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After researching, I’ve taken interest in touch, smell, and even taste as sensory inputs/outputs to explore. I have been especially interested in smell because it is a sensory output that is furthest from being digitally store or replicated. I think touch is also an interesting aspect because of it’s intimacy and how it contrasts to the lack of touch we experience in a museum. Just to get some weird/initial ideas out of the way, these are some things I have been thinking about. My fear is that these ideas will box me in too early yet I am excited about the possibilities and maybe by recording them in a more “official” way will allow me to move on and brainstorm further

1) Museum Suit- a suit that replicates the lack of touch in a museum and the “no touching/leaning/running” norm in a curated space. It would be a hazmat or skin-fitted suit with rods sticking out from all sides, preventing the user from touching, leaning, or bumping into the things that surround them. Ideally, if you bump into something, the rods will trigger a negative response (shock or a prick?) that will make you not want to touch your surroundings with your body.

2) Texture Painting- A box that contains the textures within a painting so that the “viewer” can “see” the painting with only touch. (a painting with trees and dirt would have those physical textures contained within the box and would not be visible from the outside)

3) Sound Painting- How do the blind ‘see’ an image? Sound. The idea is to have a blank canvas where the user can trigger sounds that would come from a painting when you touch different areas of the painting. It would look something like this: 

Today I started at 2 in the venue by people in my half of the day showing music to each other so we could get ideas from for our FMP show. Some music that was shown were good ideas of what we could try by using dynamics/eerie music to create the theme of a world that had just been destroyed by a bomb and people coming out of this vault to a desolated world.

Here are some of the tracks that were shown amongst my group:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VCwBzGdPM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDgPl90_C74

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psJx4rKoCKY

After listening to some music and to some ideas people had about where we could use the music (for example when the survivors come out of the vault) then we split into two groups to go work on pieces of music for the FMP. Our tutor Tom put me in a group and asked us to go learn and work on what a wonderful world by Louis Armstrong in the small rehearsal booth in the venue whilst the other group worked on a piece of music they had to make up in the  venue on the stage.

Today we started at 10 in the venue making sure we knew what we had planned roughly for the FMP was okay with everyone which it was so that was good.

We then started discussing roles of what people wanted to do by going into groups so we can start putting the show together. The options that people had to choose from for the moment were: audio/video, set design and promotion and marketing.

I chose to go into the set design team as I already had a couple of rough ideas in my mind of what we could do with the stage and seating arrangements for example having parts of the stage on wheels so we can move parts of the stage around in the room to make it more interesting and we could move the seating arrangement in the break of the FMP so the audience would have to sit somewhere else in the second half of our show just to change it up a bit and make it different than just having a normal show with one place for the audience to sit and watch the show.

Afterwards, we started to discuss more roles of what each individual person can do within their groups they had just been put into for example I decided to do set design for the inside of the venue as I had them ideas in mind where as other people in the set design group would research and look up pictures or think about how to decorate the venue/corridors of the building.

Later on during the day after discussing everyone’s roles within their teams everyone split themselves into two groups depending on who wanted to be in the morning the next day or who wanted to be in the afternoon and making the halves fair so there would be a fair amount of pianists/singers etc in each halve of the day for the rest of the week so people during the week can start working on bits of music for the FMP. It didn’t really bother me what half of the day I was in so I had been put into the group which was in the afternoon the next day.

An interesting article I found on the upcoming food of 2014.

http://www.refinery29.com/2014/01/60174/food-trends-2014#slide-2

Detail: Perpsex units, white card, diaper linings, plastic sheeting, paper,ink 31 units, 28 x 35.5 cm each

Detail: Perpsex units, white card, plaster, cotton fabric  1 of the 8 units, 28 x 35.5 cm

Post-Partum Document is a six-year exploration of the mother-child relationship. When it was first shown at the ICA in London in 1976, the work provoked tabloid outrage because Documentation I incorporated stained nappy liners. Each of the six-part series concentrates on a formative moment in her son’s mastery of language and her own sense of loss, moving between the voices of the mother, child and analytic observer. Informed by feminism and psychoanalysis, the work has had a profound influence on the development and critique of conceptual art.

Mary Kelly