Category: Olive Basho 🫒
Toolkits by CATs in the Olive Basho
Reading Time: 3 minutesIntroduction Have you ever wondered leftover tea can be dyed to produce different colors and textures? In this “One Tea, One Cloth – Tea Dyeing Mini Lab”, you will use two types of tea and two kinds of fabrics to run a small “science + craft + art” experiment within 20 minutes. You don’t need […]
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhat’s Your emotion now? We often divide our life into different stages, taking major events as the symbol, and compress the emotional complexity of each period into a single dominant emotion. When we lovelorn, we will summarize this difficult time as a sad emotion. However, the emotion is so soft that it is changeable every […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesIntroduction Weaving Weaving technique mainly uses crochet as the tool and adjusts the density and texture of the fabric through a combination of stitches. As for weaving art, which is a kind of art with thread as the core material. The creator uses techniques such as winding, interweaving, knotting and shuttling to construct linear materials […]
Reading Time: 8 minutesSummary This open toolkit guides you through a simple but rich observation exercise. This open learning manual will guide you through a very simple yet inspiring observation exercise to explore how “time” affects our perception of artworks. Sometimes, when we think we are “looking,” we are actually just focusing on the brightest or most central part […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes1.Introduction Thinking question (1 min) “Look at the two photos of toilets. Which one do you think could be considered a work of art? If I tell you that the object on the left is an artwork, what makes these two images different? Why can’t the one on the right be seen as art?” Traditional […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesDraw It With Your Eyes Closed👀 Summary In this activity, you draw an everyday object or a sound with your eyes closed. Instead of relying on what you can see, you use touch, sound and imagination to guide your drawing. This allows you to pay attention to details like texture, shape and weight, which […]
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhen vision fades,perception will be reshaped. Introduction When vision fades, the body begins to “see” in another way.Scents, textures, and sounds form a new terrain,and every sensation becomes a coordinate. In the upcoming non-visual photography experience,you will use your senses to take three photographs,and place them on a sensory coordinate map to observe,how the body […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesIntroduction & Aim This is an open toolkit that helps individuals retrieve their memories and emotions by touching old objects. They allow absent people or vanished scenes to remain in the present in the form of “objects”, providing people with a sense of security and a mental transition. By touching them, individuals can draw calmness […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteStep 1 (4 minutes) Please watch the video, screenshot scenes of discomfort and form your comments. Video Link: https://youtu.be/Vk5-c_v4gMU?si=o55jwuIugFHIo71b https://b23.tv/aMsGh4y (for Chinese students) Step 2 (3 minutes) Please post your comments (may include screenshots) on this Padlet step 2‘s comments section and browse others’ comments. Padlet for post comments: https://padlet.com/gaoxinger6/viewing-magnetic-through-mulvey-s-theory-does-it-gaze-at-wom-7xev1e74amdtcc6o Step 3 (10 […]

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