The Breadcrumb - performative co-creation space within different Masters.
This concept draws on the idea of leaving traces to other Masters life students, to get to know each other work, and to funnily inspire different cohorts inside the Masters. It is a relational space, where different cohorts commit to receive an artistic offering from another different Masters cohort, and to freely work on it during a time of two/three weeks. The students receive a work of art, together with a prompt from the previous group, and they decide on how to create another free-of-expectations artistic piece. After that, they will leave their piece to the next group accompanied by another task and so on and so on. Every cohort of the Masters will have at least one occasion during the year to receive The Breadcrumb and to add an artistic creation to it. We believe The Breadcrumb to enhance not only collaboration in between students, but also to create a fun, interactive space where people can create avoid of judgement or expectations from the academic environment. It will also enhance more collaboration and contact in between students belonging to same cohorts. We want to enhance interdisciplinary collaborations and interpersonal relationships, while leaving traces of the students through different years, as we are going to document all the artistic pieces that are created and have everything on a Research Catalogue page that has the name of the project. We perceive as a traveling exhibition, a connecting performative mycelium that runs through and thanks to the creative life juices of the different Masters at Fontys.
Very very free free - a big book where to share the Masters life with other colleagues.
This book is conceived to be an analogue manifestation of the life of different Masters people. It is conceived as a traveling personal archive that will be in the hands of different Masters cohorts during different times, in order for people to have the possibility to communicate with each other in private, fun, and analogue terms, especially with people from belonging to different Masters. It can become manifestation of anything, people can write from personal feelings to poetry, they can attach images, they can write joke, they can leave a picture and so on. We want to give space to the physicality of the space, in this evermore digital world, we feel that is important to give space to analogue manifestations of our life, to make it more ephemeral, but at the same time more unique. It gives agency to the students to also deciding what gets archive and for whom, while creating a subterranean communicational space where people should be free to express themselves. The traveling nature of the object is important to highlight the temporality of the possibility of string with other people, to contrast with the readiness of the possibility of online sharing. Different individuals from different Masters will be responsible to give it out to different Masters cohorts every week.
Note for third space
While working on an artistic concept for the third space, group number six encountered the reality of the different structures of the different Masters that Fontys University of the Arts offers. We realized that most of us live the physical and social experience of the university once per week, or in other cases for two consecutive weeks every couple of months. Since the concept of third space and place is largely tied to an idea of community, we understand the co-creative act as an effort to form a stronger community within Fontys. As much as we appreciate the effort of including our artistic co-creational understandings of the concept of third space to counsel on the changes that the School is undertaking, we would like to highlight that to form a community time, energy and presence are required. For these things to be present, the very same design of the Masters that Fontys offer would need to be changed. After all, it is very difficult to build relationships that would foster a community seeing each other once per week. We want to leave this as a starting reflection of our creative process.
