Friday, 4 May 2012

group tutorial 30 April

First things first, DB - hope you feeling better mate. Pedro - you OK? Give us a sign.

Feedback from our presentation from David Price was good.We conveyed well how we worked together as a group, and used the presentation as a way of trying to resolve our outcome.
    
Katy and I has useful discussion with DP re. resolving our project outcome:

  • We both voiced some unease with where the project is right now. 
  • Feels maybe too complex - trying to include too many elements? Outcome could look confused and messy - participation/ performance drawing/ a game/ drawing instructions/use of the window.
  • Katy and I asked - is it feasible to liberate ourselves from some of these former ideas? Simplify the project. DP advised yes this is perfectly acceptable, if based on a process of research and testing and elimination. DP suggested e.g. that the participation issue has consistently caused us problems, so it would be fine to drop it.
  • We thought about one element of our research that has been consistent from the beginning - the use of the window.
  • Is the window a metaphor for our group's process... its qualities are transparency/ nothingness....it is a lens for looking...a frame on the world....a surface for reflecting.   
  • Have we been looking but not seeing?
  • DP thought a conceptual work using our group process and our final indecision could be simple and effective. Surrender to our indecision as the outcome.   
  • We thought of e.g. creating a frame on the window with tape as a means of inviting people to look, really look.  
  • DP suggested some simple written text, or random words in paper that makes reference to our group process e.g. printed and left in a pile for visitors to take/ read.    
  • ...or some simple text written on the glass by each of us about the indecision being the resolution of this project. 
  • I like the idea of freezing the project in this way, freezing our discomfort and inviting others to share this. This feels like a way of resolving the process.  
  • Mmmm...the more I think on it the more I like it. .
  • Thoughts?
Tracey

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