Response to Arts and Bodies

I have been thinking about the Arts and Bodies event on Friday and I think I am now able to formulate a response to it. Obviously this event speaks to the importance of language in society- it was called "The Space of Language." Yet I think that this event highlighted languages weaknesses as much as its strengths. To be quite honest, I felt more comfortable and more connected with my fellow participants when language ceased to be used in any recognizable forms. I felt better able to "communicate" or at least "commune" when parading around the pink square blowing on the didgeridoo than when the participants first arrived and I had to pass out lab coats and the pink key chain mouths. Ultimately, this seems for me to highlight an underlying connection in all people, in that even without language we are still in some ways able to congregate and even exchange ideas. Commands were rarely given to speak or articulate noises, yet people's examples were followed and an understanding was still reached. For me this seems to speak to a sort of Limited Fork theory that is based less on an exchange of intellectual thought and more on a philosophy of life: that everyone makes "ripples" or "waves" and sends out "vibrations" and that everyone is affected by everyone else's actions and even speech or noises.