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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