HOW DO WE UNDERSTAND?

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

From a young age, we are taught to understand things just because they are spoken or told to us, but we don't have proof of the things we learn because we are too young to know better. We cannot verify or check for ourselves, but once we grow up and gain the ability to verify for ourselves, how do we know what to trust and what is correct? Is anything correct, or do we just accept it to be correct because someone else tells us it is so? But understanding also involves a deep-rooted and dynamic process that requires perception of the world around us and an embodied engagement with the world rather than a belief in "facts." We must encounter or act upon something such as a performance, event, happening, or idea in order to truly understand and interpret it. Our interpretations influence how we perform in return, since we are making sense of beliefs, identities, and structures of our everyday existence.