Plateaux Festival
Utopie
07.09.2019
The Who of Things.
An Evening of Technoshamanism
@ UP STATE, Up State, Zurich, 2016
Ongoing Research, since 2016
Communal Interoception
Installation View of Communal Interoception for Plateaux Festival at Hof Froh Ussicht, Samstagern, 2019
Installation View of Communal Interoception for Plateaux Festival at Hof Froh Ussicht, Samstagern, 2019
Meditation Guide for Communal Interoception, Plateaux Festival, Hof Froh Ussicht, Samstagern, 2019
Snapshot of Communal Interoception at The Who of Things. An Evening of Technoshamanism, UP STATE, Zürich, 2016
Communal Interoception is a guided awareness exercise (Meditation), a somatic as well as meditative format entailed in MBSR – short for Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction – after Jon Kabat-Zinn*. MBSR helps to cope with stress, pain and illness by using what is called "moment-to-moment awareness" through meditation and awareness exercises. A positive effect in stress reduction can be noticed after 5-8 weeks of daily meditation exercises after MBSR.
Communal Interoception is in extension a guided geo- and socio-political placement of oneself, through locating ourselves in our bodies with the help of various objects. As we do so, we create a conscious physical relation to ourselves, we create an awareness of the space we inhabit, the space we do not inhabit, while we experience how this limitation given to us by this exercise is influencing our sense of "moment-to-moment awareness". This part is inspired by the writing and thinking of Korean-American artist Johanna Hedva.
Communal Interoception is in extension a guided geo- and socio-political placement of oneself, through locating ourselves in our bodies with the help of various objects. As we do so, we create a conscious physical relation to ourselves, we create an awareness of the space we inhabit, the space we do not inhabit, while we experience how this limitation given to us by this exercise is influencing our sense of "moment-to-moment awareness". This part is inspired by the writing and thinking of Korean-American artist Johanna Hedva.
At the end of the meditation, Communal Interoception is an exchange of experiences about our perception of this group mindfulness exercise, in the sitting circle. In the exchange we will determine which experiences we share and which experiences are individually different.
*Jon Kabat-Zinn is a professor emeritus of medicine and the founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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