LARP experiment with Dr. Cell on the 15.th of April
Dear class,
your attendance seems fine today. Thank you for coming to this lecture on Becoming a Cartographer for M.O.L.E. Laboratories.
Our name is Dr. Cell (they/them) and for those who do not know us, we will make a short introduction to who we are. We are the smallest unit that can live on their own and that makes up all living organisms and the tissues of the body. We are present in the complicated xenorhizomatic web of non-linear time-space constellations. We are here and yet gone somewhere else. We arrive and dissolve and re-appear in circular motion of feedback loop raising the question if we were even really gone. We play with visibility, sensibility, “attentionality”. We are other and always multiple. The ones always fluid. The ones always in motion. The ones worlding. The question about how we can deal with all these divergent stimuli occurs. There is this possibility to outsource them to various times while making connections between them. The intersections within linearities of our contemporaneity are present - they are many and happen at the same time in different tenses.
So we navigate ourselves by chance (a dice), we have the ability to embody different beings, become them, understand them, move with their bodies, mimic their curiosities, expressions, hear their thoughts. Learn with them and after a while leave them be.
What does it take to be a Cartographer for M.O.L.E. Laboratories? It is mainly about using your sight through other parts of your body then the eyes. It is about seeing differently - listening through your eyes, seeing through your skin, ears, mouth. Noticing in different ways then has been artificially fed to us, because even the situations, environments, feelings that appear as natural could be actually within their core artificial. What we would like to cultivate in this class is the noticing of an (maybe artificial) environment, collecting impressions, dissecting what is present though these glasses of questing the nature-culture distinction and creating a small map of your findings. We will go outside to explore and each of you will get a research kit but at first I would like to show you a clip, ask you few questions which could stay with you while you are exploring and do a few minutes warming-up exercise.
What does it mean for something/someone/other to be in their natural state? How does the gaze play games with us? Let's have a look on a videoclip which I put together. I was present at all of these seemingly natural locations. But do you know what they all have in common? They are purely artificial.
The Artificiality within an Environment
What do we see? If you would be about to describe these locations, what adjectives would you use? Where are these places located? What feelings do they trigger from within? What emotions do they communicate towards you? Is it only your individual feeling?
Now, let's go explore outside.
