Publication Working With Hands Completed!!!

Finaly our publication Working With Hands - Sobre las Manos has been completed!!! You can read it on Issuu or buy it for 5€ on Mairea Bookshop

Open publication - Free publishing - More etsam

The "Flamenco Experience"

Ok, and now the "Flamenco Experience". Its really curious to see the interest this dance provoke specially to the non spanish people... Is because of the typical spanish topic, or is it because of a secret human force? I leave you to decide the answer and while thinking of it you can watch the two videos at the end of the post, that are based on the flamenco and sign language day of the ATHENS Workshop Working WIth Hands.

In the first one we practice the basic hand´s movements on flamenco like wrist rotations, extension, flexion and movement of the five fingers... we also moved the shoulders and it was really funny....

The second one is an improvisation participants made just taking their previous sign language conversation and repeat it adding the flamenco movements they just learned...  

It’s interesting to observe that participants’ body attitude turned out to be more relaxed, open and spontaneous than it was before. Their facial expression showed what was also confirmed verbally; they were confident and satisfied...

Special thanks to Tania for offering us this special session of flamenco dance!

 

Poker´s Body Language

First we´ll try to make an introduction on poker´s vocabulary.

Hand: One round of play or the player's cards

Tell: A conscious or unconscious signal, for instance, a gesture or the way someone looks, that reveals some information about the opponent's hand.

The uncounscious tells: An unconscious tell is the one that somebody makes when he feels unobserved, or does not know he is doing it. An example is covering the mouth with his hand, particularly if done frequently. This can be an indication that he does not have a strong hand.

The  deliberate tell: Is where somebody intentionally tries to convey something. He may tell you a story, so to speak, and you must figure out whether what he is saying is true or not.

In this blog we are interesting on hands(literary) so, what does a hand in front of the mouth means?

The experts say:  If someone has concealed his mouth with his hand, he often holds a weak hand - he wants to hide his emotions. In a sense, he does not want his expression to betray his hand.

Ok, now you can watch the video, and if you want to know more about Poker´s body language this is our source. 

 

Working With Hands goes to Porto!!

Working With Hands goes to Porto!!!

 II INTERNATIONAL ENCOUNTER ON ARTS EDUCATION (2EI_EA)
About the implications of the action in the construction of contemporary narratives.

Our paper is "Working With Hands. Surprised with the common, accustomed to the strange." 
You can read it here.

Over The Rainbow - Last Day Issue

Last issue video made by Jean Augier, Sarka Malosikova, Rebecca Daum and Monika Bauerova.


Last issue video made by Tenay Gonul, Hector Horiuti, Keziban Karacor and Esma Karkukli.


Last issue video made by Marie Alice Lanoe, Gordon Gaudray, Joana Leote and Dorotra Nowicka.


Last issue video made by Blerta Copa, Jacopo Zanetti, Chiara Maiorana and Mariana Quota.


Last issue video made by Martina Jandova, Jiri Koci and Zuzana Cerna.

Without View

Without view, just leaving our hands to look out for the clues, in the very beginning of the course, we lost the sense of sight to approximate each other only by touch, pressure, caress, handle, palpate. Touch produces different sensory information to that provided by the eye... it’s not just reactive but also active (Sherrington, C. 1906 The Integrative Action of the Nervous System, en Sennet, R. 2099. El Artesano, Barcelona: Anagrama; 189). By disabling the sense of sight we took under concern other facts of recognition such as weight, softness, warmth and movement that usually are not relevant at a first contact, and we considered hands as the basic instrument for exploring the unknown. 

 

Unexpected class of Japanese Martial Art

Using one's hands to control the hands of his enemy is fundamental in this technique. Jean, tought us the key points in our hands (palms, fingers, nails...) to disable the enemy with the less possible effort. I think the name of these japanese martial art, is Ninjutsu or 忍術 in japanese, but I'm not really sure... Any of you can help?

 

Mobile Ringtones made by Hands!

Spraak by Keziban, Ector, Tenay and Esma! 1st Prize 

Kwai river by Sarka, Gordon, Marie Alice and Martina

TICTAC by Jean, Dorota and Caroline

M.C.J.B by Mariana, Chiarra, Jaccopo and Blerta

M.J.R.J.S by Monica, Jiri, Rebecca, Joana and Suzan

Skarf

Re-re-repeat...

"Repeat again and again an action is stimulating when it is organized looking ahead. The substantial thing of the routine can change, metamorphose, improve, but the emotional compensation lies in the personal experience to repeat. This experience is nothing strange, we all know it: is rhythm. Already present in the human heart contractions, the artisan has extended it in his hand and eye."

Richard Sennet  "The Craftsman"

hey guys! i saw this picture today and of course, after last week in madrid i notice how big and strange his hands are.. i had to share this with you.. ;)

hope you're all fine!

joana

Knitting...

"According to a commonly used measure, to produce a master carpenter or a musician it takes 10,000 hours of experience. Several studies show that,as the craftsman progresses, his ability improves

Sound Hands

What do you think an academic class is?

Minerva emerged as a headache from Zeus. As the goddess of wisdom, could only proceed from the upper part of his body. The head, so far from the earth, tends toward the sky, the place of the gods. In the Western tradition, the body is opposed to the mind. The latter placed in the origin of knowledge and of being of the noble thoughts, science and art. For years, science was conceived as the result of the mind.

Let's Sign and Flamenco Day

“The study of deaf shows us that much of what is distinctively human in us - our capacities for language, for thought, for communication and culture - do not develop automatically in us, are not just biological actions, but are, equally, social and historical in origin; that are a gift - the most wonderful of gifts - from one generation to another. We see that Culture is as crucial as Nature.” (Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices)