{"id":24189,"date":"2017-02-24T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maihua.fr\/en\/?p=24189"},"modified":"2017-02-23T16:19:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:19:42","slug":"yeah-thats-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/2017\/02\/yeah-thats-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, that’s me"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other night, we did a new workshop with Melissa<\/a> at Seymour+<\/a>.\u00a0 We talked here about this game \u201cThis is so me\u201d where each participant is given an object which they must describe by starting with \u201cThis is so me because\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, where each could set a limit (well yeah, I am not a dice\u2026 SHIT!), there the person develops perspective \u201cby embracing\u201d a foreign object (this is so me because I am multifaceted). This perspective can then develop within a conversation, brainstorm etc. with other\u2026 humans.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So this time we asked each participant to come with a picture of which they could say \u201cthis photo is so me because.\u201d\u00a0 Then we switched it and asked each participant to take someone else\u2019s photo and to write a text starting by \u201cthis is so me because.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I had no idea what the outcome would be and Melissa told me \u201cwell say it!\u201d\u00a0 So I told everyone and it made us all laugh.\u00a0 Where we stopped laughing came a bit later.\u00a0 Because the next 20 texts didn\u2019t describe the writer, but the person to whom the photo belonged.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore if you start with a photo, a person who doesn\u2019t know you is capable of telling \u201ceverything about you\u201d in a sharp and ruthless manner.\u00a0 Its mindboggling and sometimes annoying (it blows that someone knows it all).\u00a0 But most of it, it was magical!<\/span><\/p>\n

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To start with, the texts were magnificent, and then there was listening, a support system, something unique even though no one knew each other.\u00a0 Furthermore because the only thing that a person could write about the other while not being able to do for themselves, was always along the lines of \u201cI am so pretty\/beautiful.\u201d\u00a0 So then I am encouraging you to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n

It reminded me of that exercise with Sasha where in 3 seconds, you could capture a person.\u00a0 It\u2019s frightening and incredible at the same time:\u00a0 we are all open books.\u00a0 It\u2019s the anti-Dorian Grey experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

We all left shook-up and emotional.\u00a0 Still not knowing each other, but knowing each other deeply.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s quite amazing isn\u2019t it?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other night, we did a new workshop with Melissa at Seymour+.\u00a0 We talked here about this game \u201cThis is so me\u201d where each participant is given an object which they must describe by starting with \u201cThis is so me because\u2026\u201d Therefore, where each could set a limit (well yeah, I am not a dice\u2026 … Continue reading Yeah, that’s me<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1169,1176,1228,1177,1216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diary-en","category-feelings-en","category-love-each-other","category-mai-journey","category-sobbing-time"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24206,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24189\/revisions\/24206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}