User:Sevgi/Project Proposal
What do you want to make?
Practising aidiyet.
Could be:
- a machine of sorts that used to be old and useless and now it is mine and special and used again and relevant to me.
- "such as repair cafes, care collectives, tool libraries, knowledge preservation, cultural curators, activist groups, and educational programming"
- focusing on and diving deep into a tool of maintenance
- series of workshops that focus on personal items. You bring items, we create care sessions around these instead of making themed care sessions and tying to invite new people for item. We tend to items of active participants.
- practice of maintenance tasks like: cataloguing X, creating/experimenting with digital libs, designing graphic tools of maintenance(grid generator website?)
- practising maintenance through protocols, creating protocols of habits, oop this was already my project in SI27.
- designing different diaries for different needs and times
- making inventories of tools of maintenance, etc. like a general guide or a glossary like Rosa?
- longform performance - pee in a bucket
How do you plan to make it?
I will find something that is obsolete, possibly from the Telecom Museum, then repurpose it. I will give it care by day and the care I give will give it value. I will create this alternative attachment by giving myself a schedule and documenting daily.
What is your timetable?
My time table is 3 months of mending, making, coding.
Why do you want to make it?
Because I want to practice the alternative system of maintenance as well as research it.
Who can help you and how?
Mierle Laderman Ukeles could have helped me.
The maintainers: https://themaintainers.org/study-guide/
Relation to previous practice
During my bachelors thesis I explored ways of crafting that required dedicated hours and a translation of notation. I leaned on the fact that there is a silence in translation that fails to be voiced with words and wanted to create a method through maintenance. I didn't understand it back then but this was my point. Last trimester in EXPUB, I explored and wrote about ways and occupations of maintenance during which I realised that the graphic approach to organising time and dedication to keep record is a form of value that feels now, with a lot of work-around tools like CMS's, AI etc??, underappreciated or avoided even.
Maintenance of Weaving
Maintenance of Machine
Maintenance of Software
Maintenance of Transportation/City/Land
Maintenance of Self
Relation to a larger context
I think my interest relates to a world that disallows me to feel like I might be owning something to my name. What does that mean? To have ownership and how does that relate to authorship? I think this also relates to artists presence as an asset to sell and commodify. I also think that there is a system of migration that traps immigrants everywhere of a regular income, housing, occupation, whereas there are less opportunities of having these rights. I think it is now a little bit more impossible to own a house, a car, a garden, a pet, a book, an article.
References/bibliography
https://themaintainers.org/information-maintainers/
Representing Maintenance: Upkeep as Critical Reading and Writing Practice
https://www.fixerscollective.org/
https://raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/Engl800/Jackson-rethinking-repair.pdf