Lecture Body Languages

Ike Kamphof presents various possibilities of sensory existence and co-existence by exploring rhythms, mimetic mirroring and sensory details. These all play a large role in our daily, largely silent and subconscious interaction. 
Ruud Hendriks studies clowns specializing in dementia care, who seek to help people with this condition retain their sensory and emotional being in the world. He focuses on clowning as a technique to become extra-sensitive to the subtle, wordless expressions of persons with dementia. Training the senses helps the clown go along with the patients and become attuned to their ways of being in the world. The clown also tries to find access to hidden capacities in people with dementia to stay sensitive and receptive to outside stimuli.
 
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Ruud Hendriks (1961) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS). He studies artistic projects pertaining to people suffering from dementia and Parkinson’s disease. 

Ike Kamphof (1959) is a philosopher and Assistant Professor at FASoS as well. She studies the role of media and technologies in care networks. In her recent book, Iedereen Voyeur (Everybody is a Voyeur, 2013), she explores our relationship to the world and to each other as expressed in ways of looking. 

Marres Training the Senses
The series Training the Senses consists of presentations, workshops and real warm-up sessions which aim to provide insight into knowledge of the senses. In the series, we explore the way we recognize and use our senses and. Moreover, by training the sense, we get to explore the world in a better way. The series is part of a multi-year program of Marres dedicated to the senses.