Calling in Sick

Display - Association for Research and Collective Practice is a platform active in the wider field of contemporary art. We are interested in how through artistic and other research practices we can contribute to the understanding of the complexities of the world, the actions of actors in it and their interactions. We see ourselves as researchers and organizers, and our desire is to look for alternatives to social coexistence and cooperation. Faced with global processes and unexpected social shifts that visibly or secretly change the conditions of human lives and their relationships, we feel it is necessary to start looking for new forms of activities and communication.

Display – Association for Research and Collective Practice

This is a bodily communication workshop oriented around storytelling about illness. Participants recollect experiences of feeling unwell or calling in sick to work within a set of linguistic, gestural, and haptic exercises, thereby considering how the language we tend to use around illness in various contexts (medical, professional, etc) shapes our experience of it. By experimenting with how to structure a ground for intimate and caring communication that recognizes rather than erases difference, new language can emerge that makes illness a collective matter rather than a private experience. Drawing from dialogic exercises structured to explore social group identity, as well as artworks and excerpts from illness memoirs, “Calling in Sick” will address what has become chronic through haptic encounters that invite intimacy.

Calling in Sick

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