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Ten artists from 3.9 Collective explore the concept of Hiraeth, the exodus of African Americans from San Francisco, and its lasting effects on art, community, and perceptions of home: bit.ly/1FsJ22t
You create a set of predefined filters throughout your life. Every moment becomes subject to them. You will place each moment in one category or the other.
Your filters communicate to you the inherent value of an occurring moment. Whatever the value it has will affect your feelings about it. You will experience everything that happens in your life whether it’s career, relationships, finances or leisure in a particular way. This defined viewpoint is your perception.
Everyday this evaluation process will create the positive or negative perceptions you have. Does all of this mean you are an automated robot that only processes data? No.
With your perception comes the ability to make “free will” choices. Those choices then help to create your reality.
Model: Elise
Hair and Makeup: Elise and Kelsey
Styling: Me
Photo and Post-Processing: Me
these photos were taken in my kitchen in front of a black backdrop, using a garage spotlight with a diffuser and reflector
A sign of change. Thirty days from the winter solstice we are beginning to see the first signs of the approaching winter season.
photo attribution: sean dreilinger durak.org
Fallen Star on Jacobs School of Engineering
(meet your guide near the stone bear at your ticket time)
A small home appears to have been picked up by some mysterious force and dropped onto the seventh floor of Jacobs Hall at UCSD. Artist Do Ho Suh?s exhibit Fallen Star reflects his on-going exploration of themes around the idea of home, cultural displacement, the perception of our surroundings, and how one constructs a memory of a space. Both very public and extremely personal, the unique space requires you to adjust, both mentally and physically, to your surroundings. As you explore the tilted miniature home and surrounding garden you also explore the concept of how your home and your culture become a part of you, and the disruption and displacement caused by a change in environment. Susan Goulian and Mary Beebe, Director of the Stuart Collection at UCSD will be your guides. As an added benefit, those with tickets for this experience during the lunch break will have the opportunity to interact with speaker Sarah Susanka, a thought leader for the ?Not So Big House? and ?Not So Big Life? movement.
Cappy Counard
Perceptions, 2011
14k gold, sterling silver, meerschaum stone, pearl
1 ¼” x 2 ¼” x 2 ¼”
Photo: Robert Mullen
“The material basis of media technologies – and books are only one example – is changing, for which historical perspectives might give not only comforting back-up (‘nothing is as permanent as change’) but also ideas to push the change forward.” (Jussi Parikka, 2012)
We can certainly talk about change; our present landscape is a space where the digital and physical have become synonymous, which many believe to be signaling the coming of an ontology-less future, through the accelerated disruption of cultural value. In this light old standards show their age and obsolescence in the face of the new, and with each new wave of informational overload we are further alienated by the system, that revolves around an economy of monetary circulation. All these factors come together to push a re-evaluation of identity and the human value. This brings to mind the genealogy of currency, articulated by Joseph Beuys during the discussion entitled What is money? : “Of course ‘Geld’ [‘money’] comes from ‘Gold’, same etymology. But it comes equally from ‘Geltung’ [‘validity’], meaning the value people fix based on their perception of a natural right. The word ‘Geltung’ is rooted in representations of a natural right, while the word ‘Gold’ is rooted in the economy of barter!” (Joseph Beuys, 2012).
In this light, Geltung [validity]: perception of a natural right brings together four artistic investigations that re-evaluate established methods of financial exchange bestowing new material values and identities to their subjects. In a landscape where monetary currency is pinnacle, the artists interrogate notions of personal and individual history, locality and its impact in identity and the framework that contains our cultural objects.
Diogo da Cruz’s work, WORDCOIN (2016 – Current), proposes the implementation of a new currency, that will give a literal value to each one’s speech. By creating The Bank for Argumentation, the costumer-museum-goer will have the opportunity to trust his or hers arguments to an institution that can save and trade them, giving the deserved and objective exposure to their ideas. Max Dovey presents Breath (BRH) (2017), a digital currency that is mined through human respiration. The installation combines breathing and micro-computers to mine, store and trade human breath as a virtual currency on the crypto-market(s). The market value of BRH is determined by the inflation created by respiratory miners who participate in the physical installation. Felicity Hammond’s artworks draws upon images from her own archive, using documents of the landscape and found images online; those of both existing and imagined future spaces. Hammond utilises particular motifs and structures that respond specifically to the digital representations found online of Dundee’s vast regeneration programme. For I keep forgetting I’ve been to Tokyo: GAIDEN (2017), Petra Szemán follows the virtual self through parallel and intersecting realities, along the departure-initiation-return structure of a hero’s journey. Drawing upon personal and/or constructed experiences, the work explores the idea of a non-localised identity that’s an archive of accumulated personal mythologies acquired from a multitude of realities.
An offline/online exhibition curated by Alejandro Ball and Inês Costa
Opening night: 27 October 2017, 7pm – 9pm
Performance part of NEoN Festival: 9 November 2017, 7pm – 8pm
Supported by Creative Scotland, University of Dundee and Leisure and Culture Dundee
although I knew this all along, but I was still surprised to see how the upbringing, surroundings, lifestyle and social status of a person can blind them to things of a different social level. To someone who is brought up in a well-to-do family, and has a good education, smooth career, will probably not understand how old folks lead their lives, living in their 2/3/4 rooms flats. Lonely, sick and waiting for death to come. We ought to have a better age-reinvigorate mechanism in Singapore, so that old age will mean getting a new lease of life, and not about downgrading your designation/ pay and work till 62, till you drop.