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**Upskilling in the art of conversation, | **Upskilling in the art of conversation, | ||
- | **Context** | + | Research period (February and April 2013) for http:// |
- | Research period for [[www.transcontinentalgarden.net]] | + | // |
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+ | **Context** | ||
History of plant life has direct correlations with human development, | History of plant life has direct correlations with human development, | ||
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To do this the project aims to mix differing discipline approaches to create an eclectic story and group actions/ | To do this the project aims to mix differing discipline approaches to create an eclectic story and group actions/ | ||
- | Specifically my research | + | Specifically my research |
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+ | I'm fascinated that artforms that we could consider benign today were considered dangerous in their own context. In a similar way botany and gardening are often considered benign yet carry such dangerous cultural, scientific and economic agendas. | ||
One of the questions that the project asks is: What is dangerous for women to say through plants today? | One of the questions that the project asks is: What is dangerous for women to say through plants today? | ||
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**Methods** | **Methods** | ||
- | Having come to fo.am in the dead of winter whilst the collective was on holiday or working in warmer climes, I took advantage of the library here and the space to think. | + | Having come to fo.am in the dead of winter whilst the collective was on holiday or working in warmer climes, I took advantage of the library here and the space to think. |
General research was across discipline and form (literary, video, url, human conversation). | General research was across discipline and form (literary, video, url, human conversation). | ||
- | Meet with artists/ | + | Meet with artists/ |
- | Collect personal histories of people and plants: Maja Kuzmanovic | + | Collect personal histories of people and plants: Maja Kuzmanovic... |
- | Research on various human plant relationships in history: | + | Research on various human plant relationships in history: |
- | Research overview in plant signalling: | + | Research overview in plant signalling: |
- | Research into human perception: | + | Research into human perception: |
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+ | Devise a structure to help shape or give some focus to the wide range in the enquiry | ||
Devising lo-fi tactile experiences for humans to perceive plant signalling and give or receive signals: Edible Perfumes, Chlorophyll Printing | Devising lo-fi tactile experiences for humans to perceive plant signalling and give or receive signals: Edible Perfumes, Chlorophyll Printing | ||
Devising artistic material or environments for humans to assist an understanding of possible relationship futures: | Devising artistic material or environments for humans to assist an understanding of possible relationship futures: | ||
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Plant signalling | Plant signalling | ||
Human perception and the senses | Human perception and the senses | ||
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+ | Artistic research – self proposed | ||
+ | Finding a structure for approach – //**The Art of Conversation**// | ||
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+ | Establishing common gound – what are our shared histories and identities? Evolutionary, | ||
+ | Empathy | ||
+ | Forms and styles of communication: | ||
+ | How humans can give and receive (or perceive) alternative signals: perceiving the imperceptable, | ||
+ | Translation of signals: encoding, decoding, recoding | ||
+ | The content of the exchange | ||
Historic | Historic | ||
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The role of women in the advancement of the science of botany through the 17th and 18th Centuries in Western Europe and the United Kingdom. | The role of women in the advancement of the science of botany through the 17th and 18th Centuries in Western Europe and the United Kingdom. | ||
The role of plants as women’s status and expression advanced - including sexual education and expression through botanic watercolours and poetry through 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries in Western Europe and the United Kingdom. | The role of plants as women’s status and expression advanced - including sexual education and expression through botanic watercolours and poetry through 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries in Western Europe and the United Kingdom. | ||
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- | Artistic research – self proposed | ||
- | Finding a structure for approach – The Art of Conversation | ||
- | Establishing common gound – what are our shared histories? Evolutionary, | ||
- | Empathy | ||
- | Forms and styles of communication | ||
- | How humans can give and receive (or perceive) alternative signals | ||
Practical | Practical | ||
Chlorophyl printing on leaves | Chlorophyl printing on leaves | ||
- | The mirror box for human physical empathy | + | The mirror box for finding a physical |
- | Edible perfumes | + | Edible perfumes |
+ | Altering human perception of time and the anthropocentric inner monologue: Continuation practice (pre-fo.am) of creating audio meditations for the luminous green to infiltrate the human mind. | ||
- | Continuation practice (pre-fo.am) of creating audio meditations for the luminous green to infiltrate the human mind. | + | Document Werkweek Ecologie |
+ | Document Tree Identity Walk | ||
**Post Presentation Discussion** | **Post Presentation Discussion** | ||
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Reference artists Ackroyd and Harvey (UK) who work with chlorophyl printing on grass on a large scale. | Reference artists Ackroyd and Harvey (UK) who work with chlorophyl printing on grass on a large scale. | ||
- | Future The research continues in 2013 with attendance at meet up with Genspace Bio hackers and Observatory Gallery curators in Austin Texas USA, a Slime Mould workshop by Heather Barnett in March 2013 New York, the Plant Signalling Conference July 2013 in Vancouver, research of 17th-18thC botany texts at the Wellcome Library in London, residencies at Point B in New York, symbioticA in Perth Western Australia, and with artist collaborators at Bundanon Trust NSW. | + | |
+ | **Future** | ||
+ | The research continues in 2013 with attendance at meet up with Genspace Bio hackers and Observatory Gallery curators in Austin Texas USA, a Slime Mould workshop by Heather Barnett in March 2013 New York, the Plant Signalling Conference July 2013 in Vancouver, research of 17th-18thC botany texts at the Wellcome Library in London, residencies at Point B in New York, symbioticA in Perth Western Australia, and with artist collaborators at Bundanon Trust NSW. | ||
**References** | **References** | ||
- | • Botany Sexuality and Women’s Writing 17th – 18thC, Samantha George | + | Books |
- | • What A Plant Knows, an overview of information on recognised signalling methods in plants | + | |
- | • Hildegard von Bingen | + | * Botany Sexuality and Women’s Writing 17th – 18thC, Samantha George |
- | • Aroma | + | |
- | • Circus performer and grass scuplture Cirque d’Ici | + | |
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+ | * A History of the Senses, Dianne Ackerman | ||
- | • literature used in the research | + | URL' |
- | • media used in the research (film, audiovisual media, photographs…) | + | |
- | • visual/ | + | |
+ | * Circus performer and grass scuplture Cirque d’Ici | ||
+ | [[http:// | ||