hey people,
so this is my first homework....not to well done, just as it should be or just like Etchells wants it to be( everybody who was there at the last skype conference knows what I am talking about)
No further explanation...just listen and watch.
I am there for your questions tomorrow.
Best,
Silvie
Sunday, December 14, 2008
a little try on a performative approach to the P. Auslander / M. Williams texts
Hey interspace cowboys!
Here's a little something that I came up with, when I read this week's texts. Since we talked about bringing something into the discussion besides theoretical reflections, this is my contribution to the performative / artistic tryout / messing around- like side of our discourse.
Questions, comments or explicit swearing - everything coming back from you gets a warm welcome from me.
See you guys at tomorrow's skype session!
cheers
jo
Here's a little something that I came up with, when I read this week's texts. Since we talked about bringing something into the discussion besides theoretical reflections, this is my contribution to the performative / artistic tryout / messing around- like side of our discourse.
Questions, comments or explicit swearing - everything coming back from you gets a warm welcome from me.
See you guys at tomorrow's skype session!
cheers
jo
Saturday, December 13, 2008
The hippo,the tortoise...
The Hippo, the Tortoise and the Possibility of Change
Hi guys!!!
I found this interesting and encouraging article about borderless world and liminality in nature...Sometimes,even the strongest inheritances that we all are burdened with,play no role at all...the gap is broken,and new 'uncommon' alliances are formed.An'In Between Space',that celebrates both diversities and unity!Unfortunately,that kind of catharsis is very often derived as a consequence of some dramatical event(natural disasters,wars...)!I found it very inspiring,and something to consider about!What is that we(humans)need to set our differencies aside,and start communicating on a higher and more advanced levels?It seems that universal,'esperanto' kind of communication is achievable...at least in animal kingdom!Nowadays,it seems that it's not civilized to be tolerant...on contrary,prejudices and paranoidal fear from another being puts us in our own cages!Borders(whatever you call them) as a finall act of dehumanisation...
Srdjan;)
The Hippo, the Tortoise and the Possibility of Change
It seems to have been all doominess on here lately, so I'm grateful to Anthony for reminding me of a more hopeful story. Maybe you heard about Owen the baby hippo, orphaned in the tsunami disaster of December 2004, who was adopted by an ancient giant tortoise.
As soon as he was placed in his enclosure, the orphaned youngster immediately ran to the giant tortoise also housed in that space. The tortoise, named Mzee (Swahili for "old man") and estimated to be between 100 and 130 years old, was not immediately taken with the brash newcomer — he turned and hissed, forcing the hippo to back away. Yet Owen persisted in following the tortoise around the park (and even into a pool), and within days the pair had forged a friendship, eating and sleeping together. Owen has even been seen to lick the tortoise, whom he regards as his new mother.
What stuck with me was a report one year on that the pair had developed a way of communicating. "We discovered that somebody was making a sound in the pen, we'd never heard it before, not even from other hippos. And then we realised it was coming from both Owen and Mzee... It's just very unusual."
Set against the devastation of the tsunami disaster, you might write this story off as a piece of kitsch. But I think it matters more than that, and here's why. We are always hearing stories about how our behaviour is shaped by our genetic code. Bookshop shelves heave under titles explaining our everyday actions as the replaying of scripts laid down by the survival needs of our cave-dwelling ancestors.
Now, I'm all for seeking a deeper understanding of the many ways in which the past plays itself out through the present, but this kind of pop science often has the opposite effect. By projecting today's supermarket or nightclub behaviour onto the almost blank canvas of prehistory, it masks the strangeness of the past. In my experience, it is by becoming familiar with that strangeness, with how differently people have lived in other times and places, that we can begin to become aware of how strange our current ways of living are.
When, as in much popular science and media coverage, the focus is all on the role of evolution in shaping our behaviour, the effect is to eternalise the present and make it seem inevitable - simply a more "developed" version of the way people have always lived. With such a perspective, there is little point in challenging anything, because it's just "human nature".
What I love about the story of Owen and Mzee is that it illustrates how much room for manoeuvre nature leaves us. If a hippo and a tortoise can learn to talk to one another, how wide a range of possibilities there are besides the ones we take for granted.
Hi guys!!!
I found this interesting and encouraging article about borderless world and liminality in nature...Sometimes,even the strongest inheritances that we all are burdened with,play no role at all...the gap is broken,and new 'uncommon' alliances are formed.An'In Between Space',that celebrates both diversities and unity!Unfortunately,that kind of catharsis is very often derived as a consequence of some dramatical event(natural disasters,wars...)!I found it very inspiring,and something to consider about!What is that we(humans)need to set our differencies aside,and start communicating on a higher and more advanced levels?It seems that universal,'esperanto' kind of communication is achievable...at least in animal kingdom!Nowadays,it seems that it's not civilized to be tolerant...on contrary,prejudices and paranoidal fear from another being puts us in our own cages!Borders(whatever you call them) as a finall act of dehumanisation...
Srdjan;)
The Hippo, the Tortoise and the Possibility of Change
It seems to have been all doominess on here lately, so I'm grateful to Anthony for reminding me of a more hopeful story. Maybe you heard about Owen the baby hippo, orphaned in the tsunami disaster of December 2004, who was adopted by an ancient giant tortoise.
As soon as he was placed in his enclosure, the orphaned youngster immediately ran to the giant tortoise also housed in that space. The tortoise, named Mzee (Swahili for "old man") and estimated to be between 100 and 130 years old, was not immediately taken with the brash newcomer — he turned and hissed, forcing the hippo to back away. Yet Owen persisted in following the tortoise around the park (and even into a pool), and within days the pair had forged a friendship, eating and sleeping together. Owen has even been seen to lick the tortoise, whom he regards as his new mother.
What stuck with me was a report one year on that the pair had developed a way of communicating. "We discovered that somebody was making a sound in the pen, we'd never heard it before, not even from other hippos. And then we realised it was coming from both Owen and Mzee... It's just very unusual."
Set against the devastation of the tsunami disaster, you might write this story off as a piece of kitsch. But I think it matters more than that, and here's why. We are always hearing stories about how our behaviour is shaped by our genetic code. Bookshop shelves heave under titles explaining our everyday actions as the replaying of scripts laid down by the survival needs of our cave-dwelling ancestors.
Now, I'm all for seeking a deeper understanding of the many ways in which the past plays itself out through the present, but this kind of pop science often has the opposite effect. By projecting today's supermarket or nightclub behaviour onto the almost blank canvas of prehistory, it masks the strangeness of the past. In my experience, it is by becoming familiar with that strangeness, with how differently people have lived in other times and places, that we can begin to become aware of how strange our current ways of living are.
When, as in much popular science and media coverage, the focus is all on the role of evolution in shaping our behaviour, the effect is to eternalise the present and make it seem inevitable - simply a more "developed" version of the way people have always lived. With such a perspective, there is little point in challenging anything, because it's just "human nature".
What I love about the story of Owen and Mzee is that it illustrates how much room for manoeuvre nature leaves us. If a hippo and a tortoise can learn to talk to one another, how wide a range of possibilities there are besides the ones we take for granted.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Here you can see parts of Brian De Palma`s movie i was talking about, Hi mom. We have discussed about form of performance, that want it to be experience and that we want kind of interaction between audience and performers. This is a bit brutal but it might be interesting for us as an example of participation theatre. I think you should check these video clips, just for inspiration.
Perceive how the white people all the time suggesting that it is a performance, but it obvious they don`t believe in it.
Andrija
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Media-Events
Hello boys and girls and whatever you call yourselves.
Remember the text about media-events that I told you about in Belgrade and that I was so eager to add as another inspiration to our discussion?
Well, I finally managed to transform the written Text into bits and bytes and here it is. The original text was about 150 pages, so I tried to extract just the spots which I thought might be most interesting for our work. Still 38 pages strong, but feel free to just skim through the parts that you are bored of. I really encourage you though to force yourselves through the first 8 pages, to get at least a very raw idea of what a media-event might be. Even though I hope some of you manage to read the whole text (and maybe even enjoy it at some points), I strongly recommend to carefully read the pages from 26 ("The Model of Contagion") onwards, since it shows a very strong link to our liminality-question.
Take your time with the text. No Pressure, no deadlines. Just highly recommended inspirational stuff.
klick, load and own it!
http://rapidshare.de/files/41100285/Media-Events_sum-up.pdf.html
Have a good week, hope to see and/or hear you guys soon.
cheers,
jo
Remember the text about media-events that I told you about in Belgrade and that I was so eager to add as another inspiration to our discussion?
Well, I finally managed to transform the written Text into bits and bytes and here it is. The original text was about 150 pages, so I tried to extract just the spots which I thought might be most interesting for our work. Still 38 pages strong, but feel free to just skim through the parts that you are bored of. I really encourage you though to force yourselves through the first 8 pages, to get at least a very raw idea of what a media-event might be. Even though I hope some of you manage to read the whole text (and maybe even enjoy it at some points), I strongly recommend to carefully read the pages from 26 ("The Model of Contagion") onwards, since it shows a very strong link to our liminality-question.
Take your time with the text. No Pressure, no deadlines. Just highly recommended inspirational stuff.
klick, load and own it!
http://rapidshare.de/files/41100285/Media-Events_sum-up.pdf.html
Have a good week, hope to see and/or hear you guys soon.
cheers,
jo
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
in cold blood
The struggle about the serbs has just began. The Germans are fighting in cold blood about who gets who in february. Which serb stays with which german? This is the question that builts up unbreakable borders right through the german team. Some want only the girls, everybody wants Srjan for his/her own. Georg is close to a nervous breakdown for days now. Sandra underlined, that she was the first who applied for Ivan. Will this be the end of the wellknown harmony in the german team? The end of big terms like “creative collectivity” and “collaboration”? We hope for final compromises.
margret
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