What are the drawbacks and barriers in communication through language?

How big of a role do the other ways of communicating (e.g. non-verbal) play in making communication through language more successful?

What other non-verbal forms of communication do people use?

Language communication in non-intimate interactions.

Language communication in intimate interactions.

• how these differ

• what kind of language people use

• what barriers (and misunderstandings) arise

When do people feel like they are emotionally intimate/connected with someone? How does this happen and what role does language play?

Relationships: how emotionally intimate actually are we?

For example, how often are people talking/thinking at cross-purposes and this acts as a barrier to emotional intimacy that people might not realise?

1. **Expressiveness:** Language allows for intricate expression of thoughts, emotions, and complex ideas, enabling nuanced and detailed communication.

2. **Versatility:** It is a highly adaptable tool, capable of conveying a wide range of information, from concrete facts to abstract concepts.

3. **Cultural Transmission:** Language is crucial for transmitting culture, traditions, and societal values from one generation to another.

4. **Social Bonding:** Language fosters social connections, allowing individuals to share experiences, build relationships, and form communities.

5. **Learning and Education:** It serves as the foundation for education, facilitating the transfer of knowledge, skills, and information in various fields.

6. **Problem-Solving:** Language enables collaborative problem-solving by facilitating communication within groups and teams.

7. **Record Keeping:** Writing and recording languages help in preserving historical records, literature, and scientific knowledge.

**Disadvantages of Language as a Means of Communication:**

1. **Ambiguity:** Language can be ambiguous, leading to misunderstandings or misinterpretations, especially when words have multiple meanings.

2. **Barriers:** Different languages can create barriers to communication, hindering understanding between individuals or groups who speak different languages.

3. **Subjectivity:** Language is subjective, and individual interpretations may vary. What one person intends to convey may be understood differently by another.

4. **Inefficiency:** Expressing certain abstract or complex ideas can be challenging, and nuances may be lost in translation, leading to inefficiencies in communication.

5. **Miscommunication:** Errors in grammar, pronunciation, or word choice can result in miscommunication, impacting the clarity of the message.

6. **Influence of Emotions:** Emotional states can influence language use, leading to communication that may not accurately reflect the intended message.

7. **Selective Communication:** Individuals may choose to withhold or distort information, leading to selective or biased communication.

8. **Overreliance on Words:** Non-verbal cues and gestures are important aspects of communication, and an overreliance on verbal language may neglect these elements.

While language is a powerful and versatile tool for communication, its effectiveness depends on various factors, including the context, the individuals involved, and the clarity of expression. Being aware of the limitations and actively working to overcome potential disadvantages can contribute to more effective communication.

Surreal:

What makes things surreal?

Why are people drawn to the surreal?

Why does it have an emotional reaction?

Does the brain perceive time differently in dreams?

https://www.britannica.com/topic/uncanny-valley

Eerie feeling of aloneness - abandoned places can turn into liminal spaces - a 'non-place' a place that almost feels like it doesn't exist, creates the same feeling of impermanence and being suspended in the unknown as liminal spaces as your separated from society and the world - the things that are known and solid

How can places evoke intense emotions, if (you think) you've never been there?

Why are these spaces linked to nostalgia?

Related to non-verbal communication - movement makes puppets human-like

How has CCTV affected cases and crimes?

How much privacy do people actually have?

How much can you tell about people/their lives from what you see on CCTV?

Is the sense of being watched real?

Is it surveillance wrong or right?

I am still getting used to directing my own time, and I want to work on managing my time more efficiently, for example using studio time and daytime for doing things that further my work, and using the evenings for recording what I have done in my sketchbook. In my previous specialism I struggled with keeping my sketchbook up-to-date and sometimes wasted studio time updating it. This way, I will also be able to use my evenings to consolidate everything I have done and go over it in my head which will help me understand my practice better. 

I want to self-initiate more designated discussions with myself and with others about my ideas – I have found that talking through ideas (with others or myself) makes me much clearer on what ideas I like and don’t like. Discussions with others also often further my ideas, give me references and give me new ideas. 

I want to reference from a wider range of subjects. I am going to do more research outside of my designated project research, into anything that interests me – this way I will have a much richer and broader knowledge and collection of references to incorporate into my work. This will make my work more layered and make it easier for me to make conceptual decisions within my work (for example, where to display my work, what colours, textures, and imagery to use, etc.). 

Experiment through making and doing more, instead of spending too much of my time brainstorming ideas and then putting off actually doing them –  which I do too much of at the moment. Once I have an idea I like, make it real immediately, even though I won’t be sure it will be successful – I can decide that after. That way I will build up a much larger body of work, and my final pieces will be much stronger as they will be based on real-life prototypes. 

Evaluation and Review: 

Once I have done something, have an interim crit with myself, to see where I can take it now – how to take it further or take it to a new place. 

Keep working on ideas even after I feel I’ve made something ‘final’ with them. 

Connect ideas and material from different pieces. 

Communication: 

I want to work on thinking about the audience and how my work communicates/what it communicates. 

Use crits, discussions and interacting with people in the studio and relevant audiences, to find out what communicates successfully and what communicates things I don’t want. Record it all in my sketchbook and then remake and work into the pieces using this knowledge, (then repeat the process etc.). This way, I will work on making my pieces communicate what I want them to more successfully. 

This will also develop my skills in communication through my work, through surprising me and broadening my knowledge in communication, for example when my piece communicates something I didn’t expect it to. 

Is it positive or negative fascination, both?

Surreal again

What are lost songs? How do they get lost?

• facial expressions, body language, gestures, posture, clothes (and other self expression), social cues, passive communication (like sarcasm, passive aggressiveness, mumbling, irony)

• ^ context is really important

• cultural context

• perception checking (like analysing someone's actions (and words))

• physical - handshakes, hugs, pats on back etc.

Visual:

• symbols and imagery - charts, graphs, illustration

In relationships: love languages:

Dance:

• can express stuff

• can create connections between people

• communal dances - community, culture, rituals

Interesting link between how surreal things often seem to connect to something subconscious in a person which causes a sense of familiarity. Use of language in poetry can connect to something subconscious, can connect to something familiar.

This way the surreal has the power to connect people on a deeper level, perhaps than regular language can

How do people feel about these?

What is the experience of dancing in a community dance?

'cooperation is valued more than competitiveness'

How do these link to culture?

What do people feel about these in relation to culture? People within the culture and outside of it

What communities and dances do I want to look at specifically?

--> different music and dance styles

this could be used as research into what connections are built and how easily through different dances and atmospheres/social gatherings

neurodivergent masking

nostalgia culture on social media

What it is?

Letters not about Love: movie by two poets (Lyn Hejinian and Arkadii Dragomoshchenko) exploring words and their meanings, and creating poetry from it which becomes very personal and you get an insight into them as people from what they write

Things that are confusing - emotional/gut feeling decisions and how these differ between neurodivergent people and neurotypicals

How do these different languages make communication easier and harder? Help people understand what each other is saying and understand each other as people more or less?

I am interested in how people use various 'languages' (e.g. conversations, dance, images, unconscious emotions) to connect mentally with each other and have an understanding of each other's thoughts, feelings, viewpoints, opinions and characters. There are many ways that people connect other than conversations and there are many levels and unspoken complications within conversations - these are what I want to explore. As people we always assume we understand each other completely - how much do we really?

(understandings changing also?)

Can partner dancing create a more intimate understanding of each other than regular conversational communication?

Maybe I don't have enough personal experience for this one - even if I do start partner dancing, I might not have enough time to get close enough with a dance partner to understand the connection

Relationships: how emotionally intimate actually are we?

For example, how often are people talking/thinking at cross-purposes and this acts as a barrier to emotional intimacy that people might not realise?

What subconscious queues do we pick up on to mentalise

• facial expressions, body language, gestures, posture, clothes (and other self expression), social cues, passive communication (like sarcasm, passive aggressiveness, mumbling, irony)

• ^ context is really important

• cultural context

• perception checking (like analysing someone's actions (and words))

• physical - handshakes, hugs, pats on back etc.

  
  

In relationships: love languages:

How big of a role do the other ways of communicating (e.g. non-verbal) play in making communication more successful?

What other non-verbal forms of communication do people use?

Language communication in non-intimate interactions compared to intimate interactions? (how these differ, what kind of language people use, what barriers (and misunderstandings) arise)

When do people feel like they are emotionally intimate/connected with someone? How does this happen and what role does language play? What role do other things play? (could even use Sam's example of dance partners)

How well do we understand each other?

How close are we? Do we feel the same way?

What people bond over

Shared things as a form of communication in relationships, a catalyst of mentalising, and a language in itself

(due to inferences of words, inside jokes and shared references of words and phrases, shared past experiences or thought patterns leading to shared inferences of words, more non-verbal cues understood)

dance

shared experiences

tv shows

shared sense of humour

Card games

School for Good and Evil (Annabel)

Sport (e.g. rowing and Annabel)

research the bots themselves

Object sexuality

Agalmatophilia

Could connect this idea to idea of wastefulness

also you're sectioned off from society - feeling of time stopping

liminal spaces - TIME

These buildings are museums, have travelled through time holding different people's stories throughout

Exploring the past through these buildings, stories of the past that are fading away slowly (due to decay, the people being forgotten, etc.)

Exploring the lives of people from the past, people who might not even be alive anymore (I'll be able to find out for some probably)

Research into humans' relationships with time, memories, nostalgia etc.

mutual hated people

religion

beliefs

political beliefs

shared good experiences

shared bad/stressful/traumatic experiences (or events)

Same verbal habits!!!

--> leads to less misunderstandings, and just a general understanding of each other

Also the people who have been there since - graffiti, squatters (maybe), people exploring, going there to get drunk

Also the different people who lived there all through the past and the history of the building (secondary research as opposed to primary)

Why do we feel compelled to go into them?

Why do they create intense emotions for us?

Look into negative and positive afterimage

Interview Sam, maybe attend dance with her to see her relationship with dance partner

Does it make people more likely to be open?

Do people bond over similar/same music taste? Is it the love for the style of music, or the people, musicians, beliefs, cultures being represented in the music?

People feel they can express themselves through music, sometimes parts of themselves that they can't as easily express in words. Does this create connections because people are being more open even if it isn't picked up by/communicated to the other person? Or is it subconsciously picked up?

I feel like when the receiver (in this case audience) isn't quite picking up what your expressing, when its not as blatant as saying something, its easier to express yourself

This opening up increases bonds!

There was an exhibition here on disused stations

https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/visit/museum-guide/past-exhibitions/hidden-london-exhibition

(Look up if fortune tellers can only know certain events in your future or if they can actually know you as a person - e.g. your personality)

Joining their story to a community of collective people's stories