So glad to be able to see panels missed, or return to ones with greater time for reflection. I was deeply moved and instructed by this panel, in both its content and in the demonstration of how multi-modal storytelling makes complex and human, those aspects of medical care that are generally hidden from view. Each presenter pulled back the curtain; each highlighted the inherent performativity of storytelling to great effect; each wove their own vulnerabilities into valuable 'insider' information. Specifically: Edwina, this is the 2nd time I've seen you present using your gift for 'dramatic scene' and the immediacy of an unfolding situation to stunning effect. Here you're able to dramatize utter absurdity (entry!) with deeply human compassion/connection as you engage the patient. The juxtaposition jars us, and forces a level of engagement I think we'd gloss over in a different mode of narration. Lors, what a vulnerable and risky narrative to share (and I can see in your body the courage it takes to speak it). Your decision to use "2 voices" and "2 speakers" is wise and very effective. Your highly poetic, fragmented, body-centered, sensate experience captures beautifully the experiential quality of intraoperative awareness, while the sections that Dipbuk voices provide the necessary information/exegesis of such medical 'failure'. The contrast is powerful and persuasive. Anika, a seamless & fluidly intertextual combination of medical stories--loved the integration of multiple narratives from the novelistic to ethnographic to autobiographical. In particular the use of visual arts (paintings as well as the 'miscarriage installation piece' you did) stand is striking contrast and salient emphasis of the stories' content. This is a panel that will stay with me a long time, for its content and its incorporation of multiple, effective, narrative techniques. Kudos!
Dear Elyse, I stand in awe at what you able to show in your responses that I may have missed. This is such a valuable response I know Edwina will value it having worked with you a little at Dartington 'reengaging the body' symposium, and I'm sure Lors Dippbuk and Aninka and Anna will value this too, xx
Dear Elyse thank you so much for your response. It means so much especially when I thought I had fluffed my lines completely. You do so much to build confidence xx
So glad to be able to see panels missed, or return to ones with greater time for reflection. I was deeply moved and instructed by this panel, in both its content and in the demonstration of how multi-modal storytelling makes complex and human, those aspects of medical care that are generally hidden from view. Each presenter pulled back the curtain; each highlighted the inherent performativity of storytelling to great effect; each wove their own vulnerabilities into valuable 'insider' information. Specifically: Edwina, this is the 2nd time I've seen you present using your gift for 'dramatic scene' and the immediacy of an unfolding situation to stunning effect. Here you're able to dramatize utter absurdity (entry!) with deeply human compassion/connection as you engage the patient. The juxtaposition jars us, and forces a level of engagement I think we'd gloss over in a different mode of narration. Lors, what a vulnerable and risky narrative to share (and I can see in your body the courage it takes to speak it). Your decision to use "2 voices" and "2 speakers" is wise and very effective. Your highly poetic, fragmented, body-centered, sensate experience captures beautifully the experiential quality of intraoperative awareness, while the sections that Dipbuk voices provide the necessary information/exegesis of such medical 'failure'. The contrast is powerful and persuasive. Anika, a seamless & fluidly intertextual combination of medical stories--loved the integration of multiple narratives from the novelistic to ethnographic to autobiographical. In particular the use of visual arts (paintings as well as the 'miscarriage installation piece' you did) stand is striking contrast and salient emphasis of the stories' content. This is a panel that will stay with me a long time, for its content and its incorporation of multiple, effective, narrative techniques. Kudos!
Dear Elyse, I stand in awe at what you able to show in your responses that I may have missed. This is such a valuable response I know Edwina will value it having worked with you a little at Dartington 'reengaging the body' symposium, and I'm sure Lors Dippbuk and Aninka and Anna will value this too, xx
Dear Elyse thank you so much for your response. It means so much especially when I thought I had fluffed my lines completely. You do so much to build confidence xx