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Reading, Writing and Research Methodologies

SESSION 1

WHAT HOW WHY

1. EMOTIONAL REALISM OR DO YOU DO YOURSELF ON YOURSELF

WHAT It is a title of a series of photographs. There are around 18 analog photographs in the series that make part of this story. The real story itself took part during three nights and four days on an island in Croatia. It was a short get away, for me, my best friend and his dog. I guess everybody of us had its own reasons for needing to elope. The main idea was to get at least 500 kilometers from the city and then cross the sea to the island, find a beach to settle down on and sleep under the sky for some nights and stay clean from the everyday habits.

HOW IT CAME TO BE There are certain thing one needs to do for his self- therapy. I wanted to deal with my pre-anxiety before a big project I was about to embark on. To be more precise, I wanted not to think about the project and use the best of my three day short holiday break. Without making these rules, I wanted to be one/with the sea, two/ under the sky, /three/find complete darkness compared to the stars above. Moving through these steps consciously, you might actually enter a slowmotion mode and virtually prolong the 3 day holiday into many and more - non time subjected moments.

WHY The title and the term that means: “ A representational quality in a narrative that is felt to be – true to – life “. It also suggests that for some viewers, when watching a soap opera or a long running series - gives viewers a chance to form parasocial interactions with the characters. Hence my close ups shots – are aiming to develop a parasocial relationship with the nature itself. For the cultural theorist Ian Eng who coined the term, emotional realism depends on connotation more than on denotation. Even if at the level of content the treatment is unrealistic, what is recognized as real is truth to feeling.

2. FEED YOUR HEAD

This body of work was made with two analog cameras during an afternoon. It is a record of a pagan ritual that takes part every year in the region of Croatia that is not as close to the sea as it is engraved in the solid rocks. Rocks are also a representation of a nationalistic right wing conservative ignorant society that now predominates the region. In some previous times during the history of the mentioned region, people were mostly shepherds, and so their everyday life was mostly defined by the season, or the rain or the lack of it. It is well know how strong and strenuous work leaves no time for the mind to overplay you.

On the contrary, if - and - as - the idle mind is the devil’s playground, feed your head would be a metaphor on what is my position toward this people’s non- evolution. The images, both in color and in black and white, show groups of people, predominantly white males but also women and children wearing masks. The most used mask is circa a meter long sheepskin made totem planted on the top of the persons head. The atmosphere should be one of a celebration, while in reality it is not.

To play with the eerie feeling I received from the experience and to mix it with the already formed opinion on the region where the pagan ritual is taking place. To propose a message to the same people to feed their heads with something more useful than nationalistic propaganda. To give another option on how to read them, or at least a musical background to it, with the last lines of Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit song.

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SESSION THREE

my lucky number.

reading day. i had a page from Paul Bowles/Sheltering Sky

i wanted to upload an image but ..

SESSION 4

NOTES ON UTOPIA/DISTOPIA U T O P I A Melvyn Bragg

MEANS NO PLACE the idea has been there since human thought began thomas moore - utopia , no place — already kind of an idea

the conditions in england at that time

idealised perfect society - egypt time \\

the first kind of realisable utopia - better world for the public — plato’s republic - eugenics - selective breeding of human beings

filtering out - tourtures, terrors

human society was always driven to utopias, for producing the best conditions for everybody in society

religious ideas - paradox

all happy - suffering gone

writing utopias - wish to evade death

death is the ultimate anti utopian thing - if you can only find how to become immortal - ultimate utopia

GULLIVER’S TRAVELS // READ AGAIN

was plato’s republic - totalitarian

authoritarian - hierarchical / egalitarian communities - non hierachical fascist / anarchist utopia 20th century utopian communities communism

living up to Skinner ideals - everybody’s equal egalitarian communities

the federation of egalitarian communities

kibutz the idea in the k. those who can work work marx slogan From each according to his ability, to each according to his need (or needs)

sacrifice of individual to the whole ?

communities should have enough for everybody

/// h.d. wells > the face of things to come //// Skinner —— walden

scientific minds see the problem of selective breeding and overpopulation

platos republice is = warriors virtues civic virtues

post darwinism - a lot of information that makes us human beings in genetic information. its not institutions but human nature , inbread human unhappiness or happiness is genetic

within a 100 years genetic engineering will allow parents to erase the diseases interbreeding will be impossible the modification of human nature in a way

the viruses are going strong nowadays the bacteria will get us

///modernist utopias

richard ______ - intelligent planet how long can it go on cannibals in brasil in the end utopia is going to be —— > going back into ourself ??

zamiathin huxley - fears of the unwashed masses will take over the society orwell - fearing big brother, societies over controlled

Ferdinand Tönnies (German: [ˈtœniːs]; 26 July 1855, near Oldenswort, Eiderstedt, North Frisia, Schleswig – 9 April 1936, Kiel, Germany) was a German sociologist and philosopher. He was a major contributor to sociological theory and field studies, best known for his distinction between two types of social groups, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. He co-founded the German Society for Sociology, of which he was president from 1909 to 1933, after which he was ousted for having criticized the Nazis. Tönnies was considered the first German sociologist proper,[1] published over 900 works and contributed to many areas of sociology and philosophy.

late 19 st utopias - optimistic egalitarian early 20 - pessimistic exclusive

marx >>>>> from each according to his ability, to each according to his need 

edwards bellamie >>>>>> takes marxes ideal and .. there will be no money everyone will have a credit card -that entitled everyone to absolutely equal share of a national surplus ———> absolute equality

whether there were fit unfit hd wells >>>> represented a great change -ruination of the planet due to overpopulation first person to be worried about the planet reduce the population - overpopulation we’re destroying the planet

he’s a rasial suprematist

thomas moore - his utopia egalitarian

french revolution

main currencies in society industrial revolution - mid victorian after 1890s understood - second way ,other forms of utopia became prevalent.

naturalisation of catastrophic changes brought with industrialisation masses, mass society - society became to understand itself

mass will, mass labour mass psychology - gustav le bonne - “on Crowds” society became contious of themselves

invention of electricity

faster by the 1880 technologies become soft machines, intimate, even the light bulb gave birth to some utopias technology got inside the human beings

engineering people not engineering society per se

ideology - beings to become part of the effort to understand human beings of how they behave collectively beliefs feelings from the late 19th century - are seen as things that can be produced

engels - utopian propensity ??? the new woman writers using dreams and allegories

utopia - for women writers - not as a no-place but a “ not yet “ place. —————the tense of utopia of woman writings

van Dyke - a land of only girls - daughters utopia

virginia wolf — orlando

marge pierce -

hd wells - people of the abyss

the cult of life life has been defined as regulative ideal - who isn’t on the side of life?

in this century - life is the ULTIMATE VALUE

it’s not getting rid of wickedness but of the ugliness

there should be no UGLINESS IN utopia

EUGENICS the science of improving a population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics.

In Plato’s utopia, defective children were killed at birth

Synthetic genes - eliminate all genes designer babies - the future children no possible interbreeding

humanism - immune response to darwinism????

with the population growing no-one knows if the planet can sustain it nuclear war - in 1914 he said, and regulation by sensible birth control

huge game parks on the planet keeping all the animal species ____

planned society - organised society - utopia ...

Huxley - brand new world - utopia dystopia satire ?

>>the educated mind is what matters

BNW -allegory of contemporary America the world of jazz, of the mass culture distopya of the Good Time

classical music read shakespeare intellectual elite

the future lies with the — orwell

+ HOW MY UTOPIA LOOKS LIKE File:UTOPIA LOOKS.pdf

PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT ALLOCATION RECOURCES RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS

SOCIAL PLANNING -TEAM UP AND MAKE AN UTOPIA TOGETHER

// PRINCIPAL /// ROLE OF CHANGE: “YOU SAY THE REAL, THE WORLD AS IT IS. BUT IS NOT, IT BECOMES! IT MOVES,, IT CHANGES. IT DOESN’T WAIT FOR US TO CHANGE. .. IT IS MORE MOBILE THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE. YOU ARE GETTING CLOSER TO THIS REALITY WHEN YOU SAY IT “PRESENTS ITSELF” THAT MEANS THAT IT IS NOT THERE, EXISTING AS AN OBJECT. THE WORLD, THE REAL IS NOT AN OBJECT, IT IS A PROCESS. “

GOVERNMENT - AND THE RULING BODY IS MADE OF A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS : RESEARCHING AND BUILDING PRESENT AND FUTURE ARCHITECTURE FROM THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS

FROM THE COLLECTIVE DREAMS

THE SYSTEM IS KEPT TOGETHER BY AN ALMOST DAILY TURNAROUND OF VARIOUS RESEARCHERS, SCIENTISTS, SPIRITUALISTS

PSYCHOLOGISTS NEUROSCIENTISTS ANTRHOPOLOGISTS MUSICICOLOGISTS HOWARD ZINN INSIPIRED HISTORIANS COMEDIANS WITH DEPRESSIVE BACKGROUND POETS, ARTISTS, PHILOSOPHERS, PHILANTHROPES, TAROT READERS, ASTROLOGERS

BUT ALSO WITH ALGORITHMS PROGRAMMED ACCORDING TO EXISTING MODELS OF OLD CIVILISATIONS, PREDOMINANTLY MATRIARCHIES, BUT ALSO ON EASTERN ZEN TRADITIONS AND VARIOUS ALCHEMIC TRADITIONS AND TRIBAL KNOWLEDGE

EDUCATION KOENS

S KEPT TOGETHER AND RESEARCHED DAILY BY PHYCHOLOGISTS, NEUROSCIENTISTS AND ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND HOWARD ZINN LIKE HISTORIANS COMEDIANS THAT HAVE ALL HAD DEPRESSION IN THEIR LIVES, POETS AND PHILOSOPHERS AND VARIOUS TYPES OF HEALERS AND ALSO BY ALGORITHMS INSPIRED BY THE TEACHINGS AND OF OLD CIVILISATIONS PARTICULARLY SUCH AS MATRIARCHATS (OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURES ALGORITHMS ARE NEEDED TO HELP A)VOID THE HUMAN CONDITION FACTOR THAT ULTIMATELY FUCKS UP EVERYTHING AND KEEPS A REGULAR UTOPIA UNSUSTANABLE and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsoDEDAQS28

SESSION 5

pitch for the Eye projecT

A research about the whereabouts of a bust of a family member, my grandfather’s brother, an ex national hero, a communist politician and a whole hearted socialist in the period after the WW2 The bust that was erected on one of the main squares in the town of Sinj that was named after him, disappeared with the new political regimes. I want to find it.

// He helped industrialise the region he grew up in, bringing in the thread factory “ Dalmatinka” in the province of Sinj, and by doing so, producing a significant shift on many levels in the community of the region. The very meaningful one is that it shook the grounds of a too-well-rooted patriarchy; Being a thread factory, the industry had predominantly women employed, women then started wearing pants , driving bicycles.

I'll track the disappearance and record it. Audio video, photo.

I'm doing it because its possibly an interesting little story that deals with collapsing of ideas, decomposing power myths, resurrecting family myths, playing. Will try to leave the drama out. I might even concentrate on the fact that he died the same day I was born, and how I might actually be his reincarnation.

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SESSION SIX

DOING IT.

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