Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being In Person

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That experience, he says, helped smooth the journey from thinking about how we meet each other in the context of art to thinking about the way we meet each other in the world. “It dawned on me that the thread was the idea of the encounter – everything I was making was about trying to create opportunities for people to meet each other.”

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What Shows Will It Remind You Of? There have been man series that talk about people’s encounters with unexplained phenomena. In this case, Encounters has the feel of a modern-day In Search Of…, mainly because of the doubt that accompanies people’s accounts of their experiences. Stream It Or Skip It: 'Catch Me If You Claus' on Hallmark, A Christmas Movie That's Part Rom-Com and Part Crime Caper In Encounterism, performance artist Andy Field sets out to make our everyday activities – a taxi ride, a trip to the cinema, a visit to the hairdresser, going out for a meal, or a walk in the park – strange again. He does so to highlight the neglected role that public spaces play in allowing us to meet people different from ourselves, and how such encounters are vital for enriching our lives and knitting together the social fabric of our societies. We launched Encounters Dating 15years ago, working with leading companies (including The Times and The Sunday Times) to create a forum where singles who are serious about dating can match, meet and find love. Field points to the ways in which we exist online, how we are pushed into digital spaces to consume more of what we already have and meet people only like ourselves: “Our attention is held in this very limited, narrow way.” Even headphones, another ubiquitous design with pernicious consequences, become in effect a “do not disturb” sign hanging from our ears.

The upcoming docuseries is the latest in recent years to explore UFOs in the wake of a 2017 article in the New York Times that first exposed a shadowy Pentagon program to study what the government officially refers to as UAP, short for unidentified anomalous phenomena. Yet for better or worse, UFOs have increasingly entered the mainstream in recent months as military whistleblowers and others come forward with accounts that lend credibility to a long stigmatized concept. Witnesses have for decades comes forward to share their alleged encounters with strange flying objects and even otherworldly beings themselves, only to often be ridiculed and dismissed. The specter of flying saucers and little green men has long been a topic relegated to the realm of pop culture at best, and hokum at worst.

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