Notes by Robyn Herfellow, Assia Ghendir, and Rainer Knupp
Archetypes
What if we were three characters based on Jungian archetypes?
Assia the Outlaw will step onto the battlefield instantly to protect from over-protection. The outlaw never forgets their vision of utopia.
Robyn a jester, uses humour as a route to the heart, not a tool of deflection. Their mischief can flip a room, change a situation, to be employed as an invitation.
Rainer brings and seeks safety, flowering in crisis situations. He initiates direction, creating a beginning, middle and end. His silence destabilises energy to make space for something new.
Returning after summer
There are many more new people in the care home. New rooms have opened, but still it seems there are more new people living in the care home.
We wonder about how many deaths have occurred during the summer break without us being aware This is something we would expect more in the winter.
In the afternoon session though people have not changed that much. The care home staff are clearly bringing more people out. We are seeing a hearty variety of faces in the afternoon. It must be a whole combination of who is awake and interested at the right moment.
AI in the care home
Dystopian second floor canteen scene. They use some kind of streaming channel on the TV which plays an endless dirge of AI generated music and videos in a ‘vintage’, ‘relaxing’ or ‘religious’ style. Music that is vaguely reminiscent of a style but is not recognisable. It seems to function to prevent silence. Care homes surely don’t need to pay royalties’ licenses, and can play music, so why use this?
A raucous afternoon session
“You do something in the session, and you wonder what it is. You repeat it and then it leads you to the memory. We don’t know how we are going to perform and that’s the beauty of it. Making it up as you go along, keep it to a theme, and you are making something that is wonderful, that you begin to wonder how fearless you can be. We don’t know what we are doing and that allows something new to come out. That’s what our activity is.”
Laurence – Care Home Resident