June 2012
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“I will not say more about where this might have come from, but today, my...”
– jamie lewis; in an essay for penny
May 2012
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email correspondence with xanthe post-previews;...
JAMIE LEWIS <lewis.jme@gmail.com> another thought about live art 3 messages Xanthe Beesley Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:30 AM
To: Jamie Lewis Animat <lewis.jme@gmail.com>
hey luv,
something else that the work made me consider was live art in relationship to story-telling. i think this is not pertinent /important to all ‘live art’ but was interesting for me to consider in...
April 2012
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The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge:... →
streamboatshorebridge:
There is a strange sensation that comes about with something like this, a ‘creative development’.
I feel like it should be called an ‘emotional development’, or I should tell people I’m embarking on a week of ‘emotional creativity’!
I find myself connecting with a bull in the field, or…
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#bundanon with @thesbsb: day one
it was the first work day for us who arrived at bundanon for week 2 of this creative development. and it was good. we were presented with sketches of where the guys were up to. and it was good. we had our thoughts and feedback. we had our questions. and everything was open for discussion. and it was good. it’s 11:11pm as i type this exact line, and amazed as i am at this moment of cosmic...
in the meantime, i've put in an application for... →
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presenting at the Next Wave Festival 2012...
all hands on deck here at http://thesbsb.com/
February 2012
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Transparency Collective: #eugeneochia went on a... →
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When i was asked to try the first task, i was nervous and yet wanting to do it. I too wanted to test my own boundaries being out of place like that. Tho at the same time i knew i can overcome the awkwardness just by throwing myself at it. On top of it, i felt this would be easy. I stood in…
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Transparency Collective: #playdate with... →
transparencycollective:
i went on a play date with @eugeneochia today.
in a crowded underpass and on a busy street at almost peak hour, i tried the following two tasks:
1. stand in a crowded place with your eyes closed for a length of time
2. catch up with someone walking ahead of you, and walk next to them for the…
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Transparency Collective: #takingshape @transcoll →
transparencycollective:
the work is taking shape.
without quite planning to, my interest in allan kaprow’s later works is finding its way into this research: the idea, a suggestion, a task, an activity - the participant performing.
it is also my physical distance. what does it mean to research a common subject with the…
an interesting read from an interesting community... →
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Transparency Collective: the flip side to the gay... →
transparencycollective:
the flip side to the gay chicken is equally as interesting; but in a how rather than a why way…the how of gay chicken is clear, its a remarkably simple exercise. the reason it works its because its so short and sharp of an experience, just enough to provoke a brief panic within the engineered and…
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nicolas bourriaud; relational aesthetics →
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Transparency Collective: Critical Boundary →
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“…the study of [humanity]’s transactions as he perceives and uses intimate, personal, social, and public space in various settings while following out of awareness dictates of cultural paradigms.”
the stimulus for our upcoming project as part of the metro arts galleries program, linked here.
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read the essay
transparencycollective:
A System for the Notation of Proxemic Behaviour - by Edward T. Hall
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context and then, form
not being able to back in australia, much less brisbane, was and is a huge consideration. how do i be present in a space that i am absent from? and more so, how live can it be?
also, quite naturally, the context of my part of this joint research project has to be relative to my being in singapore over this period of time. this environment and this society that i have been and am currently a part...
January 2012
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Also, Transparency Collective is going to be back at !Metro Arts, this time in the Galleries Program!
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today, a friend brought up the myer briggs personality tests. i remember doing it back in secondary school as part of some leadership thing. i am quite distinctively an ENFP and part of that is not following through on things…
hence the somewhat absence.
but the brains have never stopped ticking away with ideas and reflections. the heart has never stopped desiring to create. now the body...
December 2011
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November 2011
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a level of transparency: vca animateurs...
[Appointments were made at an earlier time, and I meet the audience member at designated time and place. I take them on a journey towards the photo booth, stopping at street benches at times]
My family has a culture almost, of moving houses.
[With a google map of yishun]
When I was born, we were living in Block 202 but we apparently moved out when I was one. We were at Block 647 for nine...
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excerpt from performance piece during metroarts...
This lift is one of the oldest lifts still intact in Brisbane. It is kept as a heritage “monument.” It is interesting how we try to preserve a little of our history through these old buildings, now etched between towers of concrete, steel and glass.
And yet, we can never really retain its original form. We have to add on these labels of care, or new interfaces of these lift buttons, or a...
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ruminating city shrines: dwelling in non-spaces
coming soon.
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ruminating city shrines: where do we remember?
Where is my Space? Where can I stake claim?
In Singapore, one can own many things – property, more property and cars and boats and expensive things – but one can never really own your own land. For such a small country, (re)development and (re)building is a constant. This means even if you supposedly buy a freehold property, chances are the state will be able to successfully bid for it if it was...
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ruminating city shrines
Earlier this year, Kieran and I began a series of conversations about the City. With my work already ruminating the Self against the City – our identity in our remembering and forgetting of the city in which we traverse through daily – I said yes to Kieran’s invitation to a city date.
We walked. We spent an afternoon walking. We knew the (eventual) out come would be a series of public art. We...
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city shrines: paper pinwheel project
small things things you don’t always notice, not always at least. kinder surprises in little nooks and crannies; shrines, odes to our dwelling in the city – pay homage to the earth we don’t see; the dirt we walk into our homes.
October 2011
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so some things changed and didn’t quite work out as imagined.
my portfolio this year seems to have shrunk when i didn’t make it to Crack and Punctum, but in just the last 2 weeks, i have met some very interesting folks at Port Tumasik, and have quite seamlessly found myself involved in. a little more than that actually, i do feel like i am a part of them now. a Port, using the image...
September 2011
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daily discourse at TINA →
forgive my absence. and my lack of creative writing or any sort.
in the whirlwind of the last 2 months plus since the show at dear patti smith,i’ve gone up to South Golden Beach round Byron Bay, got engaged, gone back to singapore, worked at a cafe, planned a wedding long distance, got a grant, had my travel visa to australia actually denied, lost a grant, changed my wedding plans, started...
June 2011
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silence as a form
“…and as the vocabulary of things was renewed with new samples of merchandise, the repertory of mute comment tended to become close, stable. The pleasures of falling back on it also diminished in both; in their conversations, most of the time, they remained silent and immobile”
- Invisible Cities, Italo Calvinho
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meditations
“Whatever country my words may evoke around you, you will see it from such a vantage point, even if instead of the palace there is a village on pilings and the breeze carries the stench of a muddy estuary.”
“My gaze is that of of a man meditating, lost in thought - i admit it. But yours? You cross archipelagos, tundras, mountain ranges. you would do as well never moving from here.”
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post dinner musings
It was a very invigorating day two for me. At the Free Range dinner last night, each provocateur brought with them a question to the table as a way of provoking dialogue between the different artists.
The night left me feeling very charged, with adrenaline, conviction and more so, affirmation, that the Transparency Collective is the community of artists I want to be in and with.
On...
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the old and the new and the me in between
There are old things and there are new things.
Buildings from the late 80s, early 90s sit next to the glossy glass-fronted ones with little heritage ones etched between these massive towers of concrete and steel.
The Metro Arts building houses the oldest lift (still) in Brisbane and Charlotte house, a sister building by the same architect now has a modern, functional goods and service...
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The game as a vehicle
I thoroughly enjoyed the moments when it was quiet, and we were both concentrating on the game, when we muttered our counting of our steps and frowned a little when we had to decide between two options. In the silence, I saw each one of them remembering the game – the lightness of the relief of grasping the game again, and the weight of the memory of when they had last played a game of Backgammon....
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Problematising the One-on-one Part I
At EL TARRO I was able to trial a first draft of the Backgammon piece. The context of this season of EL TARRO was rather different though.
They collaborated with the Samba Cine Club and organised a bigger event at thousandpoundbend in the city. The vibe was great, the event successful, especially since enough people who paid $10 at the door had attended and they could pay each of the performers...