User:Chae0/Final presentation

Intimate Publishing

During the first individual assessment, Steve Rushton—an XPUB tutor for the ‘Reading, Writing and Research Methodologies’ seminar—told me ‘an invitation of intimacy’ seemed to be a recurring theme in my work. Since then, feeling quite content with this keyword, I have started to think of my practice through ‘intimacy’(1). Also during the second assessment, Winnie Soon—the external examiner—asked "What constitutes intimacy for you?". This question made me restructure my thesis around intimacy. Looking back, XPUB gave space for me to try out what I've always imagined in my head. Whether that is whispering through the bread, connecting all the headphones, wearing window glasses, etc... I become aware of the technologies and tools around me, and I always felt enthusiastic about learning how we use these technologies and give them a little twist.

(1) Spark(l)ing Curiosities'·*:.。. .。.:*· ゚゚·* : Through Intimate Publishing 。. .。, Chaeyoung Kim, p. 4

Special Issue

• ETC Portal to Contamination
• X-Kitchen / Fage Not Pound / Karaoke
• Excuse me, Excuse me
• Critical and Intimate Evaluation of Crunchiness (SI18)

Seemingly Random but Not so Random

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To me, drawing is a tactic/an attitude to keep me sane and caring, be in the moment, to be playful. 

Taking pictures and videos

On a daily basis, I take a lot of pictures. (I have 17,235 photos and 2,133 videos atm, 15-06-2023) This is one of the core activities/practices of my research. Documenting and collecting. For these two years, through card making for friends and families, or poster making for the breakfast club, I found my way to revisit and repurpose these photos.

Card Making

picture taking is connected to this because I somehow found a way to make use of those pictures. Making my own connections, revisiting what fascinated me in each imagery.

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Station Skills

I have always been drawn to materials and surroundings. With my phone or my notebook, I observe, zoom in, and document what is around me. Over the years, these activities have deepened my interest in finding the right format for an abstract idea and matching content to specific material. This translation—translating an abstract idea into the material and vice versa—is an important part of my practice and what excites me. So I was thrilled to have access to all the different station skills the school provided. Adding to this, as a Non-EU student, I paid LOTS OF tuition fees. So, getting the most out of this institution was also the reason why I took dozens of station skills...

Just playing with machines and making cute objects, I could finally explore a wide range of materials (which was not possible for me in Korea), and use different machines (Riso printers, 3D printers, laser cutter, plotting machine, kiel, throwing wheel, heat press, etc.)

As a continuation, I would love to deepen my research on how each format can encapsulate the idea, yield its affective power, and thus create a temporal space to connect and care for each other.

Start to having fun with writing

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Thesis: Spark(l)ing Curiosities'·*:.。. .。.:*· ゚゚·* : Through Intimate Publishing 。. .。

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Intimacy is a powerful feeling that can disarm our cold cold hearts.
Intimacy is a tactic to create an imaginary and temporary space.
Intimacy is a way to create a space for ‘us’.
Intimacy is a strategy to encourage caring minds and embrace otherness.
Intimacy is an ambivalent space, not only embracing positive feelings but also negative ones.
Intimacy is about practicing slowness.
Intimacy is about paying attention to the fragilities around us.
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[My notes on intimacy while working on the thesis]

Minor Stories

Minor Stories is a multi-method publishing project giving space to vulnerable and intimate feelings that people experience yet often brush aside. In this project, I intend to share vulnerable feelings in the format of storytelling and explore various intimate storytelling methodologies encompassing many forms: from physical props to digital technologies. By doing so, I will propose intimate ways of storytelling as a careful and affective publishing methodology, which I term ‘intimate publishing’. How will people react if I whisper stories of my ugly-competitive side through the body of bread? What kind of thoughts and emotions will occur if they read marginalized experiences from the gutter of a book? Will people open up and share their intimate stories as well? How can I disarm our cold, cold hearts and allow us to be more curious and caring? Can intimate publishing provide methods that shift audience and storyteller from a binary opposition of 'you' and 'me' to 'we' to make space for minor stories?

small, clumsy, and intimate devices for awkward hybrid settings / with grgr

In-Between Media: Hybrid Tactics in the Crisis Era | Amsterdam @Framer Framed, meeting room | 10th March 2023, 12:45-15:45
This workshop was part of a two-day conference, In-Between Media: Hybrid Tactics in the Crisis Era

Wait. How are hybrid settings actually affecting the way we sense others’ presence in public events? How can we bring intimacy when hybrid media interrupt instead of facilitating modes of togetherness? In this three-hour workshop, participants can build their own small, clumsy, and intimate devices to hijack the idea of hybridity. The devices will be physically built to be used during the following ‘plenary closing sessions’, both online and offline.

• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/awkward_hybrid_publishing
  [PAD for the workshop]
• https://networkcultures.org/goinghybrid/2023/03/30/workshop-clumsy-devices-for-awkward-hybrid-settings-conference-report-day-2/
  [The review of the workshop, written by Senka Milutinović]

Some thoughts 🤔 and highlights ⚠️

• Etherpad as a script for the workshop: Basically, we prepared the pad, which worked as a script for the whole workshop. Participants were invited to play different roles(ex. narrator, title, backgroundmusic, etc.).
• the power of creating an excuse, or a moment to share great(?) awkward anecdotes: one of the highlights was definetely when participants were asked to pick one awkward experience in attending hybrid events during COVID. By sharing funny, awkward, tragic, uncomfortable, sad moments together, I felt some sort of bonding was forming within the group.
• the magic of making small things with cheesy music: For the last part of the workshop, we all worked on building small, intimate and clumsy tools that could be used to face the awkwardness together. With the sudden March snow in the background, we were making tools while listening to Christmas-like music. It really felt like a holiday.

Street-Vendor Publisher / with Supi

[Today's Obsession(!!!): marshmallows and royal icing served on a cookie]

Not Just A Fair 2023 | Arnhem @P--OST | 7 - 9th April

Two cooking-drawing-publishing amateurs join forces to amplify and share their obsessions for sugar-based materials as publishing ingredients. Today's Obsession(!!!): marshmallows and royal icing served on a cookie. 

How do we bind these obsessions together? With these keywords: affordable, accessible, DIY, DIWO, edible-adhesive, transformative, and festive! 

Curious to give these publications a taste? Push the button to collect a unique edible sculpture-drawing.

Some thoughts 🍪 and highlights ✨

• marshmallow as transparent glue: The interesting part of marshmallow for me was 1) different shades of color(white-golden-darker brown), 2) shininess, 3) opacity and transparency, 4) volume and lightness, and 5) streaks of sugar strands. I would like to bring the glue-sticky-feature of marshmallow forefront. [excerpts from DIYry with Supi]
• working together with Supi: I thought her way of working with cookies was amazing and inspiring because I felt that her goal was not necessarily on making these cookies appealing/delicious, but really on working with tools and materials. [excerpts from DIYry with Supi]

[Today's Obsession(!!!): sparkles and cookies](working title)

XPUB GRADUATION SHOW & SHOP | Rotterdam @Slash Gallery | 29th June - 2nd July

Two cooking-drawing-publishing amateurs join forces to amplify and share their obsessions for ____________ as publishing ingredients. Today's Obsession(!!!): __________ with a cookie. 

How do we bind these obsessions together? With these keywords: affordable, accessible, DIY, DIWO, edible-adhesive, transformative, and festive! 

Curious to give these publications a taste? Push the button to collect a loose cookie

Some thoughts 🍪 and highlights ✨

• Obsession
• loose cookie, cookie as a crumb

Hello, tomorrow is Wednesday and it's the Breakfast Club day ٩(^‿^)۶ / with grgr and many others

"The Breakfast Club (TBC)... is a collective morning ritual happening almost every Wednesday from 9:30-11:00 at the corner of XPUB studio. Its intention is to bring XPUB 2 together who will focus more on individual works for the upcoming year, but it's open to others. During TBC, we share coffee, have breakfast together, wake up, daydream and talk about STUFFS." (https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/breakfast-club/)

[FAQ.] Q. What is the STUFF we are going to talk about? Anything! Since it's a weekly thing, 'the STUFF' depends on what occupies our minds. If you are curious about what happened during the previous breakfast club(s)... so far, we read some excerpts of your favorite books or shared our struggles on a graduation project or writing a thesis. Oh, sometimes we didn't even talk that much and instead did dishes and cleaned the studio. We'd like to invite you to TBC also as an occasion to get to know each other, as it doesn't happen so often to meet up across masters. [excerpts from PIET, the zine made by PZI-Archipelago]

Some thoughts 🤔 and highlights☀️

some mashup of breakfast club posters

• making the weekly poster:Depending on the mood, or workload, either one of us, grgr or chae, made the weekly poster. it was the perfect excuse(?) for me to revisit all the pictures I took. Some of the constraints were... (1) use pictures in my album (mostly taken by me or grgr, but sometimes a picture by someone else) (2) do not open the computer (3) use telegram drawing tools, photo editing tools on your phone, or sometimes Instagram story editing tools to draw.

• What does it mean to build a habit?: Maybe a little bit of force is good: It's like right before you go to the gym, yoga, or swim... you know you would love it, but right before going, you think 'Ugh, I have other things to do... Maybe i can skip just this weekkkk....' But whenever I felt this way, erica would text me Tuesday night "hey, shall i make the poster?"

• when it's combined with outside(?) events/communities: Such as... (1)the International Trans ★ Feminist Digital Depletion Strike @VARIA (2) education morning with Lidia and Joseph (3) joined TBC, the breakfast club open for all the masters, together with PZI-Archipelago group

• I reflected a lot on what it means to host something every week involving others' participation. You cannot expect others to join every week. Some days are full, and some days not so much. Hmm, I don't know, sometimes I felt responsible to go to the studio, turning on the breakfast club lamp, and just being there.

• the importance/power of cleaning: Usually, when no one is at the studio I would start the breakfast club with cleaning.