CHANGE IN OUR CONCEPT!!! We have NO time for this!

CHANGE IN CONCEPT

While we were creating our performance with the generalised them of gender and sexuality, we were unable to make a precise point. So instead of physically working we spent a bit of time trying to conceptualise the performance to a succinct and complete summation.

Stimulus

• ‘Children must be taught how to think, not what to think’.

Brainstorm

• Upbringing

• Parents/Family

• Religion

• Culture/Ethnicity

• Media

• Friends

• Education/School

• Social economic status

• Appropriate behaviour

• Appropriate appearance

• Speech

• Social interactions

• Relationships

• Intergenerational

• Intimate

• Family

Images evoked

• Growing up

• Coming of age

• Recognition of individual opinions

• Independent from parents/peers/teachers

• Ideal images

• Girl: Pink/Barbie

• Boy: Blue/Superheroes

• Maltreatment for not being an ‘ideal image’

• Social isolation

• Suffocating

• Anxiety/depression

• Adapting who you are to ‘fit in’

• Social factory

• Creating clones: Assembly line

• Mass production: quality control