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 by Sarah Neville, Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney by Sarah Neville, Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney
  
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 Along with my family I was in residence at foam for three weeks in October 2013, firstly at Castello Parenzana near the legendary town of Motovun in Istria and then amidst the urban landscape of Brussels. In company with my five month old daughter Florence and together with Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney, I investigated ancient and contemporary myths formed from making meaning of natural disaster. My husband Matthew and four year old daughter Miranda contributed to the project remotely from home in the Adelaide Hills in Australia. Miranda shared her understanding of the natural world through creative storytelling and painting and Matthew participated by responding to the concepts emerging at Castello Parenzana through an exploration of sound. Along with my family I was in residence at foam for three weeks in October 2013, firstly at Castello Parenzana near the legendary town of Motovun in Istria and then amidst the urban landscape of Brussels. In company with my five month old daughter Florence and together with Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney, I investigated ancient and contemporary myths formed from making meaning of natural disaster. My husband Matthew and four year old daughter Miranda contributed to the project remotely from home in the Adelaide Hills in Australia. Miranda shared her understanding of the natural world through creative storytelling and painting and Matthew participated by responding to the concepts emerging at Castello Parenzana through an exploration of sound.
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 This project has been on slow boil for me for several years. I have struggled to contextualise my research within the contemporary dance or theatre worlds and feel that this project has been finally seeded in suitably fertile ground within the cultural laboratory of foam. I have enjoyed a couple of successful collaborations with Nik Gaffney in Adelaide in the late 90's and with this project it seemed like the right time to pick up the collaborative thread. My husband Matt also collaborated with Nik in the past and was looking forward to participating in the residency in Croatia along with Miranda. However, when state funding fell through our family had to ecomimise and we decided that Florence and I would travel to Europe and Matt and Miranda would contribute to the project remotely via daily skype meetings and email.  This project has been on slow boil for me for several years. I have struggled to contextualise my research within the contemporary dance or theatre worlds and feel that this project has been finally seeded in suitably fertile ground within the cultural laboratory of foam. I have enjoyed a couple of successful collaborations with Nik Gaffney in Adelaide in the late 90's and with this project it seemed like the right time to pick up the collaborative thread. My husband Matt also collaborated with Nik in the past and was looking forward to participating in the residency in Croatia along with Miranda. However, when state funding fell through our family had to ecomimise and we decided that Florence and I would travel to Europe and Matt and Miranda would contribute to the project remotely via daily skype meetings and email. 
  
-The area of research stretches over the fields of history, psychology and anthropology. Artistic forms put into play include photography, story telling, poetics and theatrical improvised movement.+The area of research stretches over the fields of history, psychology, botany and anthropology. Artistic forms put into play include photography, story telling, poetics and theatrical improvised movement.
      
 ==== Problem/Aim ==== ==== Problem/Aim ====
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   *The aim of the project is to work with  a concept and series of methodologies that can be extended in multi-platform processes and outcomes. Potential outcomes might include; live performance, enacted scenarios, a photographic study, a community workshop and a lecture.    *The aim of the project is to work with  a concept and series of methodologies that can be extended in multi-platform processes and outcomes. Potential outcomes might include; live performance, enacted scenarios, a photographic study, a community workshop and a lecture. 
  
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 ==== 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 classical mythology to weather lore. 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 classical mythology to weather lore.
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-    Environment -> Uncertainty; 
-    Environment -> "Out of Control" -> Disasters -> Premonitions -> Adaptation; 
-    Environment -> Emotions; 
-    Environment -> Stories; 
-    "Growing out of links with the environment" -> Environment; 
-    Stories -> "Sense making" -> Environment; 
-    "Sense making" -> Visualisation; 
-    "Sense making" -> "Supernatural in a natural environment"; 
-    Stories -> "Contemporary Mythology" -> "Pop culture" -> "Everyday Life" -> "How people see things" -> "Stories people tell themselves" -> "Interviews/questionnaires?"; 
-    "Contemporary Mythology" -> "Science and technology"; 
-    Stories -> "Science Fiction" -> "Speculative Fiction" -> "Eco-disaster movies" -> Environment; 
-    "Science Fiction" -> "Science and technology"; 
-    Stories -> "Growing out of links with the environment" -> Culture; 
-    Stories -> Folk -> Myths -> Environment; 
-    Myths -> Creation Myths; 
-    Creation Myths -> "Footnotes, commentary"; 
-    Folk -> Wisdom -> Aphorisms 
-    Folk -> Superstitions -> "Old wives' tales" -> Emotions; 
-    Stories -> Emotions; 
-    Emotions -> Uncertainty; 
-    Emotions -> Fear; 
-    "Growing out of links with the environment" -> "What can be transported" -> "Legitimacy of a thread of Myths" -> "geography"; 
-    "Legitimacy of a thread of Myths" -> ?; 
-    "What can be transported" -> "EU - AU"; 
-    "What can be transported" -> "Continuity in the framing?"; 
-    "What can be transported" -> "footnotes, commentary"; 
-    "What can be transported" -> "Emotions" 
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   *Considering how design fiction might construct a futurist narrative around the staged photographs   *Considering how design fiction might construct a futurist narrative around the staged photographs
  
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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 Kuzmanovic, 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.   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 Kuzmanovic, 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 content. 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 content.
  
-In Linz at Time's Up, 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.+**After Parenzana** 
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 +  * In Linz at Time's Up, 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. 
  
-In Brussels I engaged in a discussion with Rasa Alksnyte about possible future developments of the project in respect to performance/ dance/ theatre and participatory performance. +  * In Brussels I engaged in a discussion with Rasa Alksnyte about possible future developments of the project in respect to performance/ dance/ theatre and participatory performance. 
  
 ==== Solution/Results ==== ==== Solution/Results ====
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   * Narrowing the field of interest from mythology to weather lore   * Narrowing the field of interest from mythology to weather lore
   * Establishing a constructive working methodology around family life   * Establishing a constructive working methodology around family life
 +  * Considering Design Fiction as a possible aesthetic
   * Locating possible structures to work with communities on weather lore   * Locating possible structures to work with communities on weather lore
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 +//Tradition must be a springboard to the future, not an easy chair for resting.//
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 ==== Discussion ==== ==== Discussion ====
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 __Live performance__ __Live performance__
  
-Work with performers to create scenarios based on historic proverbs/ future proverbs+Back in Adelaide I am keen to work with performers to create scenarios based on historic proverbs/ future proverbs. Photographs like the ones we took at Parenzana may be a starting point. I would like to try looking at creating theatrical moments that are styalised and that might transcend time and or place and juxtapose more natural non performative scenes that are specifically representative of now. I am quite clear that this does not need to resolve into a 'complete work' or play, but rather the resolution of moments might take on a form of its own.
  
 __Community Cultural development__ __Community Cultural development__
  
-Use the forecasting tools from Future Fabulators to work with regional communities in South Australia, particularly Mt Gambier. +I have been interested in working in Mt Gambier on the theme of the threat of natural disaster for some time now. I grew up in Mt Gambier, at the foot of an active volcano so I am quite aware of how this experience has led me to the ideas I am now chasing down for this project. The essence is in how to create stories to dispel innate fear connected to survival. I am considering utilising the forecasting tools from Future Fabulators workshop to connect with regional communities in South Australia, particularly Mt Gambier. I would also like to design a discussion around " The Sun Is Different Now" and let this lead to another layer of storytelling about the environment.
-Create a discussion around " The Sun Is Different Now"+
  
 __Photographic study/ film development__ __Photographic study/ film development__
  
-Create photographs that include The Child, The Mother, The Storyteller in another environment. +In respect to investigating the potential of geographic shift, I would like to create photographs that include The Child, The Mother, The Storyteller in another environment.This might be an opportunity to work further with the ideas for a recorded story and fictive narration.I consider this study to go hand in hand with the research into old and new proverbs.
-Work with recorded storytelling +
-Select proverbs+
  
 __Presentation__ __Presentation__
  
-Follow up research leads and calibrate an argument resulting from the various lines of related sub-interests.+Before working on all of the forms above I feel that it would be beneficial to follow up all research leads from the residency and calibrate an argument resulting from the various lines of related sub-interests with visual illustrations to explain future development. This presentation would aid me to seek further support for the project, clarify my ideas and be a stand alone outcome to share with the public 
  
 __Possible Finance__ __Possible Finance__
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   * Arts SA Professional Development Grant   * Arts SA Professional Development Grant
   * Arts SA Project assistance   * Arts SA Project assistance
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 __Workshops__ __Workshops__
  
-  Assist foam lead a forecasting workshop in Adelaide perhaps in connection with The Festival of Ideas +   We discussed potential developments from the residency, Nik suggested there may be oportunities to involve people in scenario building workshops in Adelaide (esp. "festival of ideas") 
-  Host a workshop for foam to introduce theatrical improvisation tools into their Physical Narratives+   Nik and Maja would be interested in working with people in Adelaide who have improvisation skills (performance, theatrical or political) to further develop tools and training for prehearsals.  
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 __Family/ Work balance__ __Family/ Work balance__
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 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, whether that be formalized in an artistic collaboration or the creative stuff of flexible parenting.  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, whether that be formalized in an artistic collaboration or the creative stuff of flexible parenting. 
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 ==== References ==== ==== References ====
  
-    * //literature used in the research (books, magazines, journalsURLs...)// +    * //Levi StraussMyth and Meaning// 
-    * //media used in the research (film, audiovisual media, photographs...)// +    * http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-22/un-climate-chief-warns-of-nsw-27doom-and-gloom27/5036814 
-    //visual/sonic/tactile material generated in the research to be archived at [[FoAM]]//+ 
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 +    Environment -> Uncertainty; 
 +    Environment -> "Out of Control" -> Disasters -> Premonitions -> Adaptation; 
 +    Environment -> Emotions; 
 +    Environment -> Stories; 
 +    "Growing out of links with the environment" -> Environment; 
 +    Stories -> "Sense making" -> Environment; 
 +    "Sense making" -> Visualisation; 
 +    "Sense making" -> "Supernatural in a natural environment"; 
 +    Stories -> "Contemporary Mythology" -> "Pop culture" -> "Everyday Life" -> "How people see things" -> "Stories people tell themselves" -> "Interviews/questionnaires?"; 
 +    "Contemporary Mythology" -> "Science and technology"; 
 +    Stories -> "Science Fiction" -> "Speculative Fiction" -> "Eco-disaster movies" -> Environment; 
 +    "Science Fiction" -> "Science and technology"; 
 +    Stories -> "Growing out of links with the environment" -> Culture; 
 +    Stories -> Folk -> Myths -> Environment; 
 +    Myths -> Creation Myths; 
 +    Creation Myths -> "Footnotes, commentary"; 
 +    Folk -> Wisdom -> Aphorisms 
 +    Folk -> Superstitions -> "Old wives' tales" -> Emotions; 
 +    Stories -> Emotions; 
 +    Emotions -> Uncertainty; 
 +    Emotions -> Fear; 
 +    "Growing out of links with the environment" -> "What can be transported" -> "Legitimacy of a thread of Myths" -> "geography"; 
 +    "Legitimacy of a thread of Myths" -> ?; 
 +    "What can be transported" -> "EU - AU"; 
 +    "What can be transported" -> "Continuity in the framing?"; 
 +    "What can be transported" -> "footnotes, commentary"; 
 +    "What can be transported" -> "Emotions" 
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