PART I: THINKING MATERIALLY
Choose a material-based work from a collection of cultural objects, art and/or design, as shown and discussed in class. Make sure it is an object that you can have access to in its current natural habitat, not a representation. Go in groups preferably, but choose a work for yourself individually.
Locate the work, and visit it, for precisely one hour, as discussed in class. Look at it, take notes, draw, record, in any way you like, but allow yourself no distractions. No conversations with others, no chats, no phone, no screen, no further researching, no other people, no conversations, etc. simply register what you see, as well as any questions that might pop up.
Afterwards, research the wider material context of the work, including date, maker, background, materials, practices, use, life span, historical context, political background, larger cultural circumstances, etc, and work all of this information out into short fragments of text and/or visuals.
Work the notes from steps 2 and 3 out into a single collection of narrative/essayistic fragments using text and/or visuals.
Related to your chosen source text on speculation, add a speculative element to your fragments.
PART II: COLLECTIVE FABRICATION
As a group, choose from the individual object texts (with material context and speculative element) which one(s) to work out collectively.
As a group, based on each individual’s contribution, work the chosen fragments out into a single speculative story. Use your own existing narrative fragments wherever relevant. Use visuals, graphics, etc. wherever helpful.
As a group, use the Thinking Material-reader to decide what kind of material thinking is closest to your collective fabrication.
DELIVERABLE:
Individual abstract to the assignment with the following parameters (max. 1000 words):
– full reference using MLA to your chosen object;
– summary of the most interesting element from the material context of your chosen object;
– full reference using MLA to a chosen text on speculation;
– reflection on the most interesting concept you found in the text on speculation;
– (group) reflection on one or more kinds of “thinking material”, as mentioned in the reader, relevant for your collective fabrication;
– (group) reflection on the kind of speculation in the collective fabrication;
– individual reflection on your contribution to the collective fabrication.
Collective fabrication (approximately 1500 words).
Deadline for uploading to Osiris: Friday 1 April 23:59

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What is the text about?






Who is in the text?


Where and when does the text take place?


How does the text relate to you?

1. When I think of care..


2. Where is my body


3.Who is my body


4. What does my body remember

I think of friends, family, deep conversations, dedication, home, etc.


I am in Europe. In art school, far from home. Far from reality, but maybe living the actual reality...


Someone who wants to be remembered. Someone who dreams too much, maybe not enough. My body is the opposite of my mind...


Everything that makes me me and nothing that made me me.

MY GROUP:

BODY & MIND

- Marinda
- Valentina
- Margot
- Nicole

CONNECTIONS:

- PERSONAL STORİES
- MENTALITY
- STORYTELLING
- GENETICS
- THE CONTRAST BETWEEN BODY & MIND

BRAINSTORMING:

- HOMOPHILY
- UNCONSCIOUS ASSOCIATIONS
- THE GLASSES IDEA
- THE BLIND SPOT
- THE BUBBLE
- SNOWGLOBE
- OBJECTS FROM OUR CHILDHOOD/PAST
- POSTER
- WEBSITE
- BOOKLET

UNRAVEL TEXT:

"You move through me like rain / heard / from another country. / Yes, you have a country.")

this part tells me that this text is about memories we pass on generationally. Although we are very much like our parents/relatives considering they raised us and passed their world views on to us, we are our own person. We create our own country (our own life, opinions, personality, etc.)



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"Look, my eyes are not your eyes."
My father taught me everything he knows about different types of paint, art and technique. He passed all his knowledge on to me. We both paint with the same techniques. However our styles and pieces are nothing alike. He has his own eyes. I have my own eyes, and they see the world differently.

GLASSES

WHO AM I?

"SNOWGLOBE"

HIGHSCHOOL

MIND ( I AM THE RIGHT SIDE)

BUBBLE

THE DIFFERENT SIDES OF MY PERSONALITY

SWEET DREAMS

“I’m trapped inside a bubble,
memorized each piece of this puzzle.
Now I want to escape sooner,
come and take me to the future.”

FIBER

”Don’t bother trying to figure out who a person really is .
One person carries more than one personality,
one personality carries more than a million thoughts”

MY LIFE AS A COLLAGE

WAYS OF ARCHIVING:

TAKEN FROM MARINDA'S PAGE!

MY BUBBLE:

THE 6 PEOPLE I CHOSE TO REPRESENT WHAT HAS CREATED MY BUBBLE:

KEYWORD: COMMUNITY