In the past week, my main focus was to collect fragments of inspirations for…
How to trigger deep conversations?
My aim is to build an ideal framework to trigger the deep and informative conversations with my future guests. What possible topics or activities can I put to elaborately curate the event? There are some related things or actions with regard to this question.
Recalling Drawing your river of life Event
Three years ago, I participated in a community in Shanghai called YesGo which aimed at building the social network as well as encouraging people to explore the self. One of the event taking place at that time was called Drawing your river of life, which encouraged community members to draw own life graphs and share the life stories within the group in 10-20 minutes. Everyone became talkative. I am trying to examine whether it is applicable in ‘Drinks for Stories’ event.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
After the tutorial on this Monday, I got some time to chat with Ziff and discuss about my first intervention. He suggested me to learn about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy applied in psychotherapeutic treatment. Time allowed for self-reflection might be useful in leading to better talks.
And I am going to meet my dear teammates from MA CCC in last unit tonight to get more knowledge about curations!
How to produce interesting stuff?
Even though it might not be a wise decision to confirm the final output in this stage, I still feel the necessity to speculate the outcome a little bit, because it extrapolates backwards to what kind of data I need to collect, and in which way.
Sophie Calle
I enrolled in UAL short course of Photography one month ago. In this Tuesday’s session, we were introduced the artist Sophie Calle who devoted her work to detect stranger’s private lives and created personal profiles of whom she investigated in exhibitions through grouping a set of frames together. I am planning to take references of her ways of art expression in archive building.
Her
I watched the film Her on last Sunday night and was really impressed by its aesthetics. Personally, the most interesting setting is Theodore’s work PC, which looks quite like an artefact with his professionally composed letters on the screen. Such a visual language makes the world depicting the future digital era more humanistic. It might be good if I can build the online archive in this way.
