"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
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