The following video shares some of the work completed as part of the project \u201cSilent spaces, healing presence: an arts-based, contemplative inquiry into the wisdom of silence and presence in higher education<\/strong>\u201d led by Lauren Michelle Levesque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The impetus for the project emerged from my interest in the questions:\u00a0Why is it important to reinhabit the shared public spaces of our university campus post-pandemic?\u00a0How can the arts help us with this reinhabiting? By exploring these questions through silent performances of collective art-making, the hope was to gain insight into how a particular university community has navigated the loss of social connection experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Performing in silence was an effort to be present or tuned into the dynamics that contribute to such connection: light, listening, laughter, relationships, spaces\u2026.perhaps there are other dynamics you would add the list?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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