“ A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space… Sometimes the house grows and spreads so that, in order to live in it, greater elasticity of daydreaming, a daydream that is less clearly outlined, are needed.”  Poetics of Space 

  Themes of Ordinary affect, Affect Theory, to affect and to be affected, the knowing body/embodiment, movement/choreography design. Where is the model for emotion? The individual and the group. Visceral experience, chance, play,  being open the the moment in real time. The tangible and the intangible. Pain and belonging. Risk and temporary community. Poetry, the poetic.

 

Initial inspiration roof workers, risk , chaos, belonging, day dream. Images felt in the body, danger, empathy. The significance of the home, temporary communities, houses. Collection of sketches:

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Thinking about the individual and the group, choreography of groups, of the film dimensions.  From Poetics of space, wondering about attics and cellars, above and below. Deep belonging, relationship, discord, embodiment, aliveness. ”

 

 

“We are inhabited by deep imaginings, visual and verbal, auditory and tactile- that we re-inhabit in our own unique way. Poetics is about hearing and feeling as well as crafting and shaping. It is the double play of re-creation. And this oscillating tension flies between subject and object, mind and matter, active and passive. “

 

Challenges:  actually getting on a roof safely, (or getting others). Having to use myself duplicated, spent a lot of time getting bad green screen to look less bad, hindered efficiency in generating and exploring ideas. Currently switching to 2D practices to sketch options and learning more technical tools next semester.

Trial attempts for people moving on a roof.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignment in writing to overlap images of ourselves working on a project.  I had recorded my son in the beginning of a psychotic episode-not intending to make work with it. I used it as an opportunity to combine some ideas, test run figures moving in space and overlapping sound. Process of being open to events as they happen in life, chance placement of figures.

 

Green screen test and more exploration of movement, grouping. Wondering if movement and the body has to be literal. What about stillness? Again, where is the model for emotion?

 

Writing assignment, rewriting a manifesto with layered text.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music, it is to be felt. Does it need to be explained? Does art have to make sense -clarity of narrative-if it’s purpose is to engage visceral responses perhaps intense enough that it triggers a change ( a feeling, mood, tangent thought), ‘disrupts one’s being’ and aliveness if only for a moment.?  

Assignment writing-language. Speaking a prayer or words of gratitude while filming yourself working. I found a prayer to lose something when put to words. I had recorded a concert recently. realizing the musical warm up and the ensemble performance has elements of chaos and order,  the individual and the group, I am also making a grouping of clay bodies in my recycle process. Belonging, the visceral, moving, feeling. Where do you receive the music in the body?  Where do you receive an image in the body?

Writing project, uncreative writing, pure copying text, Swann’s Way Proust was one of two options. I found it serendipitous Proust speaks about his body and its relationship to houses he has slept in. The knowing body, the body and space. Chance.

Final Writing assignment, documented myself transcribing Swann’s Way on my body in permanent marker.

 

“It’s memory, the composite memory of its ribs, knees and shoulder blades offered it a whole series of rooms in which it had, at one time or another slept: while the unseen walls kept changing, adapting themselves to the shape of each successive room that it remembered, whirling madly through darkness and  ever before my brain, lingering in consideration of when things had happened and of what they had looked like , had collected sufficient impression to enable it to identify the room, it, my body, would recall from each room in succession what the bed was like, where the doors where, how daylight came in the windows, whether there was a passage outside, what I had in my mind when I went to sleep, and had found there when I awoke.” Proust

 

 

Critical Theory Exercise

 

Books: Ordinary Affects, Kathleen Stewart,  Chance, White Chapel Gallery, Margaret Iversen,  Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Kandinsky, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing one Sees, Robert Irwin, Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, Relational Aesthetics, Nicolas Bourriaud, Hold it Against Me, Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art, Jennifer Doyle, The Art of Making Dances Doris Humphrey.The Affect Theory Reader, Melissa Gregg