A mind map

///A Mind Map

drawing inspired by the article "Body Trouble" by Robert McAnulty

/////////

Abstract

Stage 2 Volume 3

Timetable

/// Weekly timetable of anticipated outcome ///

Week 7:

abstract draft

semester schedule of outcomes

1 short film exploring

1 illustration explaining my understanding of the reading

Week 8:

Presentation 2: A Question

1 model

2 site analysis

1 diagram mapping out works and ideas

presentation draft

Week 9:

respond to the feedbacks from previous week

1 experiment

1 reading respond to the work

1 site analysis

Week 10:

arrangement of works and ideas

2 experiments

Week 11:

first draft for Final Project Proposal

1 experiment

Week 12:

1 experiments

presentation proposal

second draft for Final Project Proposal

outlines and referees for the Research Book 

"First, their writings notwithstanding, Diller and Scofifio's projects do not attempt to replace the Vitruvian figure with another figure. There is no attempt at  renovation nor resuscitation here, no return to figural origins. By confining their focus to a limited number of particular spatial relationships, Diller and Scofidio shift attention from the figural presence of body acting within a world of objects, to the conditions under which the body comes to embody certain social definitions."

Robert McAnulty, Body Troubles, Toward a New Interior - An Anthology of Interior Design Theory, p 64 

 

Notes from open tutorials

"Through this technique of subjection a new object was being formed; slowly, it superseded the mechanical body - the body composed of solids and assigned movements, the image of which had for so long haunted those who dream of disciplinary perfection. This new object is the natural body, the bearer of forces and the seat of duration; it is the body susceptible to specified operations, which have their order, their stages, their internal conditions, their constituent elements....It is the body of exercise rather than speculative physics; a body manipulated by authority, rather than imbued with animal spirits; a body of useful training and not of rational mechanics..."

M. Foucault, Discipline and Punish, p.172 

hipDisk

Danielle Wilde
hipDisk, 2007.

- "hipDisk highlights the body's capacity for motion, bringing visual focus to the mechanical joint between the waist and the hips."
- motion through sound
- musical instrument (music-movement-music)
- positions-notes
- range of motion
- limitation of human sense

Rebecca Horn

Rebecca Horn, «Berlin Exercises in Nine Pieces» Exercise 1: Scratching Both Walls at Once, 1974 – 1975

- body-extensions
- the equilibrium between body and space
- replaces the human body with kinetic sculptures
- define and cut through spaces with reflections of mirrors, light and music (other works)

SWARMnight

"SWARMnight" combined the creative forces for a series of original works that amplify sound, rhythms, and graphic phenomena, in a mesmerising performance at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery."(Hyper Spatiality)

Stage 2 Volume 2

Experience 1 - step up stair case

///
Within stepping up stair case, a pattern of repetition and development were generated, the work visualised the rhythmical movement and the altitude change of body location within time.
///

Experience 1 - step up stair case

///

- Balance between body and space.

- Limitation of body expansion.

- Symmetrical body

- Geometry of body space

///

Before the pieces of paper were teared down, the location of steps were marked on the paper.  The diagraming of body and the diagraming of space can be seen on the same piece of paper. The action(motion) and the space(stillness) co-exist and the are both flattened and frozen.

Be Your Self - Australian Dance Theatre - Diller & Scofidio

Stage 2 Volume 1

A short video respond to former topic "Space is a Choreographer"

////// 
After last week's class, relevant questions were raised, such as:
Can space be a verb?
How can space be a choreographer?
The answers are supposed to be shown in a series of tests in the future projects.
(I really hope so)
//////

This video documented how an individual body navigating through space mapping out the existing site.
After the experiment,  the site was treated basically as a flatened "floor plan".
Any body posture was taken granted as for the scale did not allow details to be seen.

In the second experiment, human scale was more focused on and a series of movement, "trying" to mimic dancing actions in various spaces, were tested out.
The scale of me "dancing" in the each photo was made average.
Different composition of the space were used, such as: layers of swing doors, stage area, different angles of chair tool, reflective glass window.

No key ideas were generated at this point, post-its were used to get inspirations and feed back from class.

Ideas collected from Post-its:
Prosthetic attachment
Long shoe
Tall cone hat
Dust your whole body/costume + Trace movement
Draw space with your feet (attach pencils) + fingers + face
Move like a turtle on the floor

詠春 葉問宗師示範木人樁

Wing Chun - Mu Ren Zhuang///Muk Yan Jong

The video is talking about how space, within the help of "props", can restraint and stimulate the maximum capacity of movement and power. The design of Muk Yan Jong was for the purpose of Kong Fu training and how it is fully human scale; and how the location of the sticks respond to different muscles; and how the apparatus itself is a model of human body are interesting.