Week 3 – Collective: Workshop
Collective Meeting Week 3
In this session each member of the collective discussed the development of their individual project. The emerging themes were:
- Expressing and experiencing dreams
- Artwork relating to disease
- Life and Art
- Ecological Experiences
- Trauma, Diaspora, and Identity
- Colour Psychology
- Sensing and feeling.
- Dance based Exhibition
I expressed interest in immersive exhibitions which was reciprocated by four other members of the collective. We also shared an audience-centred approach in this regard.
Regarding these focuses connecting themes began to emerge, especially the body, which united the ideas of Bodily Disease, Sensing, Identity, and Dance. In relation the notion of an inner and outer world was introduced that can encompass themes of Identity and Life.
On reflection I also believe that all the themes expressed in this session can be united by a focus on Phenomenology, a branch of philosophy concerned with perception and experience, with contemporary academic investigation that spans philosophical analysis, neurological study, and artistic examination. Ideas pertaining to the physical are wrapped up in Merleau-Ponty’s embodied analysis, while more internal transcendental practices can find rooting in emotional, and experience based neurological precedence.
Based on this, I developed a mind map exploring possible collective names, as well research into Phenomenology for inspiration.
From this mind map I generated the following names:
- Happenings
- The Happening
- Occurrence
- Phenomena
- Corporeal
- Incarnation
- Manifest
- Somatic
- Mortal
- Earthly
- Tangible
- Wide Awake
- Eyes Open
- Aware
- Conscious
- Fluency
These will be inserted onto the Collective Miro Board, and then posed to the Collective in the Week 4 meeting.
