Storytelling and Objects: Telling the Stuff of Living

“It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what concepts we think to think other concepts with.” ~ Donna Haraway This workshop is an exploration into the capacious possibilities that story has to offer us and how we might bring them into our bodies, into the space and alive through objects. With myth and fairytale, and paintings as our starting point, we will work with archetypal images, with the poetic imagination and the poetic body. We will take the opportunity that objects and puppets offer us: the invitation to make the object into a subject. To dive deeper into multiple subjectivities, multiple perspectives of the same story, to uncover multiplicitous stories. Perhaps we will find some new kinds of stories or new ways of telling stories, ways that we might urgently need in the world in which we are living.

Course leader

Cat Gerrard