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--- obstinate_lump [2013-07-15 09:02] – [2013.07.13 day 4] 83.101.5.51
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 Spending today further experimenting, cleaning up and sorting the samples into some kind of order.
+====Research Gathering====
+Why flour dough? why not some other material like clay if formal concerns are foregrounded?
+- Bread is a known substance that most people have a direct tactile experience of, and so have a frame of reference for.
+A visitor to the Research Gathering commented she liked the more 'bread like' samples, as they are familiar yet strange. We had previously noted that we liked the more unadulterated bread samples, that seemed to use dough and bread very much as themselves.
+- history of dough and bread, anthropological perspective
+- Starters as pets, seemed to interest people. The bubbly, smelly, alchemical nature of the starter cultures intrigued and engaged guests. The smell is an important aspect we would like to use in future works.
+- A dough is alive, putting live things into the body is healthier. Capitalism sees everything as a dead product, draws borders and prices so requires stable products. Living wild cultures are a combination of different organisms that are in constant symbiosis, this is a different model for food, living etc.
+- the Tactile qualities of dough, some people find it repulsive, some sensual and relaxing. Dough is a physically overwhelming material, to touch it is explicitly physical. Raw matter.
+- motion of the dough resisting gravity, optimistic?
+- a Guest mentioned exploding dough.
+- a Guest mentioned Minakata Kumagusu and Slime moulds.
+(blue map page insert here)
+Recipes
+Mika Rottenburg 'Dough' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2rlnw21Wfg
+====2013.07.16 day 7====
+Made video work with flowing alive dough and feet.