Conversation Balance is an interpersonal installation that explores the nature of political agency through movement. The installation facilitates participants in performing gestures, scenarios, and concepts in an effort to enable latent forms of political expression to emerge.
The piece facilitates understandings of agency by attuning participants’ senses to body movement, and transforming this movement into physical consequences. A step or jump is immediately felt across the platform, implicating participants in group dynamics outside of their control. Participants may become sensitive to bodies in concert and conflict, and the potential of movement as a form of power.
Performative installation
Date
2 & 3 December
Time
12h-20h
Venue
De Nieuwe Regentes
Studio
Module
Exhibition
Participatory
Links
Website
BIO
Julien Thomas (CA) is a social designer from Vancouver Canada. He received his BA in International Relations and Conflict Studies before developing an urban design and civic engagement practice. He recently completed his MFA in the Sandberg Instituut’s Designing Democracy temporary program where he investigated conversational dynamics and group decision-making contexts. His current work explores the role of design objects to facilitate political expression.