The ideas that have transpired from our process to date are endless, all relevant and insightful yet vast. ‘Manufacturing the uncanny’ has indeed become our motto/tagline. I’ve been thinking of ways to string all these together, and into the new setting of the piece that we have seemed to agree on. We all want to begin our making as quickly and successfully as possible. Now we need to consider that our ideas bank is full, there’s no real structure or foundation to piece it all together. We’ve worked backwards which I think is still good! But when we make could it be useful for us to plant a structure even if for a week to try a new way of working?
What came to mind for me was the idea of repression, from uncanny. I know what stuck with us that inspired our last sharing was; “…something that should remain hidden being brought to light.” For this, I reflected on a lot of our ideas and they stem from dreams to surrealism, make up, light and sound designs to different acting and dancing techniques. However we have not set a basis or structure to what these elements can be devised to/on. I propose an idea of structure in terms of making and would like to put forward the idea of establishing maybe 4-6 emotions or feelings or representations of a human that are commonly ‘repressed’ for example; anger, alcoholism, sexuality etc. And we could aim to bring these to light, using our ideas?
These different examples could be represented and installed in different rooms of the college, using all the ideas we have to implement.
This may help translate my idea:
http://michael-catley.suite101.com/dream-interpretation-sigmund-freud-a150180
This talks about a dreamer, dreaming of a dog peeling a banana. The article then shows the analysis stages of Freud’s theory to breakdown what this could mean. This resulted in suggesting that the dreamer could be angry and fear losing a desired partner to a friend? Sounds crazy but this is the theory of our main inspiration; FREUD. Mr Uncanny himself. Now manufacturing the uncanny could come about by us working backwards and creating the symbolic images themselves by us starting with a meaning. E.G: We start with ‘fear of losing someone’, use all research, ideas, workshops, analysis, make up, light, sound, acting, dance and create….A gorilla eating an apple, whilst rowing…??? So……..we are being uncanny by using the interpretation of dreams in analysing in reverse to create our own symbolisms!!!!
What came to mind for me was the idea of repression, from uncanny. I know what stuck with us that inspired our last sharing was; “…something that should remain hidden being brought to light.” For this, I reflected on a lot of our ideas and they stem from dreams to surrealism, make up, light and sound designs to different acting and dancing techniques. However we have not set a basis or structure to what these elements can be devised to/on. I propose an idea of structure in terms of making and would like to put forward the idea of establishing maybe 4-6 emotions or feelings or representations of a human that are commonly ‘repressed’ for example; anger, alcoholism, sexuality etc. And we could aim to bring these to light, using our ideas?
These different examples could be represented and installed in different rooms of the college, using all the ideas we have to implement.
This may help translate my idea:
http://michael-catley.suite101.com/dream-interpretation-sigmund-freud-a150180
This talks about a dreamer, dreaming of a dog peeling a banana. The article then shows the analysis stages of Freud’s theory to breakdown what this could mean. This resulted in suggesting that the dreamer could be angry and fear losing a desired partner to a friend? Sounds crazy but this is the theory of our main inspiration; FREUD. Mr Uncanny himself. Now manufacturing the uncanny could come about by us working backwards and creating the symbolic images themselves by us starting with a meaning. E.G: We start with ‘fear of losing someone’, use all research, ideas, workshops, analysis, make up, light, sound, acting, dance and create….A gorilla eating an apple, whilst rowing…??? So……..we are being uncanny by using the interpretation of dreams in analysing in reverse to create our own symbolisms!!!!
As per usual I have plenty more to say…so when we met again you’ll be getting an earful.
This idea isn’t a new tangent for more ideas it is simply an example of a structure to follow and/or theme to base said ideas upon.
What I’d like to suggest if this helps, is for us all to stop thinking about all the ideas we could incorporate in regards to our disciplines and what we’d like to include. But to maybe think of what structures we could use to set the piece and be a tangible foundation to what we incorporate our ideas.
My idea is just one and doesn’t necessarily mean it will work, but from reflecting I personally feel we need a basis like this, I’m sure you’ve all got amazing and most probably better suggestions for a structure so please share!
I hope I haven’t confused anyone, I just do not want our focus to be blurry and not coherent with each other for when we need to buckle down and make and experiment. Our ideas are complex and great but we need to reflect this in our practice, like the tutors have said.
P.S. To save time; is it possible if we all consider coming in on the Monday for a full day of discussion? I know we are not scheduled but a whole day of initial discussion before could really save us wasting times during “experiment hours”.
I feel like the nutty professor, the creative side of my brain is in overdrive and I am losing all common sense and grammar. Apologies if the sentences make absolutely no sense.
ReplyDeleteI can't come in the first Monday back. Being tattoo'd. We probably should be using Mondays from Tues onwards tho x
ReplyDeleteI love the idea though. For sure one too bare in mind x
ReplyDeleteYay for Kelly . You are so clever :) I think everything you said is terrific!! Starting not this week but next i think doing Mondays is a good plan.
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