7.10.20 Group meeting with Andrea (and part timers)
Andrea suggested that we chose five words to describe our practices to help us locate and describe our practitioner positions:
5 words to describe my practice - before meeting:
Connection
Multiple words to describe my practice - during meeting:
During the meeting, as I listened to Andrea interrogate everyone else, I changed my list slightly and added more nuanced words to my list:
Connection / synthesis / relationship
Embodiment / bodily / uncanny
Provocative / provocation / contradictions / contrast
Transformation / assemblage / transcendental
Touch / surface
Unravelling
My provisional 5 words to describe my practice - after discussing with Andrea:
synthesis
[ sin-thuh-sis ]
noun, plural syn·the·ses [sin-thuh-seez].
the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis,) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements.
a complex whole formed by combining.
Chemistry. the forming or building of a more complex substance or compound from elements or simpler compounds.
Philosophy. the third stage of argument in Hegelian dialectic, which reconciles the mutually contradictory first two propositions, thesis and antithesis.
Biology. modern synthesis, a consolidation of the results of various lines of investigation from the 1920s through the 1950s that supported and reconciled the Darwinian theory of evolution and the Mendelian laws of inheritance in terms of natural selection acting on genetic variation.
Psychology, Psychiatry. the integration of traits, attitudes, and impulses to create a total personality.
Synonyms:
[ em-bod-ee-muhnt ]
noun
the act of embodying.
the state or fact of being embodied.
a person, being, or thing embodying a spirit, principle, abstraction, etc; incarnation.
something embodied.
Synonyms:
[ pruh-vok-uh-tiv ]
adjective
tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
noun
something provocative.
Synonym:
[ ap-uh-rish-uhn ]
noun
a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, especially a ghost; a specter or phantom; wraith: a ghostly apparition at midnight.
anything that appears, especially something remarkable or startling: the surprising apparition of cowboys in New York City.
an act of appearing; manifestation.
Astronomy. the appearance or time when a comet, especially a periodic one, is visible:the 1986 apparition of Halley's comet.
sensorial
[ sĕn-sôr′ē-əl ]
adj.
Of or relating to sensations or sensory impressions.
5 words to describe my practice - before meeting:
Connection
- noun person who aids another in achieving goal
- anoun something that connects, links
- noun something that communicates
- adj. aggravating
- noun representation, manifestation
- noun combining; combination
- noun physical contact
- noun manner, method
- verb make physical contact
- verb have an effect on
- verb have to do with; regard
Multiple words to describe my practice - during meeting:
During the meeting, as I listened to Andrea interrogate everyone else, I changed my list slightly and added more nuanced words to my list:
Connection / synthesis / relationship
Embodiment / bodily / uncanny
Provocative / provocation / contradictions / contrast
Transformation / assemblage / transcendental
Touch / surface
Unravelling
My provisional 5 words to describe my practice - after discussing with Andrea:
synthesis
[ sin-thuh-sis ]
noun, plural syn·the·ses [sin-thuh-seez].
the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis,) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements.
a complex whole formed by combining.
Chemistry. the forming or building of a more complex substance or compound from elements or simpler compounds.
Philosophy. the third stage of argument in Hegelian dialectic, which reconciles the mutually contradictory first two propositions, thesis and antithesis.
Biology. modern synthesis, a consolidation of the results of various lines of investigation from the 1920s through the 1950s that supported and reconciled the Darwinian theory of evolution and the Mendelian laws of inheritance in terms of natural selection acting on genetic variation.
Psychology, Psychiatry. the integration of traits, attitudes, and impulses to create a total personality.
Synonyms:
- noun combining; combination
[ em-bod-ee-muhnt ]
noun
the act of embodying.
the state or fact of being embodied.
a person, being, or thing embodying a spirit, principle, abstraction, etc; incarnation.
something embodied.
Synonyms:
- noun representation, manifestation
[ pruh-vok-uh-tiv ]
adjective
tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
noun
something provocative.
Synonym:
- adj. aggravating
[ ap-uh-rish-uhn ]
noun
a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, especially a ghost; a specter or phantom; wraith: a ghostly apparition at midnight.
anything that appears, especially something remarkable or startling: the surprising apparition of cowboys in New York City.
an act of appearing; manifestation.
Astronomy. the appearance or time when a comet, especially a periodic one, is visible:the 1986 apparition of Halley's comet.
sensorial
[ sĕn-sôr′ē-əl ]
adj.
Of or relating to sensations or sensory impressions.
