OBJECT AS IMAGE AS LANGUAGE

IN PREPARATION FOR OUR IN CLASS ASSIGNMENT 
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING:

Required Object:

In preparation for Thursday’s class please find one sentimental object that has importance to you and bring it with. Please no breakable objects. The object must be able to be touched by everyone in the class, and shouldn’t be too small to accidentally be lost.

Exercise Outline:

Each student will bring an object of importance to them. For 45min there will be no talking. Students will sit in a circular pattern and one at a time present their object silently. After doing so they should place the object in the middle of the circle. During this 45min exercise each student and the instructor may get up one at a time and move the objects in relationship to one another. Each student is required to get up and move the objects at least once. There are no limits to how many time you can get up and move the objects.

Exercise Objectives:

The objective of this exercise is to explore objects and there meaning in a physical exercise. Objects are full of meaning. The can be read by others without verbal communication. Images work in the same way. This exercise is meant to open up a way of thinking and understanding that images and object have powerful non-verbal language structures.