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| ON METHOD
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| “It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.” — Donna Haraway, 2011.
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| There is a reason why I chose this quote before going into explaining my method. This introduction can easily serve as a guide, because of its structure. I see it as if it is giving us a choice (a moment) to first be a little distracted before hitting the purity of its logic.
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| And my method of working is very much reliant on that choice - a moment that possible lasts slightly longer then “a moment” for the sake of distraction that I need to fully experience in order to get on the other side of it and untie the tie that tied that knot and the other knot and what not.
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| For that reason are the matters of my matter at first looking like a room of distraction, but I am starting to realise that I am purposely doing that in order to make room for experiencing that moment in which I will make the connection. I believe this is what is usually called research.
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| I’ll call it a fabulative speculation. An inversion of the speculative fabulation, that according to Fabrizio Terranova (who is again following up on Donna Haraway’s SF wordplaying), is a type of narration particularly suited for Virtual reality.
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| And since I have made a choice to follow a need to conceive my art practice as an inquiry, I will use that inquiry as a tool to investigate my own multiple realities.
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| Fabulation could be a postmodern technique that is used for twisting standard expectations by experimenting with subject matter.
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| Speculation is forming a theory without having firm evidence but it is a process that has its shakes and movements, rather than being a statement that has its pillars and a firm position.
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| Speculation will still welcome building on its grounds , but it may happily collapse and start over from scratch. I am not forming a theory though, I am just speculating with narration, in order to make use of the chaos.
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| The aim here is to keep moving and exploring, with possibility of not reaching a conclusion. Another aim of this method is also to be gentle with the understanding of the need to produce work that is even unstable, in order to be able to perceive the potentially changing limits of it.
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| To find an ever renewed pleasure in sculpting the alternatives of understanding and in deconstructing the experience of failure. Also, I hope my method is going to help me realise potentials of my own practice while/when sharing it with others, in order to retrace my motives, and always stay simple.
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| My current practice is working on a couple of researches that might eventually be circled out as one.
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| The research “ What is going to happen to the color blue” is a continuous “reacting” on gathering information about our the idea of being at the edge of extinction. While I am also reading about the multiple faces of Gaia, and the multiple faces of the Athropocene, and slowly making my way through the semiotics of various scientists, philosophers, anthropologists and politicians are building around it, I produced a reaction to it on a 16mm film. It is an experiment that uses selected parts of a documentary material (on the biology of the ocean life) that I will myself put to extinction by making repetitive usage of it. I transferred the before edited material on a 16mm film by hand, simply –by gluing it together. The material itself is now very fragile and by continuous projecting it will be physically runned down, changed and decayed. It will still be, but each time in a slightly changed form.
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| Connected in larger context to this is the research I have started on gathering the myths of the albino people of the indigenous tribe of Guna Yala, that I am hoping to visit soon and extensively record. According to the Guna mythology, albinos are named Sipu and are considered a special race of people. Their specific duty is to defend the Moon against a dragon which tries to eat it.
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| Bibliography
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| Jonas Mekas: As I was moving ahead Ocassionaly I saw Brisk glimpses of Beauty
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| Donna Haraway: Tentacular thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene
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