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* What are people telling themselves? | * What are people telling themselves? | ||
* How can a story be dislocated and becoming something else? | * How can a story be dislocated and becoming something else? | ||
- | * What stories are told to understand the weather | + | * 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? |
Creation myths in contrast to aphorisms and sayings about the weather and other natural phenomena, such as: | Creation myths in contrast to aphorisms and sayings about the weather and other natural phenomena, such as: | ||
- | * 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 | ||
* Miranda' | * Miranda' | ||
* the "red sunset" | * 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 often mean nice weather...). Do we need new annotations or re-interpretations of these texts to reflect our time? | 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 often mean nice weather...). Do we need new annotations or re-interpretations of these texts to reflect our time? | ||
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+ | **The Storyteller and the child** | ||
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+ | Characters: | ||
+ | * storyteller | ||
+ | * baby | ||
+ | * mother (the same as storyteller) | ||
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+ | The stories can be expressions of emotions, such as the threat of the body being destroyed, or a storyteller gardening or foraging the landscape, or warnings (weather, poisons…), | ||
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+ | Task: Improvise the moments in the space, as improvised staging including the characters | ||
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+ | //edible and poisonous plants// (notes at https:// | ||
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+ | //stories, storytelling and plant mythology// | ||
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+ | === Weather lore === | ||
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* Weather lore | * Weather lore | ||
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* http:// | * http:// | ||
* rain & mushrooms | * 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. | ||
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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) | ||
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+ | **Myths and Natural Early Warning Systems** | ||
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