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Get your perceptions awakened / your awareness on several places at once /open up your instinct to react
See the others / cover the space
Running through the space
with others, running as well
handling catching
passing on throwing
and a variety of eyes-contacts
How to go about the proposal
Get people running in the space without giving any further instructions, throw a shoe and a pair of sock balls in there. Normally people will pass them on as they run around the space.
What you will probably observe
It very quickly becomes a mess, a collective chaotic motion with the shoe hitting the ground all the time and sometimes hitting the game's participants as well.
How to refine the proposal
Instruct the participants to never throw anything to somebody that they have not had eye-contact with beforehand.
After having said this quickly go back to the game. Add another shoe.
Physiological effects
Increasing of the heartbeat and blood circulation.
Stimulation of the autonomic nervous system:
the sympathetic nervous system tells you there is danger (shoes flying around the room) and after some time playing the game, the parasympathetic nervous system, because we are within a friendly and caring atmosphere, reassures and gives support to the sympathetic nervous system which activates the action.
Stimulating hand/mouth and hand/eye movement patterns.
Stimulating hand/eye movement and rapid eye-movement coordination, same used in reading and writing.
How this game can lead to further games
It could be interesting to do a similar exercise with the group standing in a circle.
1- throw one shoe from person to person, remembering who you throw to and who you receive from
(normally this should be very simple)
2- leave the shoe aside and do the same action with a sock but in a different order
(you can not throw the sock to the same person as you threw the shoe)
3- add the shoe, and have both objects circulating around at the same time
4- put the shoe and sock away, and now you go to somebody that you did not throw neither the sock nor the shoe, and you put your hand on their shoulder, this indicates that you take their place in the circle, who in turn goes to somebody else and take their place signaled by the hand on their shoulder
5- after having done that game by itself, enough times to register it in the body-memory, add one of the objects, and after a while the other.
Order of perceptions
Exchange, gather and collect observations from everyone
Possibility to list and order how we perceive things in this exercise and/or other social, cultural, performative situations
sound/music
architecture/spatial experience
visual
verbal expression/text/words
intention/attention
psychology of person/situation
breathing
smell
taste
hearing
vision
touch