I’ve been pondering organising a bi visibility day thing at work.
All is still quite vague but I’m liking some of the concepts.
I’m used to projects being in this stage for a little while. I don’t usually write about them where others can see at this stage so I thought I’d try something different.
I was thinking “bisexual bodies” and having space to think about being bisexual and our bodies.
Space meaning possibly talking about it but also perhaps drawing, modelling / sculpting, dance / movement.
This could be a room with a few stations to look / chat / make. I’m remembering Draw your own Bisexual, make your Bi event in modelling bricks or clay, cut and paste and blackout crafting, dressing up, dressing inanimate objects up to give gender, personality, dancing genders and myths and narratives and being idols for a little while. A virtual room of some sort or a site to play with images and pictures could work also.
I was thinking bodies as a change from words of description or analysis (I work at a university, we have many words. Behaviour and action and feel rather than identity. Things that are in our bodily experiences but don’t go into words completely.
We experience our own bodies as bi folks – everyday and how feel ourselves as sexual (or not) and sensual beings, how our bodies feel in attraction or intimacy, how others interact with our bodies, how we see, feel, do things with other bodies.
Our bodies differ: gender, race, fatness, ability and disability, comfortable or not. We age. We vary. We could have people whose bodies are trans, black, disabled and their experiences.
Our bodies are also sometimes not well looked after by ourselves or those caring for us. Our autonomy and choice and personhoods can be assaulted, intruded on, disrespected or not well supported. There are gazes and commodifications and barriers, pressures and rules. I was mainly aiming to focus on the personal and how the world touches us rather than analysis or group experience.
Minimally I could get funding most likely for a couple of people to talk, or to be in the room as interactive exhibits or to run a doing / making something table. I wasn’t thinking of going into a guided body experience, a dance night, performance or meditative movement and personal contemplation though we could. There are students of imagery and performance who could capture video or pictures or movements or sketches and produce some sort of derived art – or this could be more of a happening and experience just at that time in that place.
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