Guest lecture by Elisabeth Motley

• Crypt as a practice
• Subverting normativity with texts and visuals
• Medical and archival systems of power
• Choreographing movements in unwrapping the “book” - loose pages
  • feelings of unnerving, overwhelming, not sure where to start
  • asking the reader to choreograph their body
• Multiplicity
  • there’s always more than one
  • different things happening at the same time
• relief sculpture
  • relief in russian: terrain and relief; changing the landscapes
• How do you go through the medical records without re-traumatising yourself?
  • Time, therapist, breaks, copying and pulling out the language and right away reclaiming it for myself and mine and not something that was done to me/ put on me (creative reclaiming space)
• Flexibility of language, pulling out words, double meanings of words, reclaiming the language, allowing yourself to make it your own
• Bodymind experience was many many things, making up words, using words and it having multiple meanings