1. What is grief?
2. What tragedies is your/my life have led to grief? Which should/could we have grieved but have not?
3. Why does grief make people uncomfortable so much of the time?
4. What attitudes in our culture emphasize power and strength over vulnerability and weakness?
5. How do these attitudes affect how we view people with disabilities or those who are grieving?
6. How can we go about becoming aware of these attitudes and even perhaps changing them so that we can be more loving toward the people our society often wants to shun?
Stephen Pavey, 4:00pm- 5:00pm
1. What disability are you/me/we hiding?
2. When do you/me/we feel naked, unprotected, defenseless or vulnerable?
3. What is the difference between power gained wearing clothes versus power gained by removing clothes?
4. Why do we fear nakedness (vulnerability, unprotected)?
a. Will I be loved?
b. Will I be accepted?
c. Will I be successful?
d. Will I be able?
5. Relationships
a. What are your/my relationships to the dressed, abled and powerful?
b. What are you / my relationships to the naked, disabled and weak?
6. connections between clothing and class/status
Robbie Morgan 5:00pm- 6:00pm
1. What does it mean to have other people constantly touch your naked body? Where is privacy found and articulated in a person? From person to person?
2. What kinds of psychological switches do we make to negotiate when and where we are seen as sexual or corporal (in the medical sense)?
3. In what ways might this be a liberation from the paradigm that the body is the ultimate symbol of access to be given to another as an expression of trust/love?
4. In what ways is it a barrier?
5. What are some of the ways that this is similar or different from disabled to non-disabled?
6. In what ways is the naked body used to express intimacy and connection? What does this look like in a theatrical language?
Jude Lally, 6:00pm- 7:00pm
1. Is it better to have been born with a disability or to have acquired one later in life, or even suddenly, like in an accident or something like that?
2. Is there any way that a person can feel less awkward about having to be naked in front of their caregiver?
3. How does a person in need of physical help go about attaining someone to do the job, without which he or she would be forced to live in a home.
4. How does one maintain a good relationship with the person he or she lives with?
5. What are some constructive ways a person with a disability can vent some of their feelings, e.g., anger, anxiety, depression, aggression, etc.
6. How does a severely disabled person come to terms with the realities of their life:
a. Not being able to do physical tasks.
b. Needing help with the activities of daily living, e.g., bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, meal preparation, going to the restroom/taking medicine.
c. Having to adjust his or her schedule to coordinate with the time when their caregiver is scheduled to be there.
Kurt Gohde, 7:00pm- 8:00pm
1. Bodies, living and dead have long been the study of both science and art. What historical ignorance in Lexington brought Eurydice Thomas’ body to prominence in both fields after a life that was short and overlooked? What did she swallow?
2. Why were mustache cups inappropriate gifts for Dr. Joseph Fithian even though his research involved thousands of hair samples collected from Prisoners near Lexington.
3. Can a person be more naked than when found in a grave despoiled? How can we protect those resting in peace? How have we?
4. Why does flesh fall from the sky?
5. Though public drunkenness may lead to the indecency of public nakedness today, not long ago men were sold as slaves at Cheapside to punish them for such indecencies as intoxication. Who placed bids on these men? How did one of them manage to pay his debt to society by touching the yielding flesh of hundreds?
6. Who knows the power of a body more than those who can both take and restore life? What kind of man would befriend another man who did both to him with a matter of minutes?
Teresa Tomb, 8:00pm- 9:00pm
Bruce Burris, 9:00- 10:00pm
1. in order to best understand you- so that I may be able to provide you with the unparalleled service I am well known for- I will need to ask you some very intimate questions- the details of which- if provided by you- will most likely remain deeply embedded in my subconscious until I die– unless perhaps on occasion they may well up to the surface reminding me that I am harboring a kind of lesser specter which does up to a point represent the certain qualities- hopes- fears and dreams of one who I am really at best only marginally acquainted with and yet feel a kind of fierce love for--- are you ok with that?
2. do you currently have a Medicaid card?
3. what medication(s) are you are currently taking?
4. do you need assistance with a. toileting?, b. bathing?, c. feminine hygiene? (etc.)
5. do you have a handicapped parking tag?
6. can you tell me that story again? (you know the one)
