Day 2
I'm posting this on Day 3 as I didn't get round to it yesterday. By the end of the day we were all in that state where you need time to process the information before you can assess where you are.
In the morning, Ronan did his workshop - he started us off by giving us pairs of random images together with the name of an object and asking us to quickly create a story that linked the images and used the object; to define a genre for the story and to create a single line of dialogue. We then watched a recent Mindshock documentary which introduced the theme of his project - Feral Children.
Dave and then Tristan & Charles led sessions in the afternoon which introduced us to their work and to their projects. Dave talked about the possibility that music offers to create a narrative that is about a single moment extended, and his idea for a project that is about extending and examining the moment just before something happens. Tristan & Charles set up 3 projectors side by side and showed us a series of images (from ones that they have photographed, together and separately, over the years) that they felt connected to their project - this is their usual starting point when planning something, but one they have never shared with anyone else before. They talked about the hidden paths and hidden stories of cities and about their interest in adjusting people's perceptions of their surroundings.
We then tried to summarise the first two days, define the many points of connection that had become apparent between the six separate ideas and to plan the next stage. After a while, Dave summed up what everyone was feeling, which was that the cumulative effect of the first two days needed a while to settle before it would clarify to any extent. Clare proposed an exercise for the following morning where we would all bring in cards with the three words or phrases that occurred to us in the morning and which would then be used to create a map of the first two days.
I am writing this part way through day 3, and will have to stop now so that I can carry on planning, but I wanted to write it up before the initial memory faded.
In the morning, Ronan did his workshop - he started us off by giving us pairs of random images together with the name of an object and asking us to quickly create a story that linked the images and used the object; to define a genre for the story and to create a single line of dialogue. We then watched a recent Mindshock documentary which introduced the theme of his project - Feral Children.
Dave and then Tristan & Charles led sessions in the afternoon which introduced us to their work and to their projects. Dave talked about the possibility that music offers to create a narrative that is about a single moment extended, and his idea for a project that is about extending and examining the moment just before something happens. Tristan & Charles set up 3 projectors side by side and showed us a series of images (from ones that they have photographed, together and separately, over the years) that they felt connected to their project - this is their usual starting point when planning something, but one they have never shared with anyone else before. They talked about the hidden paths and hidden stories of cities and about their interest in adjusting people's perceptions of their surroundings.
We then tried to summarise the first two days, define the many points of connection that had become apparent between the six separate ideas and to plan the next stage. After a while, Dave summed up what everyone was feeling, which was that the cumulative effect of the first two days needed a while to settle before it would clarify to any extent. Clare proposed an exercise for the following morning where we would all bring in cards with the three words or phrases that occurred to us in the morning and which would then be used to create a map of the first two days.
I am writing this part way through day 3, and will have to stop now so that I can carry on planning, but I wanted to write it up before the initial memory faded.
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