27 26 #12 Viscerality by Oliver Froome-Lewis & Penélope Plaza This year’s theme problematises the changes that arise from becoming distanced from our gut feelings. To be alienated suggests an excessive distance with significant loss of contact with those feelings, or instincts. Can primordial instincts change, are they still there to be returned to? Or have they been overwritten by quite different preferences and responses? Which gut feelings, rumblings, precisely, are we proposing to recover? We, humans, are hard-wired to connect to others. We may not take notice of it, but our guts know that our wellbeing and our senses of belonging and of meaning depend on our visceral connections to others. This workshop calls on you to draw out personal primordial imaginaries in relation to the everyday interactions of Antwerp, making wearable ‘replicas’ of evocative objects (Sherry Turkle’s Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, MIT Press), deploying and recording these in the city before combining these in a group construct of interpolated hopes and memories. A real-time-tapetapestry (RTTT) that captures your responses to Antwerp’s everyday describing the shifting urban jigsaw through things and bodies, words and drawings. A net of coincidences, serendipities and common experience. In this workshop we will start to recognise within ourselves what is necessary to achieve a recovery from alienation. The world only lives and loves, when we envision it as a social body that combines us all.
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