hands, threads, thoughts

Experimental Bobbin Lace MakingCan the practice and performance of bobbin lace making make ‘thinking through making’ visible?

(Nodal) Writing PracticeHow can (the concept of) bobbin lace making inform my writing practice in terms of language, structure, thinking, and intertwinement of practice and theory?

Exercise Nr 1 Imagine we are gathering here because the academic community exhausted all that can be said and done to define artistic research. We are forced to enter a new state of after artistic research: We don’t talk ABOUT it anymore, we focus on the doing. We implement artistic research practice radically. Exercise Nr 3 Think of a movement connected to your practice.Imagine yourself performing this movement.What does it feel like?Imagine every one else in this room performing your movement.What do you notice?

Exercise Nr 1Take a piece of thread. Visit https://thedynamicarchive.net/component/scores-of-mattersThink of movements connected to your practice.Work on the piece of thread with your movement/your artistic research gesture.Relate to the tampon and the teabag.'From teabag we move to tampon from tampon we jump to cotton and cotton looks like little clouds.'Explore the interconnectedness of the components.Implement the discussion of the components radically in your practice.Make your exploration visible with your hands, threads and thoughts.Let it linger.End by letting it become something else.

TimingFungi magic: The magic of fungi manifests in myriad ways. When you go looking for mushrooms, you enter a world of wanderlust, with a focus of finding something. This leads to a hypnotic yet fully awake state. Time stretches, senses sharpen. The further into the forest you go, the more immersed you are in this state. Some mushrooms are masters of timing. They wait for a long time, deep in the soil, to push out to the surface very fast, when the circumstances are just so.  [1] Exercise Nr 8 Perform the movement connected to your practice.But before you make it,wait for the breathing to change,wait for your companion’s reaction,wait for your pinky toe feeling weird,,wait for some thing,wait for a second thought,wait until you are ready.Then,perform your fungi magic gesture.---[1] cf. Hirvanen, Neklyaeva: Practical Performance Magic, Finland 2023

TimeWork, opposite to the conception of time as an instrument of measuring efficiency. Recurring Exercise Nr XRemember your own practice.Envision a peer discussion implemented in practice.

Creating a Container of TimeTime-as-experience is based on duration and moves in pockets of times and movements.In academia time is short always.Set a duration. Communicate the duration. Keep the promise of duration.Container of time Nr2:Tasks: form five groups and discuss your pieces of thread through the way you connect them witheach other: Intertwine, knot, twist, cross, enmesh, interlace,…Rules: use movements that you learned from your own practiceLimit: 5 mins 

Exercise Nr 3Take pen and paper.Place them next to you. Make yourself comfortable.Visit https://thedynamicarchive.net/component/takerestgif'Take the Valerian-infused GIF of 'natural answers' and non-magical to-do's disguised as dreams offline.Grab it onto your desktop and⎻-⎻let⎻-it-⎻do--⎻⎻⎻-nothing⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽⎽.'Relax. Nap.Dream.Napping is beautiful. Things happening in your life enter dreaming, creating connections that are unexpected. At times you wake up, snoring or letting your mouth open, but possessing a completely different narrative from everyone else, with vines growing from the waking world directly into your dreams. Let them grow wild. By falling asleep during doing this exercise you open doors in-between. Take pen and  paper and write down your 'dreamlike relation to narrative'.Imagine--⎻⎺⎺⎻--⎻⎻⎻⎽__⎽--⎻⎺⎺⎻⎺⎻⎽⎽--⎽-----letting ghosts⎻⎺⎺⎻-- into⎻⎺⎺⎻ the⎽--⎺peer community, ⎻⎺⎻⎽⎽connecting_⎽--⎻worlds. 

Exercise Nr 2Visit https://thedynamicarchive.net/component/the-coordination-of-unintention…Take your piece(s) that came out of Exercise Nr 1.Chop it into pieces.Create an unintentional pattern.Copy your unintentional pattern.Repeat to copy your unintentional pattern and change one little thing each time of repetition.What relationships can you trace back? What changes? What stays? How does it transform?