Katharinas

1) Describe the texts (text, media, art).

3) Why are these texts is of interest to you?

4) What is its relation to your self-directed research?

5) How can the questions and issues these texts raise become work?

6) List research strands suggested by your peers

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1. video Veronika Moser, an iconic austrian scat porn actress is interviewed on how she started her practice and what she loves about eating other peoples' shit. It's set in a private kind of setting, Veronika speaks with a very thick viennese accent and smokes cigarettes while talking. 2) Veronika speaks of her work so unapologetically, it's just what she does and she gives - or at least appears to give - zero fucks. It's not easy to actually swallow shit, and she speaks about how she had to train for years to be able to actually do it. That's pretty much the definition of skill, no? There is occult power in the deviance of her porn practice, which I find fascinating. 3) The theme of occultism, maybe even humor, and the idea of a life practice instead of a work practice, all of which I find a relation to through looking at Veronika's porn practice. 4) Eat poo.

2. text A short excerpt from this book I found online, called "Life Breaks In, A Mood Almanack" by Mary Cappello. It describes a child's drawing in simple, staight forward language, i.e. "an entirely blue woman in an entirely green doorway", which in it's directness is actually quite poetic. It speaks about how letters are something we learn o draw, and pictures are something we learn to read. 2) I came across the text/book while I was researching the term "spiral eyes" online. What came up was this bit "A figure with an overly large head and spiral eyes could be a self-portrait cartoon", but when I read the paragraphs around it, I realized that the way it speaks about pictures and language/letters is potentially very interesting in my exploration of the spiral symbol. 3) The way in which the text looks at symbols through the uninhibitedness of a child's drawing, and changes the names of the shapes, "half moon", "an animal's horns" by rotating them in space is a nice way to approach material. 4) Ummmmmmm

3. artwork Paintings by the french artist Rosa Bonheur, who supposedly was (one of) the first women who worked successfully as an independent artist in the 19th century. She painted mostly animals and did so in a way that depicted her subjects as emotional and vulnerable in a way that one would maybe see in human facial expression. Rosa Bonheur grew up in a Saint Simonian household, a french political and social movement based on the belief that industrial progress and scientific discovery would restructure society and eventually lead to "true equality". She also made a mad painting of a white horse with a really long mane. 2) Similar to Veronika Moser, Rosa Bonheur seems to have been an independent, zero-fucks-given woman. What is of interest for me here is more an attitude towards making than what is actually made, in this case painting. Furthermore, Rosa is interesting in terms of looking at feminist movement happening within the larger framework of a male dominated social movement. 3) Again, similar to video example 1. 4) Again, ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm

VIDEO

  Scat porn actress- Thick vienesse accent that you would expect in a coffee house. Vibe hard to translate. To be full of other people shit.
  Ideas about occultism or humour can open slits in the material of reality.
  Give me a break and someone hands them a break, sexual deviance as a form of the occult. Power situations.
  Washing machine- spirals - how does a washing machine work? in and out and rotates
  
  What approach can I have towards things that interest me. Im interested but im not an expert, different field of application that helps me to see things and connection s and 
  qualities that can help me undertand and agument my learning.
  
  The suddence sense of everything connecting.
  
  Holes, the air, the shape. The camera shows temperature and bodies but also the air. The air as something that can be terriorialised.
  Sculptural process involving a spiralling process.
  
  Spiral eyes. Cartoon spiral eyes.
  
  TEXT
  Life breaks in : A mood almanac - ruminations on mood.  the moment of finding out about thermal imagery and cybernetic brain. 
  
  ARTWORK
  Rosa Bonheur, Emancipated  woman breaking free from saint simonianism(SP?). Carving out a niche for one's self as a gay, female woman
  Animal paintings. Fox outrageous horse with long hair.  Text about how feminist movements came as a reult from other movement sin the 60's. sh

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Deep Inside Veronica Moser's Mind K doesnt see a way to directly translate why she has chosen this video, between this and a video of how a washing machine works. K wants to read a bunch of stuff. Ideas she has been working with before, how humor can open, slips in the fabric of reality, an empowered form of action. Humor, comedy, rupture between the object and subject, there is room for action. Her sexual deviancy, as a form of occult. Underbelly of power. She owns it. She has been thinking about spirals, and processes. What approach can she have certain things that interest her. She is genuiunely interested in the thermal camera. Comes from a mlitary field of application technology, it helps her to see things. It has all kind of qualities that help her work with augmentd perspective of reality. Washing machine, spiral and psiral movement. Metrological imagery its all connected. photographich stirring the soup. Its about the air, bodies, and how things can be, (aura?) the idea that air can be teretorialised. How can you make sculptures, where there are spiralling things in them, also interested in eyes. In cartoons where the eyes become spiral eyes.

Ruminations on mood, finding out about the thermal imaging, how light works, cybernetic brains. Text about a painter called - Rosa Bonheur A super emancipated woman, came out about a spiritual movement called Sans Simonian Movement - she carved out a niche for herself, im indepeendet and gay and everybody who accpeted it, sshe was very succesful at her painting. Animals are anthropromophic.

Feminist movements came out of other movements or something.

Its not the kind of art I want to make. K works with wool, wool is huge industry, rustic and great and its not. Moher sheeps are breed to keep growing their hair, and bred to make depended Trying to find entry ways into things like technology.

embeded within a community and vision, like using the thermal camera.