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writings

here you will find a glossary of terms,
sources, and research development 
that influence and inform this
process // work.....

writings: Exhibitions

glossary of terms

names, meanings, symbols, codes, entry points

Slinky

expanding, collapsing, compressing, {internal, external} [transitional]

Scientize

“transitive verb: to treat with a scientific approach the attempt to scientize reality, to name it and classify it”, observation, experiment, study 

Overstimulate

excessively stimulate, enhance the senses

space and time retwisted 

Consumerize

to make product available for mass production 

Consumer

a person who uses product or services for personal use

Consume  

ingest, intake, absorb

Playground

a space, usually outdoors, that has a constructed structure to interact with.  


Repurpose

adapt use for a different purpose


Communication

“message composition” “message encoding”


Indigestible

complex to digest- understand easily 


Grid

“a network of lines” 

Virtual grid

mesh, malleable, platform


Launchpad 

a platform that launches something, or sets something in motion

Trampoline cloud

a trampoline is a round platform assembled with springs attached to the outer metal ring lifted up by metal legs which launches a person into the air when the person presses down. A cloud is a “visible mass of condensed water floating in the atmosphere.” 

A cloud with trampoline qualities is a cloud that consists of bouncy buoyancy and can launch a piece of mass; this is a modality that has been implemented into the practice of this process in relation to the body.


Surrealism

avant-garde movement in art and literature in the 20th century, “which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind”

“irrational juxtaposition of images” 

juxtaposition of composition, combinations 

Internal

inner, inside, inner parts, inside source


External

outer surface, outer structure, outer, coming from a source outside 


Malleable

pliable, ever changing, can be influenced and moved by other forces in contact and interaction


Body 

physical structure, a structure that holds energy, electricity, bones, flesh, organs, self, soul


Embody

manifest, personify, “to give a tangible or visible form” to be an expression of, to become


Existence

alive, “having objective reality…”, entity, being


Visibility

being seen, being able to be seen.  

Subjective perceptions, pre-conceived perceptions.

Seen, felt, heard, listened to 


Function

a relationship involving one or more variables, an operation that performs a task or activity


Layer

covering, thickness, … on a surface, of a surface, in relationship to a surface 

Level

“a horizontal plane or line with respect to the distance above or below a given point”

A position, a scale of…


Atonal

not written in any key or mode, in musical terms


Vibration

moving the air, oscillation of fluid or solid with equilibrium distributed, or of electromagnetic wave


Reverb

“when a sound hits a hard surface and reflects back to the listener at varying times and amplitudes” 


Cadence

musical punctuation 

Body cadence

punctuation in the pressure of body movement 


Science Fiction

imaginative and future concepts - technological, social, environmental advancement, parallel universe, space and time travel

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citation.s

sources in conversation
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Artists/Works

Mika Rottenberg 

– “What is the Connection?” 

https://href.li/?https://channel.louisiana.dk/video/mika-rottenberg-what-connection 

– “Social Surrealism”

https://href.li/?https://channel.louisiana.dk/video/mika-rottenberg-social-surrealism 

Alex Da Corte- “Dancing Around Delusion”

https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHihCg-Xg-Q 

Jacolby Satterwhite-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WljeAovjtc 

How Not to be Seen – A Fucking Didactic Educational-

Hito Steyerl

https://www.artforum.com/video/hito-steyerl-how-not-to-be-seen-a-fucking-didactic-educational-mov-file-2013-51651 

Salvador Dali-

http://archive.thedali.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=1652;type=101 

Pipilotti Rist – Pixel Forest-

https://vimeo.com/189753340 

Robert Smithson-

https://holtsmithsonfoundation.org 


The Utopian Body by Michael Foucault

Subculture - the meaning of style by Dick Hebdige

Ghost of by Diana Koi Nguyen

Ella's research 
development

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writings: List

I am curious about and questioning language and communication, what is deemed to be digestible and understood as the best way to try and know someone, or to connect. I am questioning the vastness of language and communication, and how there are multiple, various modes in which something is being communicated, in which something is trying to be expressed, yet is not being noticed or witnessed.  Within the internal and external in relationship to consumerism and language and communication, I am further examining manipulation; Mass media and advertisement produces symbols and concepts that grab the societal eye with easily digestible language and communication within the systems of manipulation, capitalism, and consumerism.

I want to disrupt symbols and codes in place. 
I want to imagine and manifest a perception and expression of a world where the unconscious, free flowing self can spill and spread and unleash. 
I want to unmake sense.
I want to question systems in place in everyday consumerist life by disrupting and reassembling these systems.
I want to go where I am. 
I want to go to the places I have always lived in.

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In conversation with my questions of language and visibility, I am looking to the video project, How Not to Be Seen | A Fucking Didactic Educational (see citations list).  What interests me is the point made in the video that, “Resolution determines visibility.” “It calibrates the world as a picture.”  I have been drawn towards zooming into fragments of landscapes, captured from the perspective of being on a plane, within the vastness of space.  I have been drawn towards grid patterns, lines, and levels that are drawn and that imprint into the vastness of space.  Within this space for me becomes a digital, virtual like space that can be bent, mushed, and zoomed in and in and in, getting deeper and deeper into the multifaceted meat of the material, and of what could become visible.  I am curious of and am playing with the vastness of space, and content that can be created into space, or content that can be zoomed into space.

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I am intrigued by how colors can textualize and communicate a feeling, a statement, a way to connect with language and emotion.  The fabrics communicate, contain and consume.

I’m interested in the multiple layers of the body and self and space, such as clothing over skin over fascia over muscles over guts over veins over deeper and deeper layers that are all simultaneously here, and how these functions and layers relate, converse, express, and reveal.

what if I told you you cannot define anything?

are you here?  where are you?  where do you want to be?  

you can be where you want to be...

forget about your face.....

feel the tips of your fingers 

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where [[[process]]]

This process lives in the multiple, in the chaotically organized, practices of play and in-the-moment disruption of in-the-motions routine programming, tapping into the inner child, the rage and surrendering, the improvising. 


Practices//Processes include 

moshing,

responding to and embodying layered codes of soundscapes, 

creating space around and of the body,

exploring how clothes affect the skin and layers within,

transferring the pressure of the feet soles touching the floor to the entire body touching space,

juxtaposition of textures,

floor imprint,

trampoline cloud modality,

rhythm echo,

internal rhythm,

space hold body parts,

launch pad weight element,

mapping and building momentum of multiple dimensions,

and omnipresence.  

This work is drawn to contraptions that the body can play on, merge with, and test; a park, architectural industrial buildings, rooftops of parking garages, stairs, skateparks//.  This process formulates a community project, a gathering, a party.

This process is not always planned, but sometimes formulates and happens in the moment, in real time and unobserved time, in real life and unobserved life, which creates a gathering of community, of collective individuality, of togetherness within change, difference, and simultaneous presence. 

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