Communication is a fundamental human activity, and as much as 90% of all communication is non-verbal. Yet awareness of embodied intelligence in communication is rare. This book is the fourth in a series by interdisciplinary educator Andrea Olsen focused on embodiment. Through the exercises and readings in this book, we can deepen our relationship to ourselves and others and improve our communication skills, moving between worlds: inner and outer; self and other; self and Earth. Each of the thirty-one chapters combines factual information, personal anecdotes, and somatic excursions, inviting the reader to explore multiple learning styles and lenses for finding balance in a more-than-human world. This guidebook is a valuable resource for anyone seeking practical tools for living and communicating with more ease and clarity.
ANDREA OLSEN (Middlebury, VT), writer, performer, and interdisciplinary educator, is the author of three previous books on the body: BodyStories, Body and Earth, and The Place of Dance. She is a professor emerita of dance at Middlebury College in Vermont and was visiting faculty at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California. She performs and teaches internationally and is a certified teacher of qigong. CHRIS AIKEN is a dance artist and associate professor of dance at Smith College.
"Andrea Olsen's writing calls us toward a critical quiet, an urgently quiet practice. Her guidance gives us the framework we need to regard our place: our bodies, our spirit, in this world. She has shaped a month of days to practice, remember, and remind us of what is within reach."
"This is the book we have been waiting for. Andrea has captured this moment in history when we can truly co-create a kinder world society through personal embodiment of Self. She guides us in a deep practice of awakening the wisdom of our moving body supported by breath, cellular vitality, and scientific inquiry. Read this book. It can transform not only your life, but together, our collective well-being."
"In our cautious, distanced modern milieu, we too easily forsake the body. Here Andrea Olsen reminds us that the body, our bodies, are the center of any engagement, interaction, or offering we will ever have. She brings multiple lenses to a 'scholarship of the body,' of lived experience, applying her findings to our needs for communicating across divides. This book is like no other, stretching between dance and dialogue."
"What does the body have to do with communication?' one of Andrea's students asks impatiently. This book is her response, and it is a gift to us all. This fascinating, compelling collage of elements gradually reveals what makes the body so profoundly communicative, within oneself, with others and with the world. The body's complexity is reflected in the extraordinary richness of her means, encompassing science, stories, art, images, memories, philosophy, spirituality, and, above all, exercises that ground readers in their own felt experience. Andrea writes not just about the body but from the body. Moving Between Worlds is her body communicating with our bodies."
"With Moving Between Worlds Andrea Olsen offers a sophisticated, layered book with poetic language, personal anecdotes, photos, plentiful references to other artists, thought leaders, and books, and of course 31 days of movement and writing activities to try on...this book in particular can help build these connections between body and community, between feeling and expressing."
Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds is the first comprehensive museum exhibition for the pioneering multimedia artist Dawn DeDeaux. Since the 1970s, DeDeaux's practice has spanned video, performance, photography, and installation to create art that exists at the edge of the Anthropocene. Anticipating a future imperiled by the runaway population growth, breakneck industrial development, and the looming threat of climate change, DeDeaux has long worked between worlds of the present and the future.
Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds is organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art and is sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Besthoff; Ralph and Susan Brennan; Dr. and Mrs. Byron Crawford; Catherine Burns Tremaine; Sarah and Harvey Wier, in memory of Nan Wier; David B. Workman; and The Robert E. Zetzmann Family Foundation. Additional support is provided by Tina Freeman and Philip Woollam; The Arthur Roger Fund for NOMA; John C. Abajian and Scott R. Simmons; Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Davis; Melissa and John D. Gray; Renee and Stewart Peck; Hugh and Beth Lambert; Yorke Lawson; Robyn and Andrew Schwarz; Shaun and Foster Duncan; Charles L. Whited; and Friends of Bill Bertrand, in honor of his retirement. Special thanks to collaborators Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology, John Fischbach, Misha Kachkachishvili and Esplanade Recording Studio, and Pedro Segundo.
On view at the New Orleans Museum of Art from October 22, 2021 through January 23, 2022, Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds is the first comprehensive museum exhibition for the pioneering multimedia artist Dawn DeDeaux. Read More
Artist Dawn DeDeaux joins Brooklyn Rail Editor-at-Large Dan Cameron and artist and arts administrator Joseph S. Lewis III for a virtual conversation over Zoom. The program concludes with a poetry reading by Cliff Fyman. Read More
Dawn DeDeaux is a New Orleans-based artist and spring/summer 2021 artist-in-residence at the Joan Mitchell Center. This interview was filmed at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans in May 2021, in advance of the opening of Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds. Read More
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One of the most engaging discussions I remember having with the class was around the potential risks of spending too much time in a virtual reality world and what that could mean for individuals and society as a whole. It was difficult to imagine becoming so absorbed into that kind of world when the technology was expensive, bulky, and inaccessible, and the graphics were so limited. Perhaps my thinking back then lacked the same context as the technology did. Years later, Charlie Brooker would explore these themes in Black Mirror episodes like USS Callister and bring the debate to light in a much more tangible and vivid way.
In this virtually digital reality, the traditional boundaries that once separated the tangible from the intangible have evaporated without the need for VR hardware. Our experiences, emotions, and memories are not only lived in the physical world but are also intricately intertwined with the cloud.
Social media, messaging apps, and online portals are now the mechanisms through which we manage our daily lives; sharing, connecting, and engaging with others in ways which just a couple of decades ago were hard to imagine. So much of our lives are lived online. From ordering food to booking and paying for a taxi. From arranging a mortgage to paying a pound for mufti day at school.
Over the past couple of decades, the drive to digitise and transform everything has resulted in too much bad design, focused on self-service and the needs of business rather than the needs of end users, coupled with a lack of consideration for the wider ecosystems in which those products and services exist and which connect to form the lived experience of our worlds.
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The World Between Worlds, also known as the Vergence Scatter, was a mystical plane within the Force that served as a collection of doors and pathways existing between time and space, linking all moments in time together.
Loth-wolves, creatures native to Lothal, were intrinsically tied to the World Between Worlds and were capable of traveling through the realm in a similar manner to hyperspace travel. The Mortis gods painting served as the key to unveiling the entry way to the realm, through assistance from a key stone from the temple, by a Force-wielder, who was to place their hand on the Daughter's encircled hand.[2]
As a result, the Loth-wolves within the painting shifted away from the gods and moved in a circle together, which formed the portal to the realm. However, the portal to the World Between Worlds was closed if a Force-wielder placed their hand on the Son's encircled fist, which prompted the painting of the Father to conceal the entryway and the temple itself.[2]
After the discovery of the Jedi temple on Lothal, the power-hungry Sith Lord Darth Sidious, ruler of the Galactic Empire, deployed Minister Veris Hydan with the Imperial Military to the site in search of an entryway to the World Between Worlds in his lust for power.[2]
The Sith's designs were thwarted when the Jedi Padawan Ezra Bridger discovered the world's key, and was able to unlock and enter the World Between Worlds first. After saving Ahsoka Tano from the past by pulling her into the realm, Bridger became adamant in also changing the fate of his master, Kanan Jarrus. However, Tano reasoned with the Padawan that they would all be dead without Jarrus' selfless sacrifice, telling Bridger that she understood the pain of being unable to save one's master, citing her own experiences, and taught Ezra Bridger to let go.[2]
Turning away, the pair resolved to close the portal to the realm to prevent others from accessing it, only to encounter Darth Sidious, who tried to enter the realm using the Force users. Bridger and Tano, however, were able to return to their own times, with Bridger closing the portal and causing the Lothal temple to collapse, taking Hydan with it.[2] Having returned to her own spot in time, Tano ventured into the depths of the temple[4] and found another portal to the World Between Worlds.[5]
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