tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18414057.post7530349395550643578..comments2023-11-05T04:09:20.946-05:00Comments on Wild Horses Of Fire: Prosodic Body scheduleThom Donovanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03284233270040597539noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18414057.post-17304634247792576942008-02-12T21:51:00.000-05:002008-02-12T21:51:00.000-05:00Big questions in the perineum! --origins of langua...Big questions in the perineum! --origins of language, prosodic architecture, poetry and space...that's enough to make one curl up in the dark and ponder for sure...<BR/><BR/>I wish I could attend your talks, but I cant. If I were able to, I would inquire into what seems to be an assumption that language is speech, ie phonemes as the primal energies. I would like to see how this project would entertain the gestural theory of langauge origins--that the word energies bubble up from the body, movement--primal dance of gesture. <BR/><BR/>I have been working on a project that links sign language (in this case, American Sign Language, and architecture, in what we at Gallaudet University are calling the "Deaf Space Project" <BR/>Though we have not set out to explore architecture of poetry, we have set out to inquire into a gestural poetics of architecture. What is a visual/tactile archictecture for Deaf folk. <BR/><BR/>We have been working with an architect, who would clearly love to engage poetry and poetics of buildings... <BR/><BR/>perhaps we can discuss further... in the meantime, enjoy ...Dirksen Baumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01949150449740547399noreply@blogger.com