DANCE NOT DANCE CLIMB NOT CLIMB – AUG 2009
SENSING. FEELING. DOING – OCT 2009
CIVILITY AND ALTITUDE – OCT 2009
UNPREDICTABLE SPACES – NOV 2009
TEXTURES IMPRINTS FRAMEWORKS – JUNE 2010
EMBODYING LANDSCAPE AND VERTICAL LEVELS – Sep 2010
THE DAY SNOW CAME - Dec 2010
MEANING AND LOCATION – Jan 2011
THE LOCATION IS WHERE IT SHOULD BE – Jan 2011
IDEA BASE CAMP – Jan 2011
THE COVE – Mar 2011
NAMING SOME THINGS (1) – MAY 2011
NAMING SOME THINGS (2) – MAY 2011
SOPHORIFIC RAIN - JUNE 2011
Hi Steve,
Anteburn Afterburn:
what you bring with you and what you take away?
We were discussing thoughts about what “content” might be generated at the cove.
Obvious ones were those which were a direct response to what is there – the natural environment, and activities people do there (climbing, camping, easting looking, moving, sleeping etc). This would seem to be the core “content” – but then idea came up which to me is important as it connect this place to everyplace we inhabit in our lives – and makes it especially resonant and relevant. It also helps this place not to be over revered or something – too otherworldly. This idea was about what you might bring to the place – not just physical (body, clothes, equipment, food etc) but also in terms of the thoughts, emotions, concerns and predilections of your daily life – routines, relationships and beliefs. Also culture – songs, music, poems etc. The question then was how to incorporate this – what might be interesting and also how long do these things remain (e.g. thoughts, concerns, worries related to work. So this is a bit about how long things take to dissolve into the background or disappear when you are in such a different place – what remains, what stays important. Lets call this the “Anteburn”.
The following flip side of this is when you leave the cove – how long does the experience take to subside – as you go about your daily activity? What could be done to extend this, continue this or even help it subside? There’s a kind of half-life effect – when the experience is slowly degrading away from being a foreground to a background then just a memory. For me there’s a physical memory and mental memory going on as well both having an emotional connection and both fading –physical memory quite quickly the mental memory stays and modulates and probably changes significantly from the actual events. This sounds very sad – but it needn’t be – it resonates (good word) the need and value of these kinds of experience as an integrated element of life patterns and routines. It also makes it connected to the office the home the studio and any other place we habit. So I’d call this the “Afterburn”.
I guess the obvious and usual modes of extending the half-life is photography (holiday snaps), writing and other artforms, collecting materials – all these are in some way souvenirs. But is this the real effect or mode of art? I think that’s a secondary (tho very important) function – the art primary result should (and always does – the challenge is to develop this) offer something different – a new experience (related maybe to the source) but new and fundamentally different. – tho we still could see it as extending the experience – but must accept it will not offer that related potential for people who didn’t have the experience…..
So anyway enough noodling. Can we think of ways to work with both these ideas – Anteburn and Afterburn. Exercises to explore or focus on this?
Dan
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