Hi All,
As we decided this evening, there is a lot of work to do in the next weeks to prepare the final presentation for Monday 17th March at the Great Hall.
Before start 2 announcements:
-There is a presentation about the Isola Art Centre / Milan on next Thursday, 28th Feb, 12-2 pm (RHB 256).
- I am going abroad from Wed 27th of February till 5th of March to finish my field work. So, I will not be here next Thursday and may be if you have an extra session before Thursday 6th of March. I will talk with Taru (the tutor the came for our Tate Modern session) if she can attend the session on the 28th of February. I will let you know.
In relation with the final presentation.... These are the agreements:
-We will meet on next Tuesday 18:30 at Sophia’s place in Brockley. Sophia, please, sends us your address.
-We defined some tasks to work before the meeting in Sophia’s place.
1.
Nahareen, Amal and Liliana will work in what we can do on the weekend of the 6-9 of March. In this weekend we will produce the main material for the final presentation if is necessary. For example, to go to the country side to film a sleep over in a Pic-Nic. This is just an idea as an example. Basically, you have to propose possibility of a final project in relation of what we were talking today.
2.
Sophie and David will research about the Love’s Story.
3.
Andrea and Orianna will research about the meaning and philosophical discussion about the notion of GIFT.
4.
Flavia and Ella will research about the notion of CIRCLE, and its relation with recycle process.
5.
Midori will research about the notion of COMMUNITY.
6.
Sarah, Kegham and Barnaby, please feel free to join one of these topics.
Each one will have 7 minutes to present the work. Please bring material, photocopies, files. We have to be efficient.
The most important thing as a background for this tasks and research is that we will use the group (our community?) as the main force for the final project. There are many ways to understand why and how we define ourselves as a group, a network and a community. This decision is also an obstacle because is more difficult to create a limit while we are the object of study as a group. The possibility to approach these is infinite. In that sense, I do think that we should be very elegant in the way to resolve it for the final presentation. That’s why is important to take decisions in relation with concepts, etc…basically to clean our thoughts and the work itself.
As we talked this afternoon, there are three main fields: first, the potential concepts (intimacy, centrifuge, community, circle, gift, love and network). Second, the archive that makes visible the research (postcards, round, dinner party, blog, notes, maps, pictures, sound pieces and videos). Third, the field that is empty in this moment, because is the project to come. The latter is open and could take many ways, but is a third element that needs time, work and creativity. The final statement will explain all these.
The group should be able the answer in a simple and precise way: what is the group about?
So, listen, re-play this email if there are comments and proposals.
Amal, did you take notes of the session? Can you send to us a brief summary of the discussion, just the main points?..many thanks...
That's all
Sorry for the extension.
Have a nice weekend,
Cristóbal
