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Art in the Waiting Room

NOTES

First Session:

Labyrinth, non-places (airports, places where you wait)-> Non - Places by Marc Augé https://www.martinparrfoundation.org/product/boring-postcards/

“Town labyrinths, again. There's Pisa, I don't know what is labyrinthine about it. Then suddenly, this is like when you are queuing at the airport. At some moment I start to call just about everything a labyrinth.”

“Again processions and processions ... I don't know why processions all of a sudden become labyrinthic. And that's how you walk in an underground train station.” - http://vandal.ist/thesituationisttimes/04/index.html#9/-2.512/116.266http://vandal.ist/thesituationisttimes/04/index.html#9/-2.445/148.773

LIMINAL SPACES - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SX8XMwMw6Y

SOFT DIMENSIONS - Worked with Inara Nevskaya, an architect while @ Volume Magazine, that studies the psychology of how people use space - https://softdimension.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/40/

ANNOTATION -

With Louisa & Floor, we started annotating the existing materials for edition #7 of The Situationist Times. A prevailing theme we all connected with was the idea of the attention economy and how games are built with the purpose to keep us locked in.

Game Ideas:

Spam bot/chain mail characters waiting room

The limbo of waiting for people to reply/forward emails

Aspects of waiting rooms, bad art, stock furniture etc. Non-places - https://thespinoff.co.nz/art/10-05-2020/art-in-the-waiting-room/

Main themes:

1. Obsolete Media - Chain mail stories
2. Non-Places
3. Psychogeography- Unitary urbanism
4. Goes hand in hand with non-places as they sometimes seem like relics of the past

- linked to the attention economy of gaming? Fast, explosive etc

- Could this be an antithesis to this?

Books:

• Non Places - Marc Auge
• Boring Postcards - Martin Parr
• A Pattern Language - Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, and Sara Ishikawa
• Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary - Naoto Fukasawa
• Blinking and Flapping - Yasuhiro Suzuki
• On Lingering - Kirsten Spruit