a four-day group-therapy retreat with a group of incarcerated men for a real look at the challenges of rehabilitation.
Posted: 8 June 2020
THE BUNKER READING GROUP LED BY ED FORNIELES
Thursday 11th June, 7pm (GMT) meeting on Zoom – email gallery@carlosishikawa.com to register
"The bunker reading group will meet weekly on Zoom during our time in quarantine to discuss a series of books which will cover a wide range of subjects that are of interest to its members. The emphasis in the group will be to interpret whatever text we are reading from a personal perspective, trying to make sense of how even abstract ideas or global events might relate to our pasts and day to day lives.
This week is desire. I've recently been looking at Lacanian Ideas not least because that is what my therapist practises. Although often seen as hard to penetrate theory, its core ideas of desire and jouissance are useful tools for understanding what drives us. Hopefully we will be able to use them as a starting point to begin talking about our own desires, the patterns of behaviour they have created in our own lives and how they might relate to our earliest experiences.
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis by Bruce Fink is a book written from the perspective of the practitioner faced with the pressing questions of diagnosis, what therapeutic stance to adopt, how to involve the patient, and how to bring about change. Fink provides a comprehensive overview of Lacanian analysis, explaining the analyst's aims and interventions at each point in the treatment.
Looking Awry by Slavoj Zizek reviews the fundamental Lacanian categories the triad Imaginary/Symbolic/Real, the object small a, the opposition of drive and desire, the split subject – at work in horror fiction, in detective thrillers, in romances, in the mass media's perception of ecological crisis, and, above all, in Alfred Hitchcock's films."
We will be reading pages 50–71 of A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis & pages 1–3 of Looking Awry.
Posted: 1 June 2020
THE BUNKER READING GROUP LED BY ED FORNIELES
Thursday 4th June, 7pm (GMT) meeting on Zoom – email gallery@carlosishikawa.com to register
"The bunker reading group will meet weekly on Zoom during our time in quarantine to discuss a series of books which will cover a wide range of subjects that are of interest to its members. The emphasis in the group will be to interpret whatever text we are reading from a personal perspective, trying to make sense of how even abstract ideas or global events might relate to our pasts and day to day lives.
Shame begins with someone making you aware that you have crossed a line, infringed on the limits of what it is to be normal. It's a voice that also quickly moves from outside to in, becoming a means by which we police ourselves or that we are policed by, internalising that we are or have done something wrong. This week we will be looking at shame, thinking about how this feeling has affected our own lives and think about how we might address and relieve the sensation. It's a big topic that touches on some of the things we have discussed in the group so far relating to trauma and love." For this week:
Please watch:
- minutes 1:08:14 – 1:14:07 of 'Black Voices: Who is Listening - A Public Dialogue between Melissa Harris-Perry and bell hooks', available here.
(It's a great talk and you should watch it all, but that is the segment relating to shame)
- 'Listening to Shame', TED Talk by Brené Brown, available here.
And please read chapters 40, 41, 69, 70, 71 from Roxane Gay's Hunger.
Posted: 23 May 2020
Richard Sides
Invisible World
2016, stereo mix of 6 channel audio, HD video, 22:52 min
Posted: 23 May 2020
THE BUNKER READING GROUP LED BY ED FORNIELES
Thursday 28th May, 7pm (GMT) meeting on Zoom – email gallery@carlosishikawa.com to register
"The bunker reading group will meet weekly on Zoom during our time in quarantine to discuss a series of books which will cover a wide range of subjects that are of interest to its members. The emphasis in the group will be to interpret whatever text we are reading from a personal perspective, trying to make sense of how even abstract ideas or global events might relate to our pasts and day to day lives.
This week we will be reading a few chapters on desire, infatuation and projection from Anne Boyer's A Handbook of Disappointed Fate, and listening to a podcast where Chris Kraus is interviewed about her book I Love Dick, an account of her one-sided extramarital infatuation.
There is always another who occupies my mind – until recently I think I've always had someone in my life, either a person I was in relationship with, or a crush, a flirtation, someone to DM late at night. My interaction with them, I have always realised later, on one level has had more to do with me than them: an attempt to negotiate some needs via a cycle of desire, projection, repulsion, love. This week I think it would be interesting to have a discussion about how we use relationships, what our expectations are and how we cope when reality comes into conflict with them."
The sections we will be reading from Anne Boyer's A Handbook of Disappointed Fate, are:
Erotology p.81–85
Erotology II: The Long Night p. 87–89
Erotology III: Categories of Desires for Faces p.90–97
Crush Index p.98–99
The Podcast can be found here.
Posted: 23 May 2020
Issy Wood
From the artist's blog
www.QueenBaby.org
Posted: 18 May 2020
Ed Fornieles
TDER GEIST: FLESH FEAST
2016, 08:02 min video
Posted: 18 May 2020
THE BUNKER READING GROUP LED BY ED FORNIELES
Thursday 21st May, 7pm (GMT) meeting on Zoom – email gallery@carlosishikawa.com to register
"The bunker reading group will meet weekly on Zoom during our time in quarantine to discuss a series of books which will cover a wide range of subjects that are of interest to its members. The emphasis in the group will be to interpret whatever text we are reading from a personal perspective, trying to make sense of how even abstract ideas or global events might relate to our pasts and day to day lives.
This week is co-hosted with writer/researcher Tamara Hart, who shares two texts exploring the queering of desire. The first is Luce Irigaray's 'When Our Lips Speak Together' (1985), an imagined dialogue between two female lovers that deconstructs the idea of 'speaking female' through linguistic play. Irigaray's mixing of pronouns of I / you plays with language structures, opening up a space for each of us to understand how we dominate others/are dominated ourselves in the pursuit of pleasure.
The second text is an excerpt from Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts (2015), a memoir about Nelson's relationship with Harry Dodge, a fluidly gendered artist. While Nelson's body is transformed through pregnancy, so is her her partner's as he takes testosterone and undergoes top surgery. Gracefully fumbling her way through pronouns, S&M, and marriage, Nelson provides a poetic testament to queer motherhood and family making. Reading this book years ago, it still feels like an old friend, one who maps out a path for care, tenderness and love. It makes us think how our own language structures our desires, particularly within the bounds of hetero- and homo-normativity.
Our discussion weaves together these texts along with Audrey Lorde's essay on the erotic and our readings on attachment theory, which help us think through how we might queer expressions of love and power that are exerted in our interactions with lovers, partners, and language."
Posted: 18 May 2020
Issy Wood
From the artist's blog
www.QueenBaby.org
Posted: 11 May 2020
Steve Bishop
The Caretaker
2018, 24:00 min video
Produced in 2018 for his exhibition Deliquescing at KW Berlin, this film focuses on a deserted town in northern Canada that was built in 1981 to house the workers of a nearby mine and then abandoned in 1983. Its remarkably intact state is due to the constant struggle to prevent the surrounding forest from reclaiming the town and is a testament to the live-in caretaker, who ensures that the lawns are mowed and the buildings are heated.
Posted: 11 May 2020
THE BUNKER READING GROUP LED BY ED FORNIELES
Thursday 14th May, 7pm (GMT) meeting on Zoom – email gallery@carlosishikawa.com to register
"The bunker reading group will meet weekly on Zoom during our time in quarantine to discuss a series of books which will cover a wide range of subjects that are of interest to its members. The emphasis in the group will be to interpret whatever text we are reading from a personal perspective, trying to make sense of how even abstract ideas or global events might relate to our pasts and day to day lives.
This week we'll be looking at The Apology by Eve Ensler, a book that is written from the perspective of the authors dead father, confronting and making sense of the sexual and physical abuse he perpetrated over the years of her childhood. Through the apology Ensler takes control, processing these events in a transformative way, with a spirit that is both unflinching and compassionate.
So I haven't read this book yet but I've listened to Eve Ensler being interviewed about it and the idea behind the book strikes me as particularly powerful: by assuming her father's voice she asserts her agency, reframing and making sense of his actions on her terms. In past sessions we have read about how trauma is often trapped, fragmented memories constantly being replayed; I feel this book is an attempt to confront this by externalising her thoughts, pushing through the trauma in the act of writing itself. I look forward to the conversation.
The book is quite short, but since it is written as one long letter just read as much as you can in time for the reading group."
Posted: 11 May 2020
Issy Wood
From the artist's blog
www.QueenBaby.org
Posted: 3 May 2020
Sable Elyse Smith
END-LESSsestina
2019, 04:08 min video
Posted: 3 May 2020
THE BUNKER READING GROUP LED BY ED FORNIELES
Thursday 7th May, 7pm (GMT) meeting on Zoom – email gallery@carlosishikawa.com to register
"The bunker reading group will meet weekly on Zoom during our time in quarantine to discuss a series of books which will cover a wide range of subjects that are of interest to its members. The emphasis in the group will be to interpret whatever text we are reading from a personal perspective, trying to make sense of how even abstract ideas or global events might relate to our pasts and day to day lives.
This week, we will supplement a text from Esther Perel's Mating in Captivity with two podcast episodes: Perel's 'Where Should We Begin? Lockdown New York' and Jessamyn Stanley's 'Dear Jessamyn: Polyamory Is Not For Everybody'. Perel's book explores desire and intimacy in long-term relationships and Stanley's podcast is a more casual broadening of that conversation. The discussion this week also loosely relates back to our past reading sessions on broadening the possibilities and definitions of love and the erotic, and also attachment theory.
When going through a break up, a close friend suggested I listen to Esther Perel, a couples therapist who has made a podcast recording her sessions. In it she creates an environment where couples are able to reflect on their past, their dynamic and behaviour; but perhaps more importantly than this she begins to reveal the stories that underpin all these things, and the narratives each person tells themselves as well as the one they project to the other person.
Perel then moves to offer alternative interpretations, alternative stories which might make better sense of needs to both parties and cut through some of destructive patterns that had been allowed to manifest. In being allowed to hear these stories it definitely helped me make sense of my own past relationship dynamics and pointed to the danger of not communicating in not just romantic but all relationships."
We will be looking at chapters 3 and 4 from Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel.
For Esther Perel's podcast, click here.
For Jessamyn Stanley's podcast, click here.
Posted: 3 May 2020
Issy Wood
From the artist's blog
www.QueenBaby.org
Posted: 24 April 2020
Richard Sides
Midnight in a Perfect World
2019, 1:09:37 min, 2-channel HD video
Posted: 24 April 2020
THE BUNKER READING GROUP LED BY ED FORNIELES
Thursday 30th April, 7pm (GMT) meeting on Zoom – email gallery@carlosishikawa.com to register
"The bunker reading group will meet weekly on Zoom during our time in quarantine to discuss a series of books which will cover a wide range of subjects that are of interest to its members. The emphasis in the group will be to interpret whatever text we are reading from a personal perspective, trying to make sense of how even abstract ideas or global events might relate to our pasts and day to day lives.
Love is a hazy word, often defined by a silence, a trust in some unspecified sense or impulse rather than a clear shared idea. All About Love by bell hooks (2000) and Audre Lorde's essay Uses of the the Erotic (1978) force us to define and honour the word, and explore the idea of love as a lived ethic. The ideas in both texts remain radical decades after being written. They have helped me to re-define romantic love after a breakup, but also to re-define a way of trying to exist in the world."
Posted: 24 April 2020
Issy Wood
From the artist's blog
www.QueenBaby.org
Posted: 17 April 2020
Stuart Middleton
I am just going outside, I may be some time
2016, 6:22 min single channel stop motion animation with sound
Posted: 17 April 2020
THE BUNKER READING GROUP LED BY ED FORNIELES
Thursday 23rd April, 7pm (GMT) meeting on Zoom – email gallery@carlosishikawa.com to register
"The bunker reading group will meet weekly on Zoom during our time in quarantine to discuss a series of books which will cover a wide range of subjects that are of interest to its members. The emphasis in the group will be to interpret whatever text we are reading from a personal perspective, trying to make sense of how even abstract ideas or global events might relate to our pasts and day to day lives.
For our fourth meeting, we will be looking at two texts. Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schüll is a look at the slot machine industry and how it has been constructed to generate addictive loops in its users, designed to keep them trapped in a flow state and cycle of behaviour with gambling at its core.
In In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Gabor Maté speaks about addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined to a weak-willed few but as a continuum that runs through (and even underpins) our society – not as a medical 'condition' but rather the result of a complex interplay of personal history, emotional development and brain chemistry.
Hopefully we can use these two texts to talk about addiction both as structural phenomena baked into our environments as well as the by-product of a personal yearning, often connected to our past."
Posted: 17 April 2020
Issy Wood
From the artist's blog
www.QueenBaby.org
Posted: 10 April 2020
Live Talk - Oscar Murillo
in casual conversation with Vanessa Carlos
Entropy and 10 years of travel as research
Wednesday 15th April 18:00 GMT on Zoom. Click here to attend. No pre-registration required.
Posted: 10 April 2020
Pilvi Takala
Players
2010, 7:52 min video
Players portrays a community of 6 poker professionals who live amongst a larger poker community in Bangkok. Playing poker is more a job than a compulsion for them, but the rules that govern their community follow the logic of the game. They use probability theory, the fundamental theory of poker, to ensure that they treat each other justly and that everyone contributes equally. The systematic and analytical way these poker players look at everyday life may seem absurd, and their lifestyle is easy to judge, but this shock may be due more to them ignoring their original society than related to the way they have built their own.
Posted: 10 April 2020
THE BUNKER READING GROUP LED BY ED FORNIELES
Thursday 16th April, 7pm (GMT) meeting on Zoom – email gallery@carlosishikawa.com to register
"The bunker reading group will meet weekly on Zoom during our time in quarantine to discuss a series of books which will cover a wide range of subjects that are of interest to its members. The emphasis in the group will be to interpret whatever text we are reading from a personal perspective, trying to make sense of how even abstract ideas or global events might relate to our pasts and day to day lives.
The third book we'll look at is Against Death: 35 Essays on Living (2019) edited by Elee Kraljii Gardiner. "This collection is a primer on loss, grief, and the grit it takes to have a wide-awake encounter with death. It is a highly individualized, charged, and often lyrical training manual on the subject. The authors (several now gone) have each brought their best writerly powers, a laser-like observation, an unsparing eye to the task at hand." (Sally Campbell)
Posted: 10 April 2020
Issy Wood
From the artist's blog
www.QueenBaby.org
Posted: 3 April 2020
Korakrit Arunanondchai
with history in a room filled with people with funny names 4
2017, 23:32 min video
Posted: 3 April 2020
THE BUNKER READING GROUP LED BY ED FORNIELES
Thursday 9th April, 7pm (GMT) meeting on Zoom – email gallery@carlosishikawa.com to register
"The bunker reading group will meet weekly on Zoom during our time in quarantine to discuss a series of books which will cover a wide range of subjects that are of interest to its members. The emphasis in the group will be to interpret whatever text we are reading from a personal perspective, trying to make sense of how even abstract ideas or global events might relate to our pasts and day to day lives.
The second book we'll look at is Attached by Dr. Amir Levine and Rachel S.F. Heller (2010). The book takes Attachment Theory – an established psychological concept for how our affectional bonds in childhood are developed – and looks at how this informs the intimacy needs and dynamics within all our adult relationships. This is not exclusive to romantic relationships, but this particular book does focus on those.
If you are able to put aside its heteronormative and conventional ideas of what form romantic and familial relationships, this book can provide interesting insights into relationship dynamics. This book has helped me identify more fully what my intimacy needs are and those of people around me, and to improve relationship dynamics.
We recommend you take this online quiz to find your attachment style. (We have found it useful to take the quiz twice: once bearing a romantic relationship in mind, and once bearing a platonic relationship in mind, as the results for both are often very different.)"
These are the page numbers to read for the group discussion:
p.11–23: Decoding Relationship Behaviour
p.77–137: The Three Attachment Styles in Everyday Life *take the online quiz at this point if you haven't already*
p.153–158: (Common Thoughts, Emotions and Reactions)
p.192–208: Effective Communication
p.234–237: Epilogue
Posted: 3 April 2020
Issy Wood
From the artist's blog
www.QueenBaby.org
Posted: 26 March 2020
THE BUNKER READING GROUP LED BY ED FORNIELES
Thursday 2nd April, 7pm (GMT) meeting on Zoom – email gallery@carlosishikawa.com to register
"The bunker reading group will meet weekly on Zoom during our time in quarantine to discuss a series of books which will cover a wide range of subjects that are of interest to its members. The emphasis in the group will be to interpret whatever text we are reading from a personal perspective, trying to make sense of how even abstract ideas or global events might relate to our pasts and day to day lives.
The first book we'll look at is The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk (2014). A book which looks at how we experience trauma and how it might be treated with a fuller understanding of the connectivity between mind, brain and body. Trauma is something we all experience and encounter and when we do it can't help but leave a mark. This book has helped me understand more fully how that occurs and how those experiences might be confronted and begin to be processed, not from a cerebral point of view but from acknowledging the whole body."
Chapters to read for the reading group discussion are:
1. Lessons From Vietnam Veterans
2. Revolutions In Understanding Mind And Brain
3. Looking Into The Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution
13. Healing From Trauma: Owning Your Self
14. Language: Miracle And Tyranny
Posted: 26 March 2020
Evelyn Taocheng Wang
(left) Three Versions of Change, 2018, 13:50 min animated video &
(right) Hospital Conversations, 2018, 14:05 min video
Posted: 26 March 2020
Issy Wood
From the artist's blog
www.QueenBaby.org
Posted: 20 March 2020
Steve Bishop
Standard Ballad
2015, 5:10 min HD video
Posted: 20 March 2020
Issy Wood
From the artist's blog
www.QueenBaby.org
