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
Critical Response Process – Liz Lerman
Step 1 –
What was meaningful? Communicate what the experience was to the artist
Step 2 –
Chance for the artist to pose questions to specific issues
(learning best when you’re not defensive)
Step 3 –
Responders pose neutral questions to the artist
Step 4 –
permissioned opinions – Responders can say – I have an opinion about X – would you like to hear it – yes or no ?
Marshall Rosenberg
Non Violent Communication
What is alive in you? What are you feeling?
What would make your life more wonderful? What are your unmet needs?
A very interesting way to implement into giving and receiving feedback, which is sometimes difficult with students. Difficult to stay impartial and difficult for them to not get defensive.
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Project development
Finally bought two typewriters – one Bulgarian and one English, and attempted to use them
They are both working fine, the Bulgarian one needs a ribbon change – another task to put on the list
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I typed up a page as a Fall Festival of Failure exercise
It’s a good task to do re: failure as it will take a while to type without mistakes , therefore failing everytime I type.
This is a great little nudge to embrace imperfection and allow myself to to break away from the need for doing things ‘ properly’, or at least ‘not making mistakes’, ‘getting things wrong’, which leads to embarassment (a very strong emotion for me, possibly rooted in childhood,( being judged and judging others – Mother/grandmother, intergenerational trauma) – leading to clothing –
being properly dressed is moral
improperly dressed is immoral. There is something wrong with you if you are not presented properly. You are mentally unstable.
What would the neighbours think? What would people say?
Какво ще кажат хората?
Хората – The People – an audience – a mass
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REFLECTION
I din’t enjoy the session today. I am not too sure why. I felt disengaged, perhaps misunderstood and ignored and therefore unwilling to take part. Perhaps the format is getting a bit tiring and distant. Finding it hard to have a discussion and may be veer off for a little bit. Finding some of the course mates a bit draining. But perhaps that is sometihng to explore and be self reflective about – WHY am I finding it draining? May be because of their lack of meaningful contribution? Fixations? Narcissism? Are there qualities that I deplore in myself????
It is hard to engage in the class via chat and online in general – I felt ignored today as 3 of my posts weren’t read out and then I felt inhibited and insecure to speak. Sometimes when there is no direct physical feedback etc. there’s detachement and speaking on a topic is a bit of an out-of-body experience…. There is so much dialogue going on while others are speaking, and so much possibility for distraction. I am guilty of browsing various sites while the convetsation is going on, and perhaps doing some shopping.
Great to learn about feedback and how to structure it, the various techniques which could be implemented in class, and generally working to a system with a clear structure and objectives.
I may have a bit of ‘intellectual fatigue and find this sitting around dissecting things and being so bloody serious about feels embarrassing. And entitled. So more embarassing.
Also somehow I decided that Marsha doesn’t like me very much. Perhaps I am feeling insecure.
I feel like I need to do sometihng completely unrelated, like listening to loud music, and dancing.