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==== Parenzana Residency Notes ==== | ==== Parenzana Residency Notes ==== | ||
- | notes during the residency at Castelletto Parenzana (on the former TPC train line) > http:// | + | Notes during the residency at Castelletto Parenzana (on the former TPC train line) -> http:// |
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+ | Photos: https:// | ||
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+ | From the 30th of September to the 9th of October 2013, Sarah Neville, Florence Thomas, Nik Gaffney and Maja Kuzmanovic inhabit the Castello Parenzana, close to the legendary town of Motovun in Istria, Croatia. Matt and Miranda Thomas take part in the residency as well, remotely from the Adelaide Hills. Although the landscape in Istrian and South Australian hills might share similarities of climate and topography, the flora and fauna, stories and cultures that grew from them are quite different. Inspired and informed by the landscape, the weather and the (hi)stories of both places, as well as our own experiences as inhabitants and migrants, we're looking into the relationships between storytelling and the environment, | ||
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+ | With warm thanks to Dorina Vlakancic, for her support and welcoming this residency to Castello Parenzana; Danica Kuzmanovic, for sharing her social network with us, helping with planning and logistics, as well as a wonderful moral support; Goran Kuzmanovic and his friends for allowing us to borrow an all-terrain pram, much needed for a well-travelled baby in residence! | ||
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+ | Supported by the Flemish Authorities, | ||
====Notes from 20131002 ==== | ====Notes from 20131002 ==== | ||
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- | Emotions -> Stories -> Folk -> Myths; | + | |
- | Emotions -> Uncertainty; | + | |
Environment -> Uncertainty; | Environment -> Uncertainty; | ||
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+ | Stories -> Folk -> Myths -> Environment; | ||
+ | Myths -> Creation Myths; | ||
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+ | Folk -> Wisdom -> Aphorisms | ||
+ | Folk -> Superstitions -> "Old wives' tales" -> Emotions; | ||
+ | Stories -> Emotions; | ||
+ | Emotions -> Uncertainty; | ||
+ | Emotions -> Fear; | ||
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+ | "What can be transported" | ||
+ | "What can be transported" | ||
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====Notes from 20131003 ==== | ====Notes from 20131003 ==== | ||
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+ | A few things to explore: | ||
+ | * reviewing documentation of the early beginnings of the project in Sweden and Australia | ||
+ | * Miranda: volcano is a rock with a hole in it, there is lava and you can die from it. | ||
+ | * "In the heat" - collapsibility of a body, fragility, no escape | ||
+ | * Dialogues ( Demeter & Persephone - harshness of content, gentleness of voices, related to natural and cultural disasters | ||
+ | * staging photos around the house with emerging characters (storyteller, | ||
+ | * vocal exercise working with keywords from local legends and/or emerging from the process | ||
+ | * Tasks for Matt: sound explorations responding to conceptual developments in Castelletto | ||
+ | * Tasks for Miranda: How does this story continue: "There once was a giant, who built a town on a hill to hide a fairy..." | ||
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+ | Exploring the region: | ||
+ | * [[http:// | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
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+ | Questions to explore: | ||
+ | * How can stories be presented? | ||
+ | * What are people telling themselves? | ||
+ | * How can a story be dislocated and become something else? | ||
+ | * What stories are told to understand the weather: how do historical myths relate to contemporary ones, e.g. sci-fi movies about ecological disasters, where stories are only told when the weather becomes extreme... what happens to all the other stories about weather in daily life? | ||
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+ | Creation myths in contrast to aphorisms and sayings about the weather and other natural phenomena, such as: | ||
+ | * Miranda' | ||
+ | * the "red sunset" | ||
+ | * the tribe escaping a tsunami by listening to an ancient myth and running up a mountain after recognising warning signs as predicted in the story | ||
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+ | Aphorisms include a heuristic approach to the world, they deal with probabilities rather than dogmas. What happens to age old sayings that might be less in tune with current climate chaos (when red sunsets don't only mean nice weather the next day, but could signal unexpected fires and other calamities). Do we need new annotations or re-interpretations of these texts to reflect our time? | ||
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+ | Form -> "A house in the hills" -> " | ||
+ | "A house" -> "A house in the hills"; | ||
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+ | Form -> " | ||
+ | "How you understand (new) surroundings" | ||
+ | Migration -> " | ||
+ | Form -> Annotations -> " | ||
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+ | ====Notes from 20131004 ==== | ||
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+ | **The Storyteller and the child** | ||
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+ | Characters: | ||
+ | * storyteller | ||
+ | * baby | ||
+ | * mother (the same as storyteller) | ||
+ | * (photographer) | ||
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+ | The stories we're looking at could be expressions of emotions, such as the threat of the body being destroyed. They could also be seen as a way for a storyteller to garden or forage the inner and outer landscape. As with oral storytelling, | ||
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+ | Task: Improvise the moments in the space, as improvised staging including the characters | ||
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+ | //The nature of rain is always the same but it makes thorns grow in the desert and flowers in the garden. | Edible and poisonous plants// (notes at https:// | ||
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+ | {{> | ||
+ | // No one knows what rolls behind the mountain // | ||
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+ | //All flowers of the future are in the seed of the present// | ||
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+ | //Furious storm passes quickly // | ||
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+ | === Weather lore === | ||
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+ | * Weather lore | ||
+ | * [[wp> | ||
+ | * http:// | ||
+ | * rain & mushrooms | ||
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+ | * sayings, aphorisms, proverbs | ||
+ | * things we tell each other as short stories ("the sun has changed…" | ||
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+ | * The moon and the weather may change together, But a change of the moon, will not change the weather. | ||
+ | * Evening red and morning grey, two sure signs of one fine day. | ||
+ | * When the forest murmurs and the mountain roars, Then close your windows and shut your doors. | ||
+ | * When leaves show their undersides, be very sure that rain betides. | ||
+ | * If bees stay at home, rain will soon come, If they flay away, fine will be the day. | ||
+ | * Dust rising in dry weather is a sign of approaching change. | ||
+ | * When smoke hovers close to the ground, there will be a weather change. | ||
+ | * Red sky at night, Shepard’s delight; Red sky in morning, Shepard take warning. | ||
+ | * When ants travel in a straight line, expect rain; when they scatter, expect fair weather. | ||
+ | * [[various_aphorisms]] | ||
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+ | Who are the characters and what are they doing in contemporary weather lore? | ||
+ | * the fable: more natural disasters due to human interference in the environment (there are some scientific explanations, | ||
+ | * different views on the relationship between humans and the biosphere: in some stories humans are seen as 'the monsters', | ||
+ | * superstitions: | ||
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+ | === Divination and invocation in storytelling === | ||
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+ | Divination: descriptive, | ||
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+ | Invocation: active, giving tools to help you deal with things, or even to bring about a different world (e.g. the onwards and upwards of limitless growth); "the summoning of a deity or the supernatural: | ||
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+ | === More on Form... === | ||
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+ | What is the shape of stories? | ||
+ | * Australian yarn (nasal voice, and… and… and… no… no… and then…) | ||
+ | * warnings (short, abrupt, distant, factual…) | ||
+ | * bed time stories (soothing, quiet…) | ||
+ | * guslari oral tradition: https:// | ||
+ | * Fortune telling (intense, personalised, | ||
+ | * … | ||
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+ | === Oral - Written - Digital stories === | ||
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+ | * Should we focus on myths and legends or ' | ||
+ | * difference in importance and structure of myths in oral culture (encapsulating news from other villages, blurry edges between myth and lore), to written culture (this is our shared, fixed history), to digital culture (similar to oral culture - episodic, chopped up, repurposed…) | ||
+ | * Reference: Walter Ong's Orality and Literacy: http:// | ||
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+ | === Tasks === | ||
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+ | * stage photos as a starting point to encapsulate a saying; capturing moments as they are developing. | ||
+ | * write a story with the same starting point (the village, the house, one of the staged photos…) and incorporate themes and questions from discussions. | ||
+ | * (while its raining) come up with a series of proverbs/ | ||
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+ | * Finding historical and contemporary lore about observing animals as early warning systems for weather changes and natural disasters | ||
+ | * To discuss: cemetery of discarded stories (and dead media) | ||
+ | * Community conversation on "the sun is different" | ||
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+ | **Myths and Natural Early Warning Systems** | ||
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+ | ====Notes from 20131005 ==== | ||
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+ | === Conversation with Matt === | ||
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+ | * Human reactions to controlled environment (such as a city, http:// | ||
+ | * Weatherlore is an interesting direction, it seems more malleable than myths | ||
+ | * Evolutionary psychology - how much of our worldview is based on primitive responses? to research: meaning making in humans, in contrast to animals, who primarily respond to stimuli without trying to make sense out of it | ||
+ | * e.g difference between a bird sensing EM field in contrast to the human responses " | ||
+ | * human responses to stimuli: physical (tend to be dampened nowadays), mental (meaning making) | ||
+ | * sonic experiment - pre-disaster changes in EM field | ||
+ | * physical responses to the environment: | ||
+ | * (non)awareness of environmental changes: e.g. bushfire on an unusually hot day out of bushfire season in Adelaide Hills: seasons are more in flux, but people tend not to pay attention to signals from the environment. if the laws change to make an out-of-season fire instigation into criminal negligence - proof of acceptance of climate change. | ||
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+ | **Making Meaning** | ||
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+ | * How do humans make meaning of events that happen to them? | ||
+ | * The role of meaning in human thinking http:// | ||
+ | * Levi-Strauss postulates that myths serve to mediate conflicting or dualistic elements of society and life.The symbolic mediation in myths offers inspiration for culture and culture members to heal, flourish, or accept their reality.http:// | ||
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+ | ====Notes from 20131006==== | ||
+ | * staged photgraphs as design fiction and/or design noir. moments of mixed familiarity and unease (e.g. eating pizza in groznjan, machine readable objects, green sky, densisty of air, prevalence of monocles) | ||
+ | * decay and half-life of aphorisms. persistence of relevance in proverbs. graveyard of false lore, forgotten aphorisms. | ||
+ | * illustrations for contemporary proverbs and the future perspectives which make them appear quaint | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
+ | * [[various aphorisms]] | ||
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+ | ====Notes from 20131007==== | ||
+ | * further exploration and illustration of [[various aphorisms]] | ||
+ | * visit to Groznjan to check on persistent [[plot_world_context|plots]]... | ||
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+ | //Tradition must be a springboard to the future, not an easy chair for resting.// | ||
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+ | //She who foretells the future lies, even if she tells the truth// | ||
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+ | **Design Fiction** | ||
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+ | Bruce Stirling: Design fiction is the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief about change. That’s the best definition we’ve come up with. The important word there is diegetic. It means you’re thinking very seriously about potential objects and services and trying to get people to concentrate on those rather than entire worlds or political trends or geopolitical strategies. It’s not a kind of fiction. It’s a kind of design. It tells worlds rather than stories. http:// | ||
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+ | ====Notes from 20131008==== | ||
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+ | * aphorisms, determinism and [[prediction markets]] | ||
+ | * two DRAFT narrative video sketches using the same photographic material (shot by Nik) and weatherlore about changing weather. One about a child and her family of weathermakers and the other about a mutant able to commune with the biosphere: | ||
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+ | ====Notes from 20131009==== | ||
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+ | drive from Motovun -> Linz | ||
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+ | Future Fabulators workshop process and possible process to work with various communities to locate feelings about current changes in weather. | ||
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+ | ==== residency report ==== | ||
+ | * see [[research report parenzana]] | ||