RE-Connection Lab with Creative Time at Red Stage by Rashi

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June 25 & 28, 2021 (Astor Place, New York)

As we re-enter the world from isolation, have we forgotten how to connect? Amidst the collective trauma of global lockdowns and social and political turmoil, loneliness prevails. Screens have become our portal to everything: work, friendships, family, entertainment and even love. In Re-Connection Lab, artist Lacey Dorn will conduct 10-minute human connection workshops. Using the 36 Questions For Closeness Generating, which were empirically proven by psychologist Dr. Arthur Aron to forge a bond between any two strangers, Dorn will allow participants to re-acquaint themselves with the art of establishing human connection, which happens to be amongst the most effective ways to heal trauma.

LACEY DORN is an artist, actor and filmmaker, working in both fine art and cinema. While an undergraduate at Stanford, Dorn staged her first performance art interventions and created her first festival films. Dorn's experiential performance/video works have been featured in solo and group shows, including at Palais de Tokyo, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Paul Kasmin Gallery and Mana Contemporary Museum. On stage, she stars in Jay Scheib's ongoing live-cinema art performances of “Persona” and “The Silence,” after Ingmar Bergman, which have run to critical acclaim across the US. Dorn and Scheib have ongoing collaborations with The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology, including work with the Computer Science Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab. Narrative films she has directed, written, produced and acted in have screened at festivals, including SXSW, Mill Valley and Cannes. 

36 QUESTIONS FOR CLOSENESS GENERATING BY DR. ARTHUR ARON
1. Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest?
2. Would you like to be famous? In what way?
3. Before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say? Why?
4. What would constitute a “perfect” day for you?
5. When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?
6. If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the mind or body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want?
7. Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die?
8. Name three things you and your partner appear to have in common.
9. For what in your life do you feel most grateful?
10. If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?
11. Take four minutes and tell your partner your life story in as much detail as possible.
12. If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be?
13. If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about yourself, your life, the future, or anything else, what would you want to know?
14. Is there something that you’ve dreamed of doing for a long time? Why haven’t you done it?
15. What is the greatest accomplishment of your life?
16. What do you value most in a friendship?
17. What is your most treasured memory?
18. What is your most terrible memory?
19. If you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are now living? Why?
20. What does friendship mean to you?
21. What roles do love and affection play in your life?
22. Alternate sharing something you consider a positive characteristic of your partner. Share a total of five items.
23. How close and warm is your family? Do you feel your childhood was happier than most other people’s?
24. How do you feel about your relationship with your mother?
25. Make three true “we” statements each. For instance, “We are both in this room feeling…” 
26. Complete this sentence: “I wish I had someone with whom I could share…”
27. If you were going to become a close friend with your partner, please share what would be important for them to know.
28. Tell your partner what you like about them; be very honest this time, saying things that you might not say to someone you’ve just met.
29. Share with your partner an embarrassing moment in your life.
30. When did you last cry in front of another person? By yourself?
31. Tell your partner something that you like about them [already].
32. What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?
33. If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would you most regret not having told someone? Why haven’t you told them yet?
34. Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire. After saving your loved ones and pets, you have time to safely make a final dash to save any one item. What would it be? Why?
35. Of all the people in your family, whose death would you find most disturbing? Why?
36. Share a personal problem and ask your partner’s advice on how they might handle it. Also, ask your partner to reflect back to you how you seem to be feeling about the problem you have chosen.

Documentation Shot & Edited by Nick Noyes. Additional Footage from Rebecca Fourteau and Morgan Flatt.

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