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based on notes from [[parenzana residency notes]] | based on notes from [[parenzana residency notes]] | ||
+ | by Sarah Neville | ||
==== Context ==== | ==== Context ==== | ||
- | * Sarah Neville and family | + | Along with my family |
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- | | + | This project has been on slow boil for me for several years. |
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+ | The area of research stretches over the fields of history, psychology and anthropology. Artistic forms put into play include photography, | ||
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- | * //concise summary of the problem domain/ | + | This project is based on ancient world fables |
- | * // | + | Nowadays with climate change on the political agenda and summers becoming hotter, there is a real fear emerging about the future |
- | * //expected outcomes | + | I am extremely interested in the sublevel panic that pulses through current media hinting at a dire future |
- | * //if the actual outcomes are different than the expected outcome, the reasons | + | |
+ | *The aim of the residency was to consolidate | ||
+ | *The aim of the project is to work with a concept and series of methodologies that can be extended | ||
==== Methods ==== | ==== Methods ==== | ||
+ | This residency was situated in a house amongst vineyards in an old part of Istria. Florence and I were among friends and we are all highly motivated individuals. Therefore we began an informal discussion that developed over a week, with ideas becoming more focused over time. Simultaneously we continued to expand our scope of research as we shared our knowledge and experience and chased down leads. Whilst not consulting literature or media we firstly located our own knowledge and feelings about climate change and the stories that have and could emerge to make meaning of this. From this we narrowed the area of interest from clasical mythology to weather lore. | ||
- | * //concise description of the way the research | + | In line with my research |
- | * // | + | |
+ | Tasks included: | ||
+ | *Nik focusing on highlighting the ' | ||
+ | *Staging photographs around the gardens with the characters of The storyteller, | ||
+ | *Researching weather lore | ||
+ | *Noting proverbs about weather | ||
+ | *Putting the weather lore proverbs with the pictures as captions | ||
+ | *Aiming to create contemporary proverbs about the weather | ||
+ | *Recording a storytelling soundscape | ||
+ | *Creating storyboard movies to narrate stories based around weather lore | ||
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+ | This residency was structured to include my whole family so my husband Matt contributed a sound score and our daughter Miranda sent drawings and stories in response to the creative content generated. Foam founders and collaborators Nik Gaffney and Maja Kumonovic, not only contributed creative ideas and creative content but also picked up the ‘hard to do with a baby in your arms’ tasks like note taking and documenting. | ||
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+ | Working around the sleep, feed, play schedule of a baby meant that the methodology needed to be flexible and not fixed in time. Whilst this meant that ideas and tasks were sometimes left unfinished until a later time, everything remained in focus and most tasks were completed.The method of informal discussion allowed for the consideration of Florence but it is also a way of eliciting a personal and felt response to the range of ideas. By listening and questioning others and ourselves we managed to narrow the field of interest and begin to play with creative output. | ||
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+ | Lastly, I took part in the workshops for the Future Fabulators kick off meeting in Linz. By participating I was able to consider how the workshop might be adapted to work with communities in Australia. | ||
==== Solution/ | ==== Solution/ | ||
+ | Outcomes included: | ||
- | * //concise description of the actual outcomes | + | * Narrowing |
+ | * Establishing a constructive working methodology around family life | ||
+ | * Locating possible structures to work with communities on weather lore | ||
==== Discussion ==== | ==== Discussion ==== | ||
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* //comments on the response of the public (if applicable)// | * //comments on the response of the public (if applicable)// | ||
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+ | __Family/ Work balance__ | ||
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+ | In my experience working in the arts cannot by design be a selfish pursuit, so there has not been a giant shift in perspective in my life now that I am responsible for a baby. Just as in the art world, where teams of people work together, the responsibility of caring for Florence is not mine alone. My husband is informed and involved in everything Florence and I do and his opinion along with the point of view of Florence’s Grandparents and wider family is always considered. My work has always depended on working closely with other artists, whilst simultaneously working one or two full-time jobs outside of the arts to support my practice. It goes without saying that if I didn’t always have a sense of others in the world then collectives would fail, partnerships dissolve and collaborations would bomb. Often my paid work has included caring for other people’s children, so having Florence with me as I work is a familiar challenge and joy.All in all I am arriving home with a creative vision dreamed up, a new network of futurists met, a very creative collaborative experience and a world of possibilities to develop my work through avenues opened in Europe. For Florence I hope she has gained a sense of herself in a larger world, a tolerance of travel and somewhere deep in her conscience the knowledge that the world is full of creative and strong personalities who can envisage a fantastic future. For Miranda I hope she learns that no matter where I travel and for how long, I’ll always come back (and perhaps next time she can come with me). More importantly I know Miranda realizes that wherever I am, my life includes her and I cherish her involvement in my work. For Matt, we both know that creative collaboration is part of the glue of our relationship, | ||
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