Study Circle 7, Day 2, Nathalie Fari

The second day of the presentations of Circle 7 was extremely rich and diverse so that my „antennas“ (and perception) had a hard time to refine all the informations. But there were some common topics and a thread going trough all the presentations, which in the words of Christine Fentz, I would call as „THE LAND WORKS ON YOU“ (and not just you as human being work on the land). What does that mean, especially when thinking about the notions of time and space, I will try to point out by referring to some of the words and experiences of the day:

We should find another use for all the papers that we are filling without purpose. 

(Joanna proposed us to make origamis with useless paperworks) 

The sources of community gives us the chance to share an experience.  

(Lynn proposed us to stitch symbols with pink fabric on the ground of the old Orivesi school) 

We don’t need words to express humanity. 

(Maggie experienced that in a monastery in Russia)   

There isn’t only the possibility to experience the nature by walking, but also by fishing. 

(Ragnhild perceveid that during one of her travels to Sápmi) 

Listen to the place that surrounds you. 

(Christine has been working with the idea of landscape by travelling several times to Tuva) 

Walking in the city can unfold hidden stories of our everyday life. 

(Cecilia has been performing in the public space of Gothenburg) 

To observe the dawn is an enigmatic moment of urban life 

(Magda has been researching the experience of observing the sunrise at different cities). 

By Nathalie Fari

Nathalie Fari on the Circle 7 activities

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