User:Karina/graduation project

notes from CAPTURING MEMORIES IN TIME
previous written piece: Time Perception in Dance

27 SEPT

Feedback from Michael

25 SEPT

Feedback from Andre

Tino Sehgal
aaaaan.net (interview)
human to human interface
archiving visuals is only a part of it
what is communicate during dance? movement? feeling?
Tino - to make time appear

So far topics covered:
dance & time
dance & language
dance & notation

time & language ✓
language & notation ✓
notation & time ✓
time & language & notation - might be too much?

23 SEPT

Perception Of Time clocks Levine's clock v.s. event time differences in culture / langage? experiment / anecdote / own perception / interview with Italian friends (who lived abroad for the past few years) about their time perception compared to their familys' back at home Bergsonian v.s. Newtonian time describing time
Graphical Notation

scores
dance mats v.s. Labanotation
spatial orientation (with time)
experiment: spatial + rhythm
the need for notation (publishing and archiving)

Memory and Flow

Kandel's sea slugs & Milner's memory types
muscle memory
experiment: Jive mix up (challenging flow and muscle memory)
Csiksgentmihalyi's flow
experiment: experiencing flow in new dance style
interviewa: tools for flow and memory
comparisons of dance school methods / communication

Archiving as a Means of Communication

video archives, difficult to learn from
swing near death: Frankie & Norma
word of mouth, social dancing as a language

language has a structure, but is fluid
relate back to paradox of perception of time in dance & paradox of capturing (archiving) something you can only experience

20 SEPT

"How to build intimacy?" - Giulia about Anna's work, but relevant question for me too

larger context:

swing almost died out. Frankie Manning and Norma Miller brought it back in the 90s
dance passed down from person to person, if not archived, the dance language is at risk of disappearing
urgency (of old project with Sean)
archive interaction / capturing a moment in time
transcribe (filmed and physical) dance into graphics

what do you want to achieve with the audience? make them curious, guilty, excite them?

Feedback from Malroes

parkinsons (MS?) dance class
"kick the ball" command and the patients use muscle memory to perform actions / moves
Anna: get text on paralysed woman
how to make experiments include other people? aimed at other people?

experience v.s. imposed system
paradox: capture something you can only experience

songlines

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"kick the ball" experiment
film individuals 'dance' instructions based on muscle memory
compare how similar they are (comparing sheep illustrations)

brush teeth
kick ball
jumping jacks (you need to know what it means, but most people know)
kick-bull-chase (you need to know dance lingo)

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Small feedback from Steve

cognitive science
cognition in the wild (book)
situated turn in cognitive science

chapter (experiment #1: clock v.s. event time
expand on clocks / systems / power / paradox

19 SEPT

dance, like music, has a structure
music is a language
dance is another, that uses the language of music as a blueprint

help find a way to understand that language / style / atmosphere / structure

different dance styles = different culture / language
swing can be compared to 'family' languages (Slavic) that is broken down to other languages (Lindy Hop, Charleston, East Coast Swing, Balboa)
borrowed vocabulary due to history and politics (plenty examples in Swing: Frankie 6s, American Spin (Jive), The sailor step, Barrel roll)
List of Lindy Hop moves

if dance is a language, is it publishing something?
decoding dance
visualising dance in a different way (infographics)

18 SEPT

who / why would anyone care?
dance is a language
I want to teach it, make it easier for people to learn / understand

"creating a culture"

swing society
look historically
swing kids? (not language, not big aim)

"articulation"

Feedback from Aymeric

define / articulate the field, topic and approach
stalinist / orwelian memory
Deneet - cultures explained

compare schools together (Wesselling v.s. Swing in Rhythm)
method + culture (atmosphere)
talk about the dancers themselves
cultural codes
mention backgrounds and values?
Giulia: some countries girls / women are meant to know how to dance (Italy)

Emily: bird's eye view / marking space before dancing
code that forms harmony
spacial awareness
non-verbal communication
culture of school, culture of dancers

cultural interaction while I was on stage for Special Issue 02 - dancers & audience laughing
aim isn't to become a better dance teacher, but the research will help me either way

13 SEPT

Feedback from Steve

Before starting PZI I was planning to look into digital publishing, interactive PDFs, change in technology and publishing, print vs digital. My thesis would have probably been an analysis of a section of publishing.
At the moment I feel that would be too simple. I'm more interested in creating something I might not get a chance to in the future: a large-scale installation / experience. This would not use a traditional publishing method as a means of communicating my research.
Do I stick to a topic that interests me and use publishing as a means, rather than analyse publishing itself?

dance notation is a form of communication / publishing
experiments as research method
look at Victor's (fine art) thesis - diagrams
editorial: how will yo present experiments (event? publication?)
discrete things & how they come together?
my practise addresses this, this and that
these things create chapters, which allow for development

literacy / non-verbal communication
Sean v.s. new dance partners
being a good lead or follow. listening communicating signs / signals. communicating by touch
notation as a means of instruction

aim: what am I doing? what do I want to make out of it?

Next steps:

look through previous experiments
where will they take me? what experiment will flow next? don't stress, it'll flow
- experiment 1: time perception
- experiment 2: rhythm and notation
- experiment 3: flow
- experiment 4: memory and senses?
- experiment 5: archive?