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 Transcript of Maja's talk about [[:/future_fabulators/foam_at_adhocracy|FoAM's work with foresight and futures]] Transcript of Maja's talk about [[:/future_fabulators/foam_at_adhocracy|FoAM's work with foresight and futures]]
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 +Again people were served veges and were welcome to play with Florence as she danced about infront of the projector and distributed toys to hands and laps. Miranda left to run around the hall. Most visitors were fascinated by the beautiful images from foam and intrigued by Maja's talk. Whilst the afternoon ws again cut short by children's needs and the schedule for Adhocracy, a half a dozen people stayed to ask about foam and Future forecasting. Many others left deep in contemplation.
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 +A very warm thank you to Nik and Maja for their early morning start and the very informative and extremely well received talk about Future Fabulators. 
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 +==== Notes from 20140622 ====
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 +Sarah Neville & Family with foam
 +Speculative Culture / Weather Lore
 +Adhocracy Residency Report 2014
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 +Our time in residence at the Waterside Workers Hall for Adhocracy was not only creatively fruitful but also enjoyable and fulfilling. As a family we took up residence in the foyer, a place of arrival, networking and critical banter. Here we cooked, played, chatted, shared stories, met people and posed questions. 
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 +We questioned ourselves about how we would really manage in a future of climate chaos, post economic and social collapse, as a family. The answer being not clear other than our enthusiastic ability to try to sustain ourselves with the food taken from our garden at home and our reliance on our neighbors to swap goods and services. In that we must acknowledge the warm support of the Vitalstatistix team who assisted us with all elements of production including playing with our children. Lara Tor and Emma O Neill were particularly wonderful with their assistance. It was also to our advantage to be situated downstairs to PVI Collective who involved them selves in our eco tasks, painted weather pictures with Miranda, laughed with Florence and enjoyed our food. Then there was Rosie Dennis’ residency group who made us feel at home in respect to their likeminded inquiry and shared interests.
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 +The most revealing part of our residency was the format of the artist talks. The idea of family in residence initially sounded cosy and custom built for us across all our planned activities. However, what this meant was that we would be delivering presentations in what we had set up as our lounge room with children playing, food cooking and the demands of parenthood leading us to multi-task with visitors observing us. From this point of exposure and feelings of vulnerability we were very keen to share our research and our ambitions for this project. This all went just as we had hoped, but the reality was that as an artist it was a new and somewhat confronting format. No longer could the talk take focus, the stuff of life came crashing in to better illustrate and sound out what we were really talking about. This residency really highlighted a change in artistic practice as well as allowed us to extend our artistic ideas and in doing so was invaluable. 
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 +In respect to extending and developing our artistic content there was also a huge shift for me as an artist. In the past I have enjoyed an artistic practice based on research and reflection and extension and simplification of critical questions. A large percentage of this work was done alone, stationary and in silence over many hours in one sitting. Later I would take my ideas to collaborators in a studio and challenge them with highly planned tasks that I wanted to be followed precisely with the hope of achieving a new set of more complicated questions to once again unravel, simplify and then cast into a new set of tasks. Shifting my arts practice to working with the family changes everything. There is no time to sink into personal reflection and deepen research and ideas through contemplation. Everything is in action, everything is about what you are doing in the moment and everything is directly in negotiation and cooperation with each other. The wealth of knowledge from the greater world drops away in the face of the immediate needs, emotions and response of those you are with. A United Nations study about climate change could not hold focus during the hour Miranda painted a series of rainbows because she worries that in the future there will not be enough rainbows. Florence’s hunger for honey with her vegetable stir fry leads us to question how we would live in a world without bees? Then how would we pollinate our crops? And then back to how can we entertain the children with dress ups and dances themed on bees? The process is therefore in continuous momentum. Our response and consequently our actions are because of the immediate emotions of those around us rather than studied questions evolving from more abstract sources.
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 +Now, reflecting on this residency we feel that as a family we could propose this type of structure as again. I would like to suggest that Vitalstatistix look at offering family in residence opportunities to artists in the future. I would be happy to share more information about our processes and mentor others who want to follow down this path. We learnt a lot and are looking forward to reconsidering the idea as a cultural event as we deepen and extend our investigations into Speculative Culture and Weather Lore. We have begun a conversation with Arts House about a follow up residency, have opportunities to contribute to festivals in Europe and look forward to being involved in Vitalstatistix’ Climate Century projects over the coming year. We are very fortunate that foam introduced us to this format of Family in Residence and as our children grow this structure expands, develops and challenges more each time. 
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