Project for Artday 2nd July 2005

coordinators and initiators: Teresa & Rosangela of R2001

 

"Project for Artday 2nd july 2005

Title: 'a sense of place'

( coordinators: Teresa & Rosangela)

teresatorreseca@sapo.pt


Dear members:
Rosangela and I are planning a project for 2005 artday and we would like
to know if anyone in the list is interested in participate.


The idea is broadly to create a digital 'collage' with all the
participants contributions , starting from an image of the planet
referring the latitude and longitude of the places where participants'
artists live, and opening links to each one of the works. The works would
focus on:

Medium: photo.; film; digital pictures, etc. Can include both text and
recorded voice/music/sound

Theme: What do we feel in the place we live; how can we express it ? our
inner thoughts about our place, past, present and future , feelings
related to the landscape, its relationship with us."

A sense of place - rationale Project for Artday 2nd july 2005
Title: ‘a sense of place’

Medium: Digital collage : Flash file including photo.; film; digital pictures, etc. Can include both text and recorded voice/music/sound


Theme: What do we feel in the place we live; how can we express it ? Our inner thoughts about our place, past, present and future , feelings related to the landscape, its relationship with us .


Is art a way of experience? Can we artists and people in general live experiences through the arts; can we experiment processes within cultures? How can we enrich our culture with values of other cultures and ways of experience the arts? I suppose we can, we can re-create things in order to build a path towards particular and universal understanding of the world.

With this project arts are experienced as a xamantic ritual where everyone can join and bring their own experience of their places. It will be an open work, with no authorship and no end product, artists will continuously provide works which reflect their sense of place; their senses and their reflections about the bit of earth where they live. This will be a way to look to the other in a pos-colonial perspective. The digital collage is may be the best medium to illustrate such ideas. In a simple Macromedia flash we will be able to include different ways of seeing; feeling and thinking about a place. Our fears, our hopes, our visions of space, time and light will be there, everyone in the wide information space of internet will be able to see, listen and interact , experience the amazing ritual of free expression of arts. Arts that are unstable as Ascott put it : ‘shifting and in flux; an art which parallels life, not through representation or narrative, but in its processes of emergence, uncertainty and transformation; an art which favours the ontology of becoming, rather than the assertion of being…’ (Ascott, 1999, p. 68).


dear friends and partners at a sense of place project ( for artday 2005)  
Rosangela fixed a mailbox to receive the files for a sense of place at  
senseofplace@spymac.com   teresa