Lilia Toncheva O'Rourke

Advanced capitalism - hyper individualism 

Today - Self as Other 

Homi Bhabha – The Third Space is a postcolonial sociolinguistic theory of identity and community realized through language. It is attributed to Homi K. Bhabha. Third Space Theory explains the uniqueness of each person, actor or context as a “hybrid”.^{[1][non-primary source needed]} See Edward W. Soja for a conceptualization of the term within the social sciences and from a critical urban theory perspective.

Third Space theory emerges from the sociocultural tradition^[2] in psychology identified with Lev Vygotsky.^[3] Sociocultural approaches are concerned with the “… constitutive role of culture in mind, i.e., on how mind develops by incorporating the community’s shared artifacts accumulated over generations”.^[4] Bhabha applies socioculturalism directly to the postcolonial condition, where there are, “… unequal and uneven forces of cultural representation”.^[5]

Another contemporary construction of three "spaces" is that one space is the domestic sphere: the family and the home;[11] a second space is the sphere of civic engagement including school, work and other forms of public participation; and set against these is a Third Space where individual, sometimes professional,[12][13] and sometimes transgressive acts are played out: where people let their "real" selves show.

Third Space Theory can explain some of the complexity of poverty, social exclusion and social inclusion, and might help predict what sort of initiatives would more effectively ameliorate poverty and exclusion. Bonds of affinity (class, kin, location: e.g. neighbourhood, etc.) can function as "poverty traps".[15] Third Space Theory suggests that every person is a hybrid of their unique set of affinities (identity factors). Conditions and locations of social and cultural exclusion have their reflection in symbolic conditions and locations of cultural exchange. It appears to be accepted in policy that neither social capital nor cultural capital, alone or together, are sufficient to overcome social exclusion. Third Space Theory suggests that policies of remediation based in models of the Other are likely to be inadequate.[citation needed]

'space of cultural encounter in which the
colonizer and the colonized negotiate, producing hybridity in culture. This type of
culture subverts colonial domination by deconstructing essentialist identity and binary
opposition of the colonizer and colonized or the East and the West.' Nagendra Bahadur Bhandari, PhD

THIRD SPACE --- SECOND WORLD 




Made a cohort Locatiom Map - a starting point in mapping our coordinates 


https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1gU6MUfxaTX_5X_8mw9xyzPtVhH9e5Ac&usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M9t0qllMK4GQMszWQg_-gENiDVbA-SkMrYXQPsvdrwQ/edit?usp=sharing

New concept - 'Sensorial Otherness' 

'Anthropology of the senses' - to explore in more depth ! 

An intense week of learning and trying to break through the puzzle of Unit 2 submission.

Have been looking at mapping, deep mapping, psychogeography.

Love the idea of maps being emotional as well as territorial, and how their physicality can be affected by emotions.

Went to the CSM library and got out 

'Mapping it Out' - Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist

Mercator - cylindrical projection (atlas) 

Learnt about Buckminster Fuller - the inventor of the Geodome
crazy inventor 

Ephemirasation, doing more with less 
Taking things apart and putting them back together 


BK - Radical democracy 

Mallarme + Mike Kelley (rearranging words) 
Nancy Peluso - counter mapping, 1995 




Madeleine de Scudery - 
La carte du Tendre, 1654, based on sentimetal relationships

Buckminster Fuller 

Dynamic
Maximum 
Tension 
Map
+ 
Archive 

Dymaxion Map - 3-D atlas visualisaton without distortion 

Isochahedron - below

Decahedron - 10 sided shape - one for every one on the course?? 

Fahlstrom -

Arianne Littman - Wounded maps 

SOFIA - an invisible city 

not featured in list of European cities in artist experiment 

Headlands centre 


DEEP ATLAS  - Lise Mogel - counter cartographer 

https://whitney.org/education/community/programs/art-project
People don't question maps 

AIM - 
me in relation to others 
Positionality map - step 1 

Ephasis on creative practice and practice in relation to others 

Emotional Geographies - Bjork - Emotional Landscapes 

Draw from cohort skillsets

Make a LEGEND for mapping 

Identify something in their practice

Topography?? May be relate it to age etc.?

Multi - modal 

Intergrate feedback 
Misunderstandings of meaning 

WHAT TO INCLUDE: 

Borges Short Story 

Using language to describe interculturality - metaphores etc. Irish literature etc 

Boundary - 

Emerging complexity - keep in complex, make it clear 


Catherine Bohm ?? practicioner 
listening for complexity - intercultural techniques / processes 

Intensify engagement 



Using language to describe interculturality - metaphores etc. Irish literature etc 

Boundary - 

Emerging complexity - keep in complex, make it clear 


Catherine Bohm ?? practicioner 
listening for complexity - intercultural techniques / processes 

Intensify engagement 

Sound + oral language
Richness of materials 
Understand my own positionality - to express curiosity in others 

Actor network theory - Latour - relationship between images - attentive to relationships
slide lecture 

Producing sensuous knowledge 
organise our world - past present and future 

Intersectionality 

Understanding objectification 

Mark McGowan - Crawling 
William L. Pope - Crawl - how do they compare 

ASSUMPTIONS about :

Onthology 
Epistemology 
Teliology 

Intercultural competencies 

'In this new environment, cultures observe
one another, asking the same question: how to coexist
and interact in a more and more interconnected world?' 

Four pillars of education: 

Learning to know
Learning to do 
Learning to live together 
Learning to be 

Cultural literacy 

Conceptual vocabulary : 

Culture : 
is that set of distinctive spiritual, material,
intellectual and emotional features of a society or social
group, encompassing all the ways of being in that
society; at a minimum, including art and literature,
lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions,
and beliefs 

Cultural Identity:
refers to those aspects of identity
shared by members of a culture that, taken as a set,
mark them as distinct from members of other cultures.

Cultural diversity
refers to the existence of a wide
variety of cultures in the world today

Values, beliefs, and attitudes 
key aspects of
culture, underlie all communication with others,
whether within a culture or between members of
diff erent cultures.

Intercultural describes what occurs when members
of two or more different cultural groups (of whatever
size, at whatever level) interact or influence one another 
in some fashion, whether in person or through
 various mediated forms.

Communication often said to be a message conveyed
from one person to another, more adequately should
be viewed as joint construction (or co-construction)
of meaning 

Communication
includes language as well as nonverbal
behavior, which includes everything from use of
sounds (paralanguage), movements (kinesics), space
(proxemics), and time (chronemics), to many aspects
of material culture (food, clothing, objects, visual design,
architecture) and can be understood as the active
aspect of culture.

Competence refers to having sufficient skill, ability, 
knowledge, or training to permit appropriate behavior,
whether words or actions, in a particular context

Communicative competence implies both understanding
and producing appropriate words and other
communication forms in ways that will make sense
not only to the speaker/actor but also to others

Language is both the generic term for the human
ability to turn sounds into speech as a form of communication,
and a specifi c term for the way in which
members of any one group speak to one another.

Dialogue is a form of communication (most often
linguistic, though not always) occurring when participants,
having their own perspectives, yet recognize
the existence of other, diff erent perspectives, remaining
open to learning about them.

Intercultural dialogue specifi cally refers to dialogues
occurring between members of diff erent cultural
groups.

Universality, refers to those elements common to all
cultures – such as having a language, or having values
and beliefs.

Intercultural citizenship refers to a new type of citizen,
the one required for the new global village

Intercultural competences refer to having adequate
relevant knowledge about particular cultures, as well
as general knowledge about the sorts of issues arising
when members of diff erent cultures interact, holding
receptive attitudes that encourage establishing and
maintaining contact with diverse others, as well as having
the skills required to draw upon both knowledge
and attitudes when interacting with others from different
cultures.

Intercultural literacy, which might be glossed as
all the knowledge and skills necessary to the practice
of intercultural competences, has become an essential
tool for modern life, parallel to the development
of information literacy, or media literacy

Intercultural responsibility builds on understandings
of intercultural competence by considering
the importance of related concepts such as intercultural
dialogue, ethics, religion (including interfaith
dialogue), and notions of citizenship

Reflexivity refers to the ability to step outside one’s
own experiences in order to refl ect consciously upon
them, considering what is happening, what it means,
and how to respond

Liquidity, the term proposed by Bauman (2000)
to describe the fl uid nature of modern life implies
change as a central element of human experience

Creativity is the most evenly distributed resource in the
world. It is, indeed, our ability to imagine that gives us the
resilience to adapt to diff erent ecosystems and to invent
“ways of living together”, the term used by the World
Commission on Culture and Development to describe
culture.

Cultural shifting refers to the cognitive and behavioral
capacity of an interculturally competent person to shift
or switch language, behavior, or gestures according to
his/her interlocutors and the larger context or situation11

Disposition, refers to the mind set progressively
acquired through primary (family) and secondary
(school) socialization.

Semantic availability, proposed by Hempel
(1965), describes the plasticity of ideas: when a concept
is dimly understood, but not clear; pre-emergent,
not yet fully formed; having a word at the tip
of one’s tongue, except that the word has not yet been invented in that language. (АУТСАЙДЕР) 

Conviviality is the term Illich provided for “autonomous
and creative intercourse among persons, and the
intercourse of persons with their environment… in
any society, as conviviality is reduced below a certain
level, no amount of industrial productivity can eff ectively
satisfy the needs it creates among society’s members”

Resilience is a key characteristic to consider when
addressing cultures in their handling of tradition and
modernity.

A point from last week - 

1. The onion - understanding multilyared identities 
2. relationships between materiality and immateriality / experience (re: Georgie) 
3. Workshop intercultural and transcultural with M 

Positionality 

Thninking about creative processes - 
breaking down 
building up 
using symbols to communicate meaning 
creative interpretation 

SPIRITUAL CULTURE - links to my work 

links to the custom I sent to Georgie 

Georgie - sommelier, theatre design - Trifon Zarezan merging the two together? 

What we are producing more of a Chimera than a mule 

Questions about mapping/positionality / brief Unit 2 

Mary Ann Frances - Mixed Forms 



Interdisciplinary / multimodal 

How are the differences being held?

Jacques Derrida 

The slash or the hyphen 

Critiqing dichotomies 

Intercultural 

Cultures living side by side and respecting each other's differences - Holy Cow (India), not holy in West 

Transcultural 

sharing common beliefs accross cultures - love of pets 

UNIT 2

Situationist International 

Essential to situationist theory was the concept of the spectacle, a unified critique of advanced capitalism of which a primary concern was the progressively increasing tendency towards the expression and mediation of social relations through images.[2] The situationists believed that the shift from individual expression through directly lived experiences, or the first-hand fulfillment of authentic desires, to individual expression by proxy through the exchange or consumption of commodities, or passive second-hand alienation, inflicted significant and far-reaching damage to the quality of human life for both individuals and society.[1] Another important concept of situationist theory was the primary means of counteracting the spectacle; the construction of situations, moments of life deliberately constructed for the purpose of reawakening and pursuing authentic desires, experiencing the feeling of life and adventure, and the liberation of everyday life.[1][3]

Unit 5
making meaning from archive 
using previous resources 
relentless blogging - use notes 
learning how to learn 

Unit 1 - focused on you (me) - me-search
Unit 2 - focused on someone else - interdependent focus - re-search 
citation - will cite visual + verbal sources
think about own learning, how is learning evolving 
transferrable skills you gained 
REBEL

UNIT 2 - Stuff of Cultures 

Submission 1 - map - me related to peers 
cognitive mapping / multi modal - images/text/sound/space - complex individuality 
being sensitive to the intersectionality of others 
Submission 2 - peers related to ?
presentation on one of cohorts, intercultural expression of their processes
assessment on how to present on peer - shining a light on the work of another 

sustaining cultural difference while creating something new 
crosscutting competencies in the context of sustainable development 
operationalising learning in own practice 

Reflect on learning 

Result needs to trace the cultural origins, and creating something new, not erase cultural origins but honour them 

hybrid - boar + sow  

Map - to reflect positionality 

Reflection from Marsha on Unit 1 

Milana  - storytelling, personal stories, 
Frances - sythensising where she is in the world 
M       - work as architect, self awareness 
Sarah   - analytical thinking - political - be more self reflective 
Georgie - analytical thinking - performer 
Lauryn  - fun 
Lilia   - fun? 
Khloe   - part-time art teacher, educator 

Reflect and quote interviews 

Milana – depth, articulation, analytical ability , Wiccan , ritual

Frances – calm analysis, contemplation, patience, communication

Jasmine – openness, quirkiness, questioning, hyper aware, hyper-sensitive – race,

M – emotion, thoughfullness, connection – space, architecture

Berry – depth of thought, visual fluency, calmness – space, techlology

Sarah – emotional connection to history, honest evaluation, academic ability – history

Khloe – killer thought process, honest searching of own way, willingness to share – identity

Georgie – honesty, analytical, poetic academic – history, Birmingham, race, biodiversity, folklore as anti-colonial

Lauryn – emotional honesty, self-care, adventurous spirit – following spirit, appreciating other culture

Clothing is an individual act, and a collective institution

Feedback reflection

UNIT 2

Keywords: interculturalism/transculturalism, intersectionality/positionality, experience/realia, materiality, mapping, strategic competency, systems thinking competency 

Interculturalism is a political movement that supports cross-cultural dialogue and challenging self-segregation tendencies within cultures.^[1] Interculturalism involves moving beyond mere passive acceptance of multiple cultures existing in a society and instead promotes dialogue and interaction between cultures.^[2] Interculturalism is often used to describe the set of relations between indigenous and western ideals, grounded in values of mutual respect.^[3]

Transculturalism 

The movement of ideas, influences, practices, and beliefs between cultures and the fusions that result when the ideas, influences, practices, and beliefs of different cultures come together in a specific place, text, or contact zone. The movement of cultures is not always reciprocal or voluntary—indeed, a large majority of what is deemed transcultural is the product of colonization, diaspora of different types, and exile. Some examples are the product of the necessary compromises subjugated cultures make in order to survive, as was the uptake of Catholicism by indigenous peoples in South America. As Michael Taussig demonstrates in The Devil and Commodity Fetishism (1983), the indigenous peoples could adopt Catholicism without having to give up completely on their own animistic beliefs because of the focus on spirit in Catholicism and the figure of the devil, which they could imbue with pantheistic traits. Other examples are more directly the result of globalization, which has brought about a widespread taste for the ‘cultural’, as for instance films like Bride and Prejudice (director Gurinder Chadha, 2005), which fuses Bollywood and Hollywood. The unequalness of the transcultural is exemplified by singer Paul Simon's borrowing of African music styles in the production of his bestselling album Graceland (1986)—the people he borrowed from received nothing for their contributions or their original ideas.

You could describe a mother's love for her child as transcultural, since it exists in all human cultures. Something that's true across all cultures of people, no matter how different, can be described with the adjective transcultural. The key to the word's meaning is found in the prefix trans, or "across" in Latin.

Coming back to this blog after a break. 

Lots to catch up on - 
The Unit 1 submission has been and gone, handed the film in on the 4th December.

Putting the film together was a mission, with lots of draughts and fresh starts. 
It was interesting to figure out how to tell the story of my work in a way that it made sense not only to the audience, but to me too. It was enourmously 

The feedback from the people I have shown it to has been generally positive apart from one friend saying that I appeared a bit stiff :-) TBH, This is exactly what I felt when looking at myself talking.  I found it hard to be relaxed in front of the camera, and it didn't help that I lost a front tooth right in the middle of recording the video, so I was trying to not open my mouth too much when I was speaking, contributing to my stiffness. 

My first draught was a bit more of a 'documentary', but after feedback from Marsha I had to take a different approach as it just wasnt putitng things in context enough. So I took the approach to look at the symbols that I have grown up around and tie them together in my work, which (I think) provided the necessary 

CoMPLEXITY 
CONTEXT 
CONNECTIVITY 


Some of my peers were confused about my first draught, the second did much better. 

I liked everyone's work, I love how people manage to really focus on small things to cotemplate. I seem to be a little bit more aboout broad strokes, but may be I need to step back and slow down a bit. 

(this was more feedback from Marsha) 

Needed to condiser SYSTEMS THINKING - for this project + going forward - systems help see the bigger picture 

Systems I focused on : Language + Fashion/clothing - how they are ifluenced by similar factors, such as society, politics, economies, etc., and are not static but are in constant motion, as are the systems that influence them. 


Fashion as a Language, 
the written and the visual language , how do they influence each other - food for thought, 
Systems thinkng - how are they influenced by other systems like - society, economy, media, technology etc. 

 


Interview with Khloe   04/01/25 

Did general questions 
then interview questions, 

failure with doing a full recording of our teams meeting 
transcription hassle 

enjoyed doing the editing of text, used written answers + transcript 

would like to make a good layout for it on in design, and use some of the images Khloe sent me 

did teams meeting and answered questions online, then combined the two, added pics that Khloe sent 

REFLECTION 

On reflection, my interview could have centered more on Khloe and her experiences/work, rather than filtering it though my own interests like clothing and fashion. Try to be more collaborative with it, and take a step back from controlling the narrative. 

Sound art

Luigi Russolo 1913 – pioneer

Marcel Duchamp – Erratum Musical (for three voices)

notes pulled from a hat

John Cage 4’33”

273 seconds – 273C – absolute zero

Maggi Payne

Kambanite, Sofia

Mike Tonkin + Anna Liu – Panopticon Tree

Harry Bertoia

Leaning – I don’t really understand waht it means! It’s a very ‘foreign’ word to me 🙂

It makes me confused.

May be it’s Active Listening?

Nicola Vasic – Zadar sea organ