Eoin de Bhairduin (2020) Why the Moon Travels. Skein Press.
Exercise:
Task: Together using storycircle #1 approach, write a story of who you are as a group. You might also choose to make statements. “I am/We are..”.
The aim of intercultural education is to shift from a focus on identity understood as ‘identical’ to identities involving reciprocal exchange and encounter. It focuses on relationships and challenges ideas of fixed and essential identity. To be alive is to move, to exchange and to change. Museum collections and galleries often offer collections that reveal how ideas, material, rituals, beliefs, and things move. But so too can cities, fashion, everyday rituals. Here we invite reflection on movement and journeys in different ways to ‘normalise’ movement and exchange, The questions aim to prompt a shift in sensibility toward movement, difference and exchange as foundational rather than the idea of ‘identity’ as sameness and fixed. Given fears of movements, exchange, and migration, it aims to open up the conversation indirectly about these issues.
🤔 First: Reflect on ideas that no longer have traction (fashion?). Also reflect on how ideas, maps, materials, motifs, technologies and aesthetic practices circulated the globe, for example, printing from Japan to the Gutenberg Bible to the internet.