In preparation for tonights TINY INVESTIGATIONS meeting.
I have decided to test my ability to improvise!
I am writing some topics down and will ad-lib on each of them.
The subject is rather familiar though: ROOTS, the camp, what was done, how can it help us here, at the Charleston rhizome … which seems to still be one of the most active rhizomes of ROOTS.
- A FIFTEEN MINUTE SLOT FOR EACH PARTICIPANT
- much better than a 5 minute slot!
- yet, what it does best is, for lack of time, to confirm yourself in your own ideas which should, however, from the start, be ready for a challenge, contextualization and updating!
- ROOTS CAMP
- emotional
- active
- no visual arts? Is this accurate?
- QUESTON-RELAY
- successful and well attended.
- We even got some feedback: a bit too undirected. But seemingly only, because unfamiliar to rooters?
- THE USE OF ‘RE’ IN WORDS, VERBS, SENTENCES
- ‘re’ as in renaissance? Make America great again? My point is that we may have to come up with a grammar adapted to the reality of the moment: life is change. (Heraclitus?)
- the Question-Relay process wants to avoid the ‘re’, by giving participants a chance to move the process in other, still untested, directions
- THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ADMIN AND ARTISTS
- actually, between admid – artists – excom
- Angela in search of a ‘a container’, where to expose issues, vent anger, find innovative propositions.
- THE CASE OF GABRIELA WIENER
- HUACO PORTRAITS.
Huacas are sacred spaces where kings, religious characters are burried with ceramic objects of striking power. Precise portraits of real people? Huaco potraits . Wiener sees them as identity pictures belonging to the pre-columbian Moche culture.
From there she builds a whole pre-hispanic portrait of her ancesters, deconstructs the post-hispanic period and comes up with an amazingly clear and powerfully direct understanding of the present.
I found one of her other books translated in English: ‘UNDISCOVERED’, but I chose to buy her latest, translated in French ‘PORTRAITS HUACAS’.