Monday 18 January 2010

10 Dec & 14 Jan - Lab Discussion

In our last two meetings, we continued to narrow our areas of interest, and I have combined our notes, thoughts and discussion here:

PLAY
Allowing experimentation, dialogue and exploration of the concept. Drawing on writing by Steve Connor and projects by Space Hijackers, Flash Mobs, Association of Atomic Astronauts.

Can take any or all of the following forms/formats within a public space:
1. Game - group activities remembered from childhood (sleeping lions, bulldog, tag, charades, races - wheelbarrow or otherwise, telephone or the formation of a new type of game). Possibility for a public to be incorporated into the game.
2. Event - spontaneous event such as a dance party/dance intervention (i.e. flash mobs, snowball) involving communication, interaction and/or dialogue with a public or audience. The audience would get involved in the event with us.
3. Market - (re)creation of a marketplace or carnival or festival in which tangible items are traded/bartered or sold to a public, including food, tea/coffee, desserts, ice cream, etc. This also includes the "sale" or transfer of non-tangible items such as secrets, jokes, fortunes, kisses as well as gift-giving/presentation of items without a charge to a public. The market could take place in one or more locations that we will determine or can take the form of a mobile market place (traveling food truck or cart) that can interface with different areas of/in London.
4. Presentation - this would be a planned performance or event directed toward an audience. We could invite people to attend or we could invite and organize a public within a given space to attend our performance. The performance can take any form: of a game, a dance event or possibly the organization of others to do the performing under our guidance/direction.

Possible aims/goals/things to consider:
1. To create of a space for play and potentiality; for ourselves and/or others
2. To blur boundaries between public spaces within London associated with either work or a bounded idea of "rest/relaxation" and play
3. To create an interruption
4. To engage with one or several communities DYNAMICALLY (may need to define dynamism for our project)
5. Develop an understanding of our how activity has produced/encouraged/developed a transformation of a space
6. Define who our audience could and should be
7. To document the process from its inception to realization through video, still photography, this blog and potentially other formats
8. Determine if we should use a concrete space, a public space, all spaces via mobility or no space; the WHY and the HOW and its relationship to transformation

Resources:
Dessert trucks: http://www.desserttruck.com/
Los Angeles food trucks: http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-foodtrucks22-2009jul22,0,7542552.story
Flash mobs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob
Tino Sehgal's artwork: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tino_Sehgal
Steve Connor essays
Association of Atomic Astronauts: NEED LINK OR INFO...perhaps from Rachel?

Next Steps:
Meet at 1pm on 21 January at Southbank Centre upstairs balcony area
Bring ideas or tools needed for a game and we will PLAY!




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