STUDY
CIRCLE 7 / DAY 1
by
Nathalie Fari
During Alia Zapparova's presentation „Being-in-a-room: on habit and waiting as artistic strategies“, I
decided that the Blog Posts should be an attempt of summarise what is being
discussed. This decision is related to my idea to not to make an analysis of
the presentations, but rather a narration of its own which comes out of the
words, sentences, quotes or feelings which draw my attention - something what
is completely dependent on the state of mind of the day. For me this narration
shouldn’t only be related to my perception, interests or concerns, but also to
the atmosphere of the whole group. Therefore I will try to be a kind of
‚seismograph‘ which is on the duty to perceive at the same time, the motions of
the ground and the group - this might sound not easy to do, but it serves as an
artistic strategy to escape from the common and known and as well, to invent a
new language. So here follows my first brief resume and ‚measurement‘ of the
presentations which contains as well fictitious elements (under each paragraph
are the name of the ‚speakers‘):
Perceptive Media - Digital Story Telling: a woman
in the lift trying to find out where she is…, talking with a man who sounds
like a robot…, she is trying to find out how different medias and datas can be
used to create a locational identity…, hold on: BBC news has an incredible
answer…, what? Sorry, but they can tell it now, as they are too busy to report
about whats going on the planet (or might it be on the desert where the
distinction between ‚life‘ and ‚non-life’ doesn’t exist anymore)…
Anna Frew
Presence as a process: from one another. During a
period of time, some inmates could send and receive postcards from relatives in
and out of a prison of Helsinki.
Their basic themes were related to everyday life, to the food they eat, how
they sleep and also how is the life in prison. Just few of the inmates took
part, but their participation was at some extend seen as an act of political
resistance… one question stayed completely open in the room: can we imagine a
world without prisons?
Anastasia Artemeva
Habit x waiting - Being in a room as a form of
absence - To be in a room is to experience time - Eating an apple is the same
as washing the dishes - Repetition and Stillness - To be in a room is to
discover the waiting - Emptying time - Looking outside the windows and waiting
something to happen - A ROOM IS AN ARCHIVE OF NO EVENTS - are they waiting
rooms of history?
Alia Zapparova
Photographs = continuous work between the image
and psyche = memory > biographical narration > decoding reality. Each
participant of the group is taking care of an own image and observing it during
the week. Seeds were planted on the surface of the images and now we are
waiting for its transformation, of what was seen before the memory could see,
before the traces of our perception could imagine another image…
Anne-Laure Vernet
„When things happen too fast, no one can be
certain about anything“…
Jon Irigoyen quoting Milan Kundera
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