explanation - one possible idea of the happening:

During the system-week, a lot of different feelings awoke inside us, like total confusion, stress, curiosity, anger, joy; and we tried to give them all a form, looked for a way to express them. As a stage, we used a white wall, which we transformed into a picture of our emotions, like capturing moments of sense. The source material was clay, later we tried different colours and food, depending on the daily mood.

We used the movement of throwing, because there are many different meanings connected in this move. The strongest emotion is anger (if you smash something against a person), or if a wedding is celebrating, rice will be thrown, to wish the best of luck to the newlyweds, or if you are playing a team sport, a ball will be bandied, which encourages the common bond.
Starting point of our work was the process of analysing the area of Golders Green. The district seemed to be a place full of hidden feelings. The Jewish community is very strong, but they keep just to themselves.

So we see ourselfs as collectors of emotions, giving people the opportunity to show their feelings to an audience and let them float into an unique artwork; during a time, where a pokerface ist the best way to manage the day.

24 hours

So ,reply's have started to come in to my posed question, what would you do with an extra 24 hours?

Heavily pregnant young woman replied, "I would throw a 24 hour party people for loved ones, rave on!"

New mother with 4 month old baby replied "If i had an extra 24 hours....I would have a massage, then a long hot bath with loads of relaxing stuff in it, and then sleep.... something I have had none of since **** arrived!! When am i getting this extra 24 hours? "

Mother of a 6 and 2 year old "I would have a leisurely bath (in peace), read the papers in a little coffee shop with a latte and a croissant, trawl around the antique shops, go for a lovely walk in the countryside, then put my feet up and start reading all those books that i have been meaning to read"

40 year old father of 2 "* says she would take twice as long to do all the things she would normally do. i would indulge myself with stuff i don't normally get a chance too... lay in, porn, listen to my guiltiest pleasures , watch Ali videos, do drugs I am normally too guilty to do.... .Smoke in the house, drive as fast as I could, that sort of thing, actually I might start now"

parents of 4 "* would go fishing, * would get a job and earn money"

Mid 30's female professional "I I had an extra 24 hours I would get up, have a full english followed by croissants and real coffee. I would then sort out all my photos into date and category, then add to photo albums. That would probably take the full 24 hours although if it didn't, I would get my hair cut, as am desperate and just can't find the time

recurring themes already, mainly coffee and baths.......

Exhibition Ideas

Hi all,
I have some first thoughts for the exhibition, I am really into the idea of the audience becoming the exhibition, so that they are actively involved.The exhibition could be documented in some way, and this document could be sold to raise funds.
I am wondering if we might want to break into smaller groups, ??
Taking the idea of scale,
make smaller or larger objects that the audience could interact with, i.e, large or tiny knitting needles, this could be documented through film.
Movement,invitations to be sent to the audience, the flyer's would have maps on the back the audience bring the flyer's for entrance with their journey to the event marked on the map, this then becomes part of the exhibition. either through display, projection ??
24hours,
24 photos taken every hour for 24 hours, taking place in and around an area, the photos to be displayed by projection at the event, obviously as time goes on, the amount of photos to be shown will increase, the audience will be photographed and become part of the exhibition.the photos to be collaged into a document after the event and sold.
an extra 24 hours
(my favorite) Pose the question, 'what would you do with an extra 24 hours' ask a variety of participants, all ages and backgrounds to reply by letter, email, and supply a photo, 24 responses to be selected and displayed for 24hours. The audience could also respond and this could become part of a publication, perhaps 24 different versions dependant on how many responses.

SOME Images

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goodtimes!

Hi All,
unfortunately i didn't take any photos from the cockroach day,( although Ciara did so i am sure that they will be posted) Stephen I know you saw it, but for the others, we approached the project by picking a quality of the cockroach that we were interested in,
in this case it was vision,as seen through a compound eye. We showed this visually by creating a series of filters that could be worn. For our presentation we filmed through the camcorder using the filters and projected this image into a 'cockroach den' that we had built. The viewer was invited to enter the den, watch the projection and then interact with the experience by wearing the filters, listen to white-noise and try to navigate the den. The feedback that we received was that the experience was disorientating, and the participants seemed to enjoy the interaction.
I was wondering if any of you have had any thoughts of how we can use the experience of this day to inform our mini briefs, could it be in the form of presentation? or the ability to create things with low-tec materials ? for me, I rally enjoyed exploring an idea and presenting it fully in a variety of ways.

These nice pictures were taken by Sophia and I changed the colour, I think we did a good job for wetroom week :)

Following on from  workshop my context module has been informed by my interest in intuition.

Exploring how creation exists without and defined motives I have begun to explore.

No quantifying. No rationale
Just; explore.
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here some pictures of the system-week

If we want do make something for the exhibition as a group, Sophia, Ya Ju and me had a nice idea: starting from the system-weeks project with throwing clay against the wall, we wanted to give other people the feeling of being free as well. So we wanted to arrange a wall in the exhibition place and hand out different materials like, colours, food, old stuff,... everything people always wanted to throw. At last every visitor can create his own T-Shirt. The Shirt will be pint on the wall and people can throw different paint on it. So, every garment is unique and can be acquired.

Hiiii,

for my monday project I want to book the Filming room, tense white strings in the whole room and switch off the light. Just a UV lamp will be switched on, so the white strings are glowing. For my project I need some volunteers, which should be dressed in black (just the hands, feets and hips should be white) to see which parts of the body are in use while getting through the installation. Are they similar or different? It´s all about movement and getting into a strange situation, because there will be no direct light. I will document the whole process with a videocamera. Is someone interested?