FOUND by chance
Irene Murphy
‘FOUND by chance’ is an embodied composition that invites QME to shift perspective and interact with things packed tight with perceptual and imperceptible depth. The aim is to move with a conceptual deafness and tune into that which is beyond our comprehension to stimulate associations, new possibilities and a sense of wonder.
‘FOUND by chance’ is a venture into a primordial way of experiencing the world. Reinstating objects we cohabit with as social players by activating and awakening a pre-linguistic state of pre-knowledge, pre-categorization, function and definition. Revisiting the sensorium commune and liminal experience.
A child’s developing brain slowly absorbs, tunes to vision and sound, developing interpretations, schemata, categories that will determine a child’s reactions to the sensory world that it exists in. The brain continues to develop associations and reactions to new experiences creating new data which diminishes in intensity as systems are formed, decreasing synapses.
Our sensory system has a limited capacity, range and speed. We can work to heighten it and widen it to use it to its maximum through tuning our attention.