RESEARCH RELATIONS

Sympoiesis
Threading, weaving as a pedagogical method for non-hierarchical collective storytelling

Watch from 9.45 (scène from the film 'Polleke' based on a series of children's books)
Immediately had to think of this scène from one of my favorite childhood movies (and books) ‘Polleke’ while thinking about educational/pedagogical relationships. Power relations, setting examples, a code of conduct and the freedom to play with the ‘rules’.

Poor translation (sorry!)

Teacher:
Alright, dear boys and girls.
When you finish school you will find a profession. I became a teacher for example.
But you can also become something else, a general officer for example, to name something important. Today I want to know from all of you what you would like to become. Borri!
Borri: I want to become a general officer.
Teacher: Oké. Utman?
Utman: Me too, general officer.
Teacher: Naja?
Naja: General officer, sir.
Teacher: Mimoen?
Mimoen: General officer, sir.
Teacher: I think you misunderstood, look, you can choose something else.
That is allowed! Polleke?
Polleke: A poët, sir.

Friend: We agreed that everybody would name the same profession, right?
Polleke: I forgot.

Abstract to introduce the thematics of the film: Polleke is a young girl, who lives with her mother in a flat. She doesn’t see her father Spiek often since he lives on the streets and is a drug addict. She has a boyfriend Mimoen, but their difference in culture and religion make it very difficult to stay friends. To make it even more confusing, Polleke’s mother falls in love with her teacher, they even have plans to marry.

Google docs as a pedagogical tool to meet with fellow colorful cursors.

an urgent need to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.
- a field guide to getting lost by rebecca solnit.

keywords: balance, group dynamics, change, other

The relationship between the youngsters (competitive and yet still forming a basis for a community)
The big bird takes the attention of all small birds - changes the dynamics of the group.
The small birds have power over the big bird, but are also dependent on the big bird. (power line)
Getting rid of the big bird becomes the reason for the small birds to lose their feathers.
The big bird laughs but still takes care of the flock.

The new amateur - "a method that invited learners to improvise in the gap between an expert role and a talent imitable by anyone at all.” (p.1, Thumlert)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kurt_Thumlert/publication/311589064_Affordances_of_Equality_Ranciere_Emerging_Media_and_the_New_Amateur/links/5911c8270f7e9b70f486010a/Affordances-of-Equality-Ranciere-Emerging-Media-and-the-New-Amateur.pdf

"The horizon screams an eagle pouncing
And from America there comes a hummingbird
From China sinuous peehees
Who have only one wing and who fly in couples
And here's a dove immaculate spirit
Escorted by lyre-bird and shimmery peacock"

Santiago Sierra

10 INCH LINE SHAVED ON THE HEADS OF TWO JUNKIES WHO RECEIVED A SHOT OF HEROIN AS PAYMENT

302 Fortaleza Street. San Juan de Puerto Rico. October 2000

San Juan de Puerto Rico is home to a great number of heroin addicts who can be seen begging for money in the streets of the tourist area of Old San Juan. Two of them were shaved with a 10 inch line on their heads. Each was given a shot of heroin as payment.

Parental Survival Group - Honey For Kids

A fast reaction to the challenges of engaging your children during corona crisis

we are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human. the spell of the sensuous by david abram

The Five Obstructions

The former student (Lars von Trier) challenges his former teacher (Jorgen Leth) to remake 'The Perfect Human' five times, each time with a different obstruction/rule, set by Von Trier.

Rules in in creative processes - Rules as an expression of power

Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out every day: massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without destroying each other, without hating each other to death? As a matter of fact, they do hate each other, but they are not equal to their hatred. And it is this mediocrity, this impotence which saves society, which assures its continuance, its stability. Occasionally some shock occurs by which our instincts profit; but afterwards we go on looking each other in the face as if nothing had happened, cohabiting without too obviously tearing each other to shreds. Order is restored, a ferocious calm as dreadful, ultimately, as the frenzy which had interrupted it.

What are the ways that community practice can become a space to intentionally practice the futures we long for?

Assembling individuals to build relationships for the purposes of dreaming, healing and resistance.

Who can research?

Why is it that those to whom research can be so transformative are not part of these processes and are in fact actively excluded?

What are the ways that collective imagining can create alternative spaces for contesting power and advocating for new forms of social relation?

What role does art education play in social and political activity?


Amal Khalaf/Elizabeth Graham

Take a breath for the day you have had so far.
And take a breath for this precious moment, which cannot be recreated.

Now, another for the day and night coming.

Here you are, in the cycle between the past and the future, choosing to spend your miraculous time in the exploration of how humans, especially those seeking to grow liberation and justice, can learn from the world around us how to best collaborate, how to shape change.

- adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy

I am listening now with all of my senses, as if the whole whole universe might exist just to teach me more about love. I listen to strangers, I listen to random invitations, I listen to criticisms, I listen to my body, I listen to my creativity and to artists who inspire me. I listen to elders, I listen to my dreams and the books I am reading. I notice that the more I pay attention, the more I see order, clear messages, patterns, and invitations in the small and seemingly random things that happen in my life.

In all these ways I meditate on love.

Santiago Sierra

100 CM LINE TATTOOED ON FOUR PEOPLE

El Gallo Arte Contemporaneo. Salamanca. Spain. December 2000

Four prostitutes addicted to heroin were hired for the price of a shot of heroin to give their consent to be tattoed. Normally, they charge 2000 to 3000 pesetas, between 15 and 17 dollars, for fellatio, while the price of a shot of heroin is around 12,000 pesetas, about 67 dollars.

In 1968 Ian Wilson made his final sculpture.

Since then, he has explored the idea of oral communication as an art form.

https://www.metropolism.com/nl/features/40972_ian_wilson_1940_2020_in_memoriam (in Dutch)

palle nielsen model 1968

marina abramovic ulay rest energy 1980

Our tutors assessing our papers:

THIS LITTLE ART - KATE BRIGGS

Labanotation as documentation

script vs documentation