Week 5 Documentation (Dates: 26/09-02/10)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
-Finish Neglected works story
-Write a reflection about self-doubt and "riding the waves"
-Posted a question to the creator's group. What is a ritual from another culture you have adopted into regular practice?
-Propose a time/date and location for the group to meet next week.
-Respond to creator's group prompt - question 1
-Work on Project Assignment 2
What was read or researched?
-La Frontera / Borderlands by Gloria Anzaldua
in Gloria Anzaldúa—and Beyond - By AnaLouise Keating
-Theorizing Space. Cybering Democracy: Public Space and the Internet by Saco D.
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
Writing a response for the first group question - interactive poem Why Wai?
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
-Writing- creating a response for creator's group. Writing reflection transformed into a poem.
-Creating more questions and prompts for the creator's group.
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
-Rewriting previous BOK assignments and Project Assignment 1.
-How to make sure all copyrights are accurate or accounted for?
-Where does my project need more specificity?
-What more do I need to know about the context of my chosen space? What is it exactly?
-Am I on track? . . .
Week 1 Documentation (Dates: 01/09-04/09) - Let's get it started!
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
Reading BOK 1 and reflecting and writing about it in the context of my research.
Understanding and describing the central imaginary significations for my context. But I still require practice understanding and identifying them and relating them to aspects of my research inquiry.
1st Coach meeting - Discussed steps for understanding the research process and questions to consider throughout the process.
What was read or researched?
-The Crisis of the Social Imaginary and Beyond by Bojana Cvejic and Ana Vzujanovic
-Public arts practices, events, or engagements in Phuket
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
-Reviewing the central imaginary significations for Phuket, updating and readdressing how they inform my inquiry.
Listing festivals and events helped me understand what is happening or what has happened around Phuket in the last few years. It assisted me in seeing which events I might be able to work with. It also helped me in playing around with the capabilities of the Research Catalogue as an archival/presentational method for my project work.
-Documenting a space in more detail. Understanding Phuket's art scene in more detail.
-Exploring and investigating a public space - Pahlai Pier.
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
-Note-taking and academic writing.
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
-Who is my intended audience?
-How am I showcasing my art?
How to organize art in public space to engage with one or two festivals coming up in 2023.
To Do:
Week 2 - Documentation (Dates: 05/09 - 11/09)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
-BOK 2 assignment (Finished, submitted)
-Investigating and experiencing possible spaces for the project
-Brainstorming different methods of engagement.
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
-Brainstorming ideas for stories inspired by one of my chosen public spaces.
What was read or researched?
-Summary of the Twelfth National Economic and Social Development Plan (2017-2021)
-Scheherezah's Children by Wendy B. Faris.
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
I took a reflective walk through one of the spaces I would like to work on and wrote down different notes, ideas, and connections I experienced while traveling through the space. I thought about others experiencing the space as a moving performance - like promenade theatre. Walking through the space made me think about "change" and the different forces that go into change.
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
-What are the roots (essence) of the project?
-Reason for choosing this space?
-Using Pop Up Phuket open mic as a strategy.
To do:
1. Upload work! Stories, plays, other writings, and ideas
2. Pictures and videos of space
3. Creating a folder to upload literary sources/research
4. Narrow down possible spaces to engage with
Week 3 - Documentation (Dates: 12/09 - 18/09)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
-Revisions of previous assignments BOK and Project Assignment 1(still in progress)
-Getting introduced to Research Catalogue - practice making an exposition.
What was read or researched?
-Musical Performances are (not) Artistic Research, by Marcel Cobussen
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
-Recording stories to document as audio files on R.C.
-Posting references and research to R.C.
- Start basic structure and "skeleton" of Exposition.
-Understanding my local context and different creative strategies used to work with current issues.
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
-Identifying my current artistic practices for the project: storytelling, writing, directing, facilitating/educating.
-Writing reflections about my intentions as an artist.
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
-Practice getting more precise and specific with social significations in Phuket to focus the research.
-What is my Point of View of public space?
-How are you and your art included in the key objectives?
-How are stories linked to the space?
To Do:
Week 11 - Documentation (Dates: 14/11 - 20/11)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
-Hiking and storytelling experiment # 2 @ Khao Rang
-Pop Up Phuket Open Mic
-New song for open mic
-Practice performing Why Wai? for open mic
-Complete BOK 5
-Start and complete BOK 6
What was read, experienced, or researched? (References)
-The Storytelling of Public Spaces: Rhetoric, Community and Social Change by Lindsay Kathryn Hamilton
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
-How to analyze the information gathered from experiment #2 so that it relates directly to my research.
-Reflecting on what technical aspects of the tour were considered and why. '
-Analyzing written or recorded stories to analyze the reception of using a literary technique to create a magical realist story.
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
-Rehearsing performances for Open Mic.
-Writing practice with storytelling postcards
-Directing and guiding the first tour.
-Facilitating and teaching the use of a literary technique of magical realism.
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
-What information can be analyzed from the touring experiments?
-What is my positioning around public space and how is it related to my practice or experiments?
Week 13 - Documentation (Dates: 28/11 - 04/12)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
What was read, experienced, or researched? (References)
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
To Do:
Week 15 - Documentation (Dates: 12/12 - 18/12)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
What was read, experienced, or researched? (References)
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
To Do:
Week 16 - Documentation
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
What was read, experienced, or researched? (References)
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
To Do:
Week 4 Documentation (Dates: 19/09-25/09)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
-Designing an artistic experiment for public space exploring storytelling and writing practice. (see project assignment 2)
What was read or researched?
-Daša Spasojevic, Ana Souto Galvan, ‘Creative practices and public engagement‘, Journal for Artistic Research, 13 (2017) https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/305334/305335/0/0
-Public performances as assemblages: contesting the narrative of Thailand’s 2010 crackdown by Penchan Phoborisut.
-Magical Thinking to Dispel Fear and Uncertainty - Craig J. Reynolds
-Theatre in Thailand Today by Surapone Virulrak
-Thai Music and Dance in the Heart of Bangkok’s Slums by Terry E. Miller
-Personification as a literary technique - https://daily.jstor.org/personification-is-your-friend-the-amazing-life-of-letters/
-https://daily.jstor.org/personification-is-your-friend-the-amazing-life-of-letters/
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
-Contacting other writers and performers based in Phuket to participate in my group storytelling experiment.
-Devising questions and writing prompts for the writer's group.
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What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
-Story writing.
-Brainstorming story ideas
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
To Do:
Week 8 - Documentation (Dates: 17/10 - 23/10)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
-Mini Mellemrum Workshop with Kitt Johnson
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
To Do:
Week 9 - Documentation (Dates: 31/10 - 06/11)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
-Get back into a regular and more effective working schedule for both study and work.
-Finish and submit BOK 4 (Working)
-Project Assignment 2 (Finished)
-Develop an interactive storytelling/writing tool.
What was read, experienced, or researched? (References)
-The Tourist Gaze by John Urry
-The Complexities of Experience: A Critical Tourist Response by Jo Ankor
-Cultural Tourism: Seeking Authenticity, Escaping into Fantasy, or Experiencing Reality by Brian S. Osborne and Jason F. Kovacs
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
-Researching more into Critical tourist texts and examples.
-Creating an interactive writing tool for touring and writing.
-Designing a touring-styled art engagement.
-Creating methods for engaging participation - poster, event posting, qr codes.
-Meeting with the owner of Hugo Hub to discuss future open mic and other art experiences in Phuket.
-Cataloguing different art spaces and experiences that exist currently in Phuket.
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
-Teaching practices for private lessons
-Reading new reference texts.
-Devising teachable methods to practice writing magical realist stories with participants.
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
-What kind of perimeters do I set for my work or practice? (This is what I'm doing with this topic/method)
To Do:
-Finish BOK 4 and start the next BOK assignments.
Week 10 - Documentation (Dates: 07/11 - 13/11)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
-First attempt at Experiment #2- Hiking and Storytelling
What was read, experienced, or researched? (References)
-More carrots than sticks: Antanas Mockus's civic culture policy in Bogota. New directions for youth development - by Cala Buendia
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
-Preparing for Experiment #2 - Hiking and Storytelling. Printing postcards and contacting friends and colleagues.
-Documenting experiments and reflecting on the experience and what worked or did not work in facilitating the tour.
-Creating a more detailed weekly project agenda.
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
-Writing practice with storytelling postcards
-Directing and guiding the first tour.
-Facilitating and teaching the use of a literary technique of magical realism.
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
-What strategies could effectively engage with more participants here in Phuket?
-How do I make what practices I utilize more visible in the research?
-How do I address my assumptions about public spaces in Phuket?
Week 14 - Documentation (Dates: 05/12 - 11/12)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
What was read, experienced, or researched? (References)
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
To Do:
Week 12 - Documentation (Dates: 21/11 - 27/11)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
What was read, experienced, or researched? (References)
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
To Do:
Week 7 - Documentation (Dates: 10/10 - 16/10)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
What was read, experienced, or researched? (References)
-The Study of Critical Tourism
-1001 Words: Fiction Against Death by Wendy B. Faris
-Art for a Sensitive City - Brigida Campbell
-Co-creation project with MOM
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
To Do:
Week 6 Documentation (Dates: 03/10-09/10)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week?
-Revise and submit Project Assignment #1
-Complete and submit BOK 4
-Complete and submit Project Assignment #2
-Conduct experiment for Project Assignment #2
-Write more Inform/Influence reflections about Research references.
-Try conducting a 2nd experiment - an experiential writing walk at space #1
What was read or researched?
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
-Continuing to work on and submit assignments for the program
-Rewriting my story about my neglected works and ideas.
-Reflection and documentation about Experiment #1
-Rewriting "Greetings" poem after sharing and receiving feedback.
-Specifying my project - What spaces/Why? What audience/why?
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
-My writing: rewriting story ideas after sharing. Developing the fantasy more in my writing - when is it used and why? Playing around with how we transform realism into speculation.
-As a director/facilitator: Contacted and coordinated with other artists about a group workshop. Proposed a question for the group to reflect on/consider and respond to. Organized a time and location to meet all together and lead a story exchange.
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
-It's a Tuesday and what are we doing? Making sure to take practical and active steps toward building a research project. What have you been doing and what steps are needed to get to what is next?
-What exactly are my key objectives?
What's next?
-Finesse the form of the story-share more. Give it a more formal structure to allow its repeatability. Create a story-share script that can be reused and edited when necessary. Prompt the group with another question and request to meet in 2 weeks- if not sooner on their own.
Create a group survey or page for others to reflect on and share their reactions to the process.
Week 19 - Documentation (Dates: 21/01 - 28/01)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
Relating my project more to the study of Critical tourism.
Redesigning postcards using Spectral Glossary
Developing writing prompts for magical realism based on spectra
Positioning why I am doing this project with tourists.
What was read, experienced, or researched? (References)
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
Reaching out to Thai theatre creators in Bangkok - Amitha and Sasapin for a conversation
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
Redesigning postcards
Practice writing about different memories of travel between spectra of C.T.
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
Are memories of travel actively engaged with the public space?
To Do:
Week 22 - Documentation (Dates: 13/02 - 19/02)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
What was read, experienced, or researched? (References)
BOK 12 reference
BOk 16 - Museo da Pessoa and Sense Memory Technology
Bok 17 - Tzanelli - Magical Realist Sociologies of B
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
To Do:
Week 17 - 18 Documentation (09-20/01/2023)
Bootcamp #2
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
What was read, experienced, or researched? (References)
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
To Do:
Week 20 - Documentation (Dates: 30/01 - 05/02)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
Working on P.A. 5 & BOK11
What was read, experienced, or researched? (References)
Research into Speculative Tourism
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
Devising prompts and questions around speculative tourism
Speculative touring ritual?
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
What are my aim and intended outcomes from this practice?
Which outcomes are byproducts and which are researched results?
To Do:
Week 21 - Documentation (Dates: 06/02 - 12/02)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
Developing new set of tours for Big Buddha
Personal writing practice with literary techniques - Exaggeration (7/2/23)
Propose writer group meeting
P.A.6 - Reframing research questions for experiments.
What was read, experienced, or researched? (References)
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
Compiling Thai vocabulary to describe my project to local stakeholders with limited English and open up possibilities for participation.
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
Writing practice with literary techniques of magical realism.
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
To Do:
Week 7 - Documentation (Dates: 10/10 - 16/10)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
What was read, experienced, or researched? (References)
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
To Do:
Week 7 - Documentation (Dates: 10/10 - 16/10)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
What was read, experienced, or researched? (References)
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
To Do:
Week 18 Documentation (Dates: 23/01/23 - 29/01/23)
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
-Contacting Amitha Amrada (Thai author/critic currently active in sharing the current art scenes in Thailand.) to discuss the arts scene in other regions of Thailand (Phuket) and ethical or appropriate choices I should be aware of as a foreigner practicing art in public space. (Sent messages through facebook and Linkin and did not receive a reply)
-Work on postcard designs with different ways to display stories through the different spectra of critical tourism devised by Dobriakov. (see examples here)
-Contact Hiba Masad and set up an online chat to discuss methods to engage local participants.
-Planning a new set of tours for one location.
-Restating my motivations for the project and focusing on reproducible methods instead of possible outcomes or aims.
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
-Practice redesigning the postcard as an instructional and interactive tool for writing attempting at more direct inquiry into tourist practices between different spectra of critical tourism.
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
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What's next?
Week 16-17 Documentation (Dates: 09/01/23 - 22/01/23)
Bootcamp #2
What was on the agenda to accomplish this week? What is finished or still in process?
What are you working on now, due to this week's research/experiments?
What aspects of your personal practice did you work on?
What questions arise from this week's investigation or work?
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What's next?