Panokoken Ping Pong
Playing with held position, motion creating randomness and the new positions determined by chance.
I explored the realms of the tension between chance, random events, and the eventual gathering of such fractal events to see what might emerge. Of course, randomness is somthing present in play and games, without it there would be no need to play, no tension or suspense. In game, it is about the act of doing it and possibiliy 'winning', rather than constructing something beautiful to look at over time.
Mycellium Bath
Created a web of objects that float in water. Thinking about the way in which mycellium communicates within itself in a forest, and what it's conversation could look like as a movement. Looking at how they are related, I like to observe how one object instigates movement and the others eventually follow, and the shapes drawn by the wool in between. Also this type of movement is created by the water slowing it down.
Blue Board Game
I played with the idea of an imagined game where shapes are formed - clusters, lines and so on from chess-like pegs. What I like about this is it brings to mind the imagined pathway drawn by the directional motion of an object INSERT QUOTE
"the highest purpose is to have no
purpose at all. This puts none in accord with nature and in her
manner of operations.”
David Rockeby, Tansforming Mirrors
Positioning Found Objects
Trying to create form out of the random items I had collected, I positioned them spatially in the constellations of "Pegasus" and "Casseopia". I like the idea of the random/futile finding its own name, when a suitable form or shape or family is found, and creating its own narritive, story.
It is well known that the spheres of play and the sacred are closely connected. Most of the games with which we are familiar derive from ancient sacred ceremonies, from divinatory practices and rituals, that once belonged, broadly speaking, to the religious sphere. The girotondo was originally a marriage rite; playing with a ball reproduces the struggle of the gods for possession of the sun; games of chance derive from oracular practices; the spinning top and the chessboard were instruments of divination. In analyzing the relationship between games and rites, Emile Benveniste shows that play not only derives from the sphere of the sacred but also in some ways represents its overturning.”
In Praise of Profanation
“There is in each of us an empty and inaccessible centre where all our actions
originate.”
Arjen Mulder
I find this a curious thing to point out. What is determining the origin of montions before they are 'random' or 'formed', if the "I" is illusion?
"Cage defined a set of rules and then used the tossing of
coins to choose a spec composition form the range of possibilities allowed by these
rules. Cage’s intent in reducing the control he had over the final result cen be
inferred from his suggestions"
David Rockeby on John Cage's "indeterminacy" concept.
Inspired by a Calder work where a weight hits different bottles I made my own experiment, playing with teh chance of the movement. I see this a kind of kinetic constellation.
Kinetic Constellations
Through gathering objects which resemeble some type of characteristic of a constellation, and then assembling them, I also became aware that I am attracted to the movement of the form. This made me aware again of the stellar constellations which, only to us appear in a fixed state due to our way of percieving time. What is often forgotten is that these forms are constatly in flux, meaning one star's correspndance to another in distance, electromagnetic fields, perspective is constantly changing. I wanted to use this to create layer/multi-spatial form.
(of human bodies)
“A continuous process of exchange of matter is more elemental than
what we traditionally view as our ‘stable’ bodies”
Reading by Osmosis, Nature Interprets Us,
Semâ Bekirović
