#TalkingHands

[haarlemupdates]

Op donderdag 16 mei 2024 speelt Talking Hands van Het Filiaal theatermakers de laatste voorstelling van de tournee in Schuur, Haarlem. De familievoorstelling is geschikt voor iedereen vanaf 9 jaar of je nu wel of niet gebarentaal beheerst. In het kader van het Creative Acces Lab wordt er een nagesprek georganiseerd waarin Monique Corvers, artistiek directeur van Het Filiaal. Een avontuurlijk verhaal met handen in de hoofdrol. In Talking Hands beland je in een wereld waar handen alles in de hand lijken te hebben. Waar ze reizen, dromen, gebaren, ontmoeten, zingen en houvast vinden. Reis mee door de tijd, van de handafdrukken in oude grotten van Lascaux naar de handen van de spelers die op toneel stil gebaren. Talking Hands is een cross-over voorstelling, waarin Nederlandse Gebarentaal (NGT) op een bijzondere manier wordt geïntegreerd, met een veelzijdige cast. Zo is de tolk NGT ook opgeleid in musicaltheater en zijn de acteurs even handig voor als achter de camera’s. Interessante details worden live voor je neus gefilmd en groot geprojecteerd. Ud-speelster Jawa Manla zingt de sterren van de hemel. Haar Arabische klanken vloeien samen met de (elektronische) muziek van Gábor Tarján. Kortom: vijf mensen met hele verschillende achtergronden die samenwerken als vijf vingers aan één hand. De voorstelling is niet alleen voor een doof- en slechthorend publiek, maar voor iedereen. Het is wel een uitgelezen kans voor families om met een doof of slechthorend gezinslid gezamenlijk naar het theater te komen. Tolk Mauricio de Kok: ‘Het is fijn dat ik direct de vertaling kan maken voor doven en slechthorenden, maar de schoonheid van de gebarentaal is voor het horende publiek zeker zo indrukwekkend om te zien.’ Info Schuur Donderdag 16 mei 2024, 19:30 uur            

[hayrulvarisin]

'El hareketleri ile konuşmanın' algıyı etkileyerek, kelimelerin daha doğru duyulmasını sağladığı anlaşıldı. Yeni bir araştırmaya göre el hareketlerinin stratejik olarak kullanılması, dinleyicilerin kelimeleri daha doğru duyma ve yorumlama olasılığını arttırırken, isabetli olmadığında ise kelimelerin yanlış duyulma olasılığını arttırdı. Max Planck Enstitüsü psikodilbilim bölümü ekibinin yayınladığı makale ve Viyana Üniversitesi' nden prof. Koppensteiner, insanların elleriyle konuşmasının dışa dönüklük ve baskınlığı işaret edebileceğini ileri sürdü. Örneğin dikey hareketler, gövdeden omuz yüksekliğine kadar uzanan eller otorite ve hakimiyet algısıyla bağlantılı görünüyordu. Beden dili uzmanı Carol Goman'a göre, aktif hareketlerle iletişim kuran insanlar sıcak, uyumlu ve enerjik olarak değerlendirilirken, hareketsiz,  mekanik veya "ahşap" görünenler mantıklı, soğuk ve analitik olma eğilimindeler. Örneğin, TED Talks'ta en popüler konuşmacıların birinci grupta olduğu anlaşıldı. "Bulgular, öncededen de belirtildiği gibi, öğrenilmiş bir davranıştan ziyade, elle konuşmaya karşı geliştirdiğimiz tavrımızın evrimsel bir nedeninin olması da aynı derecede makul görünüyor." https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/talking-with-your-hands/ #brain #talkinghands #neurophysiology #talkingbody #bodylanguage #vücutdili (Uskumruköy, Istanbul, Turkey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkVKJn9oBEb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[wahlcrafts]

The labyrinth hands. #Wahlcrafts #spraypainting #spraypaint #copicmarkers #rustolem #sprayart #fanart #thelabyrinth #maze #davidbowie #jimhenson #puppets #labyrinth #goblin #goblinking #graffitioncanvas #canvas #graffiti #movies #art #instart #geekart #talkinghands

[yellowsmg]

#dailydreamcast #writhing #mass #expressive #talkinghands #talking #hands #asl #interpret #saying #lostintranslation (at Handyland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVvE0WOlU3m/?utm_medium=tumblr

[adylmarie]

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. #HelenKeller Thank you Lord for the gift of Deaf ministry. #DeafMinistry #SundayService #deafcommunity #deafculture #TalkingHands #EffataSibulan #DAVIDVolunteer #thankyouLord🙏 #blessedBeyondMeasure (at San Antonio De Padua Parish Church Sibulan)

[haikuhamo]

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Everything is always extra with her #SpiritFingers #TalkingHands #SignLanguage #Polynesians #TheyGetExcitedWhenTheyTalk

[simmssnakeys-blog]

Juliet Said: ain’t no puppet, my shadow, i run it<3 📸 by the absurdly talented @joshuashultz #talkinghands

[grazicomunale]

As mãos tb falam... e mto! 👌🏻 Hands also speak ... and so much! 👌🏻 By @bianor_pratas and @linnacarvalho #hands #fingers #fingerstattoo #girltattoed #signs #bracelet #ring #talkinghands #tattoedgirl #tattoed #customized #customizeyourself (em Em Algum Lugar Por Ai)

[wahlcrafts]

The labyrinth hands. #Wahlcrafts #spraypainting #spraypaint #copicmarkers #rustolem #sprayart #fanart #thelabyrinth #maze #davidbowie #jimhenson #puppets #labyrinth #goblin #goblinking #graffitioncanvas #canvas #graffiti #movies #art #instart #geekart #talkinghands

[pleasepc]

The latest New Tech, Gadgets, and Reviews! https://t.co/AyQ0Nk1QpQ Thanks to @talkinghand #investing #adaptiveleadership

[photographyandsushi]

When the book stack is almost as tall as you, then you know you've had a good day. 📚 #thebookthing #itsback #books #bookstagram #bookstack #baltimore #maryland #freebooks #besties #vsco #vscomania #vscogood #vsccogrid #bestplaceever #bestfriends #selfie #selfiesunday #ss #booklove #thebookthingofbaltimore #signlanguage #artatwork #talkinghands #reading #bookpile #adventures #thebmorecreatives #charmcity #art #mural (at The Book Thing of Baltimore)

[toldnews-blog]

New Post has been published on https://toldnews.com/lifestyle/an-artist-who-makes-irreverent-and-pocket-size-sculptures/

An Artist Who Makes Irreverent, and Pocket-Size, Sculptures

Like the confectioners that craft Japanese wagashi, traditional tea-ceremony treats, the artist Ron Nagle, 80, creates miniature, meticulously rendered objects that are ripe with dual meaning. In his otherworldly ceramic sculptures, which are small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, pastel stucco planes converge with glossy half-moon shapes, suggesting animal tails, chewed-up wads of gum, bare tree limbs, erect genitalia or excrement — sometimes all at once.

Next month, some 30 of Nagle’s provocative sculptures and drawings will go on view at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York in the exhibition “Getting to No,” a significant showcase of his recent work. While Nagle is an established artist — in 2013, his sculptures were featured in the 55th Venice Biennale, and he has works in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art — and though he played an important role in forming the California Clay Movement, which helped elevate the status of ceramic art, he is still something of a cult figure within a few relatively contained communities. Outside of the visual art world, though, he is also known as a prolific songwriter and composer; he’s credited for writing iconic songs on albums by Jefferson Airplane, Sammy Hagar and Barbra Streisand, as well as for creating many of the sound effects in “The Exorcist.”

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Born and raised in San Francisco, Nagle apprenticed with the Berkeley-based ceramist Peter Voulkos in the ’60s and helped carve out a niche for ceramics to be understood as rigorous and conceptual sculptures, rather than simply decorative objects. He went on to teach ceramics at Mills College in Oakland for over three decades before retiring in 2010 and returning full-time to his practice. Throughout his life, Nagle has tried to make three-dimensional forms appear flat, while still evoking rich, microcosmic landscapes, taking cues from the Italian artists Giorgio Morandi and Lucio Fontana, who challenged the dimensional constraints of painting on canvas in the ’50s. Often installed in peep-hole-style wall recesses or gleaming glass vitrines, like specimens dropped down from another planet, his works mix elements of allure and repulsion to enigmatic effect. Named with tongue-in-cheek puns like “Pastafarian,” “Urinetrouble” and “Karma Gouda,” they are also extensions of his irreverent sense of humor.

On a recent visit to the artist’s sunlit Bernal Heights home in San Francisco, which gleamed white like a freshly painted spaceship, there was a speckling of lilacs and golden poppies that lead through the garden to his next-door studio, which Nagle affectionately calls his “cocoon.” Seated there, sporting an all-white outfit, with a book on Korean ceramics in hand, Nagle answered T’s Artist’s Questionnaire.

What is your day like? How much do you sleep, and what’s your work schedule like?

I get up, have breakfast, take the dog for a walk. In the old days, it was close to a 9-to-5 in the studio. Now, with increased success — I hate these words — I’m busier. My main part of the day, my peace of mind, my “this is what I do because I gotta do it” is being in the studio as much as I can.

I usually order dinner out because my wife and I don’t like cooking. And then around 6 o’clock we watch MSNBC — to see if Trump’s still in office. Scary times, man. I hope you’re not a Republican. She’ll want to watch Rachel Maddow for the second time and I’ll move into the bedroom and watch “The Voice” or “True Detective” or “Ray Donovan.” If nothing’s on, I’ve been known to watch “MacGyver” or “Hawaii Five-O.” They’re reviving all these old shows. I’m a big nostalgia and trivia freak.

How many hours of creative work do you think you do in a day?

Other things take up space in my head, but the work never leaves my mind. I’m always looking, thinking, taking pictures with my phone — of a splat on the street or a ship bow down at Mission Bay. I pretty much remember everything — or I’ll bark it into my recorder. But if we’re talking hands-on-the-material, drawing or whatever the case, I’d say six hours.

What’s the first piece of art you ever made?

I made a bust in high school. I put it in the kiln and it blew the side of its head off. I was going to throw it away and a friend of mine said, “Oh no man, that’s really cool.” I’ve been making stuff since I was a kid. My mother told me I had no talent, she was like, “What do you want to do that for?”

What’s the worst studio you ever had?

Probably the basement of the building next door, where my daughter lives now. Dirt floor. Funky.

What’s the first work you ever sold? For how much?

There’s a sculpture from 1958 that Scripps College owns, “Perfume Bottle.” It’s a big jar with a kind of tombstone stopper. Peter Voulkos brought over a collector who was a math teacher at Scripps and he bought it for $100.

When you start a new piece, where do you begin? What’s the first step?

I draw a lot, that’s really the beginning of it all. I draw in bed, usually watching a Charlie Chan movie. The drawings are very small. I’ll put them on a copier and blow them up to get a general picture of what they’ll look like at a certain scale. And then I start building the models at full scale, at six inches max. I can envision things, to a degree, three-dimensionally. I’m not saying I have visions, but some little idea will come popping into my head. It might be based on something I’ve seen, and subconsciously it finds its way onto paper.

How do you know when you’re done?

When it feels right. I’m a big advocate for letting the works sit. I look at them, leave them around for a while.

How many assistants do you have?

My assistant, Whitney, is the only person that gets in here. And she does all the stuff business-wise and is also great in the studio.

What music do you play when you’re making art?

R&B, Motown, music of Philadelphia from the ’70s, like Gamble and Huff. I try to keep current with pop music, most of which I hate. But I’m into electronic dance music and people like James Blake, Frank Ocean, Kendrick Lamar. I like sad music. I don’t like to feel sad — I hate it, in fact, it’s awful — but I’m drawn to melancholy music.

When did you first feel comfortable saying you’re a professional artist?

I’ve never used the word “professional,” although that’s what I am. To a large degree, it’s too much. I know there’s a certain amount of allure or pretense — depending on where you’re coming from — when you say that. When you say “professional artist,” people automatically assume it’s painting. Then I say, “I make small sculptures.” I’m very reluctant to use the word “ceramics” because ceramics for years had such a bad reputation. The best people working in clay do not declare themselves clay artists.

What’s the weirdest object in your studio?

A picture of Bill Cullen, who was a ’50s, ’60s and ’70s radio and TV host. There’s also a picture of a woman surrounded by cheese.

What do you do when you’re procrastinating?

I don’t think I know how to procrastinate. It’s not a matter of principle. I would love to, love to, but I can’t do it. I always feel like I gotta make something.

What’s the last thing that made you cry?

I just had major surgery, about four weeks ago. I won’t offer to show you my scar. The worst part of the experience was something I hadn’t heard of before: postoperative delirium. I was so scared. It was like a dream, everything going in and out of focus. I was in two different worlds. I was on the phone bawling my eyes out. My wife and I were declaring our love.

What do you usually wear when you work?

I’ve got overalls like Willem de Kooning used to wear in the ’50s. I saw a picture and thought, I gotta wear that, it’d make me a better artist.

Which artists have influenced your work?

Later Morandi. A simpler Philip Guston. Cy Twombly’s sculpture. Kenny Price. Peter Voulkos. Lucio Fontana.

What are you reading right now?

I just finished reading David Sedaris’s last book.

What embarrasses you?

I could do a whole thing on losing my hair — you got 15 minutes?

What do your studio windows look out on?

I have skylights all over the place, so I could say the sky. The new studio looks out over my garden. I have a piece of quasi-Japanese garden sculpture I made with topiary and a slab of rock.

This interview has been edited and condensed.

“Ron Nagle: Getting to No” is on view from May 2 through June 15, 2019, at Matthew Marks Gallery, 522 West 22nd Street, New York.

[presidentbees]

In the SAYER tag on AO3 there are approx three pieces of fanfiction and I’m still really proud to say that one of them is mine. An old piece, but I’m working on cleaning out my drafts and getting more out there soon. 

Title: Strange Lights Rating: PG-13 (mild body horror, swearing) Description: Molly Edelweiss is back on duty. SAYER assures her that everything is just fine.

[tw0f4z3]

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Regrann from @bonne_applebum - She did that. 👏🏾👏🏾I swear i would be watching her more than them . - #regrann #eminem #marshallmathers #signlanguage #hiphop #talkinghands

[westermanbags]

Yesterday we shipped out all outstanding orders and made some fun pictures. I talk with my hands, can you tell? 🙌🏻 because we worked so efficiently yesterday, today there is time for things that have been on my To Do list for way too long 💪🏼 More pictures and a new bag coming up on Etsy and Westermanbags.com today! —— —. — #red #bag #talkinghands #redwall #studio #bluedress #funbag #navyblue #woolfelt #ecofriendlydesign #duurzaam #vilt #westermanbags #zipperbag #tas #felt #purewool #woolmark (bij Westerman Bags)

[jgspdx]

#talkinghands #sturgillustration (at Portland, Oregon)