Family history -
book as performance- documentation as document - importance of text - private
public spaces - representing the everyday - artist as detective - distorting
language - learning from failure - concepts of collection - collection as
material - using book to frame the world - slow reading - cyphers and codes -
text/textile - making landscapes - landscape of identity - repurpose wellbeing
- graphic inclusivity - notions of truths - book as architecture - material
matters - systems to cope - knowing not knowing. My notes from the first symposium
at camberwell - it's a great day of sharing where the room swirls with
possibilities and the past is used as a starting point for new possibilities.
This year it was particularly beautiful to see that the course had been so
beneficial to the fist years, their presentations were full of examples where
they had taken opportunities and made the best of them - excellent.
managed to finally see
Blade Runner http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856101/?ref_=nv_sr_1
which was superb - thoughtfully referencing the first instalment with being
referential , plot, acting and textile activity was all excellent. This alongside
a special mention for the interiors (the room where you emerge from a hole under
the water) and sounds which were just awesome. The experience made me go back
to the original, I hadn't remembered the slightly overbearing Hans Zimmer
soundtrack and actually maybe we had gone a little backwards when it comes to
the representation of women as the 2049 has women as empty vessels, disposable
or precious specimens.
the jungle - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3758172/?ref_=rvi_tt
my scouting experience tells me to be prepared so this is just a little
annoying - don't go into the woods! somehow everything is there but just
doesn't gel together enough.
the house - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4481514/?ref_=rvi_tt
Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler riffing off each other - silly madness but in an okay way.
