One cup = one completed show
Collection of one object recording the passing of time, and a career.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/arts/television/david-letterman-reflects-on-33-years-in-late-night-television.html
Tuesday, 25 September 2018
Saturday, 22 September 2018
Summer Research - Theories, Narrative Exposure Therapy
'Only through an externalisation of the feelings, abuse and distrust, will true healing occur'
'As narratives are an integrative part of every culture, NET is a culturally universal short-term intervention for the reduction of traumatic stress symptoms...NET is a form of exposure that encourages traumatised survivors to tell their detailed life history chronologically to a skilled councillor or psychotherapist who will record it, read it back, and assist the survivor with the task of integrating fragmented traumatic memories into a coherent narrative'
- Proves the importance and benefits of externalising life events, whether traumatic or otherwise
- Sees life in narrative structure, recording chronologically as a method of understanding and processing experiences
M, Schauer, F, Neuner, T, Elbert (20050, Narrative Exposure Therapy: A Short-Term Intervention for Traumatic Stress Disorders after War, Terror, or Torture, Hogrefe & Huber, USA
'As narratives are an integrative part of every culture, NET is a culturally universal short-term intervention for the reduction of traumatic stress symptoms...NET is a form of exposure that encourages traumatised survivors to tell their detailed life history chronologically to a skilled councillor or psychotherapist who will record it, read it back, and assist the survivor with the task of integrating fragmented traumatic memories into a coherent narrative'
- Proves the importance and benefits of externalising life events, whether traumatic or otherwise
- Sees life in narrative structure, recording chronologically as a method of understanding and processing experiences
M, Schauer, F, Neuner, T, Elbert (20050, Narrative Exposure Therapy: A Short-Term Intervention for Traumatic Stress Disorders after War, Terror, or Torture, Hogrefe & Huber, USA
Summer Research - Ephemera
http://www.ephemerasociety.org/def.html
'Maurice Rickards, the famous authority on ephemera and noted scholar, suggested that for collectors of printed material, the word refers to “minor transient documents of everyday life". The use of the word “transient” implies that once these printed items had served their intended function, they were “generally expected to be discarded.”'
'Ephemera may be primary evidence documenting an historical event'
'Ephemera may be a way in which a particular social attitude of the time is evinced'
'Ephemera, as artifacts of history, inevitably contains facts, prejudices, and other aspects(such as language, art and social organization) reflecting their particular time and place'
'Ephemera is revered not only for its content, but also for the beauty of its presentation'
- Collecting ephemera is documenting life, the nature of them both fleeting and impermanent
- It serves as records of past and present that would otherwise get lost and discarded
- Each item can preserve a number of different information i.e. economic climate, travel habits, cultural icons etc
'Maurice Rickards, the famous authority on ephemera and noted scholar, suggested that for collectors of printed material, the word refers to “minor transient documents of everyday life". The use of the word “transient” implies that once these printed items had served their intended function, they were “generally expected to be discarded.”'
'Ephemera may be primary evidence documenting an historical event'
'Ephemera may be a way in which a particular social attitude of the time is evinced'
'Ephemera, as artifacts of history, inevitably contains facts, prejudices, and other aspects(such as language, art and social organization) reflecting their particular time and place'
'Ephemera is revered not only for its content, but also for the beauty of its presentation'
- Collecting ephemera is documenting life, the nature of them both fleeting and impermanent
- It serves as records of past and present that would otherwise get lost and discarded
- Each item can preserve a number of different information i.e. economic climate, travel habits, cultural icons etc
Summer Research - Bobby Puleo, Ephemera Collector
Bobby Puleo - Clues About The Rest Of The World from Tobin Yelland on Vimeo.
'Certain people would look at it and be like it's a fuck up that somebody tossed. I'll look at it and be like that is everyday life taken out of context, and that in itself makes it interesting or beautiful or art'
- Grouping found objects, transforming them into something new through a collection
'Certain people would look at it and be like it's a fuck up that somebody tossed. I'll look at it and be like that is everyday life taken out of context, and that in itself makes it interesting or beautiful or art'
- Grouping found objects, transforming them into something new through a collection
Friday, 21 September 2018
Summer Research - Mass Observation
- Social research organisation founded 1937 to create an 'anthropology of ourselves
- Recruited a team of observers and investigators to go out into the public and observe and record every day people's behaviours, conversations and lives
- Had National Panel of Diarists who kept regular diaries or responded to a number of open-ended questionnaires on a variety of topics and subject matters
- Generated and archived people's history up until 1949, the archive being held at University of Sussex
Projects such as Mass Observation are crucial in preserving social and cultural history. They offer an invaluable resource for learning about our society in the past, how it has changed over time. Without it, a lot of the information would have been lost.
Summer Research - Liev Schreiber & Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
- Collecting objects from family history
- Three dimensional documentation- Not about the aesthetics of the objects but their connections
- Where drawing and writing 'captures' life's history, the objects are life's history
- The objects are made into capsules of the past, their functions no longer as intended
‘Just as the function of dreams is to ensure the continuity of sleep, objects ensure the continuity of life’ - Jean Baudrillard
Summer Research - On Kawara, I Got Up/Date Paintings/I am Still Alive
- Mundanity and simplicity
- Connecting with people & sharing, social aspect
- Seemingly unimportant
- Non intimate and objective
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