first of all, a very short article on the Psychotropic Houses
Prompt
It would indeed be very interesting to create a space (place/apparatus/device...?) which actually does control people.
You will have to study in depth the notion of control, especially control in urban environment, and control by political powers.
Here a list of articles to read :
- http://thefunambulist.net/2011/10/12/deleuze-foucault-and-the-society-of-control/
- http://thefunambulist.net/2011/02/22/philosophy-control-and-becoming-a-conversation-between-toni-negri-and-gilles-deleuze/
- http://thefunambulist.net/2011/08/05/politics-when-the-city-itself-becomes-a-technology-of-war-by-saskia-sassen/
- http://thefunambulist.net/2011/04/17/literature-cinema-the-kafkaian-immanent-labyrinth-as-a-postmortem-dream/
- http://thefunambulist.net/2011/08/25/guest-writers-essays-09-becoming-fugitive-carceral-space-and-rancierean-politics-by-maryam-monalisa-gharavi/
- http://thefunambulist.net/2011/04/01/philosophy-a-thousand-machines-by-gerald-raunig/
Now, how do you approach this site? The elements there? Are you interested in a specific craft, a system to use, a material, a physical property?...
What would this structure relate to?
How can the installation on the given site reach larger territories? have a larger impact?
Does it need to, or would it be a personal experience, a sort of self-realization (the awareness of some fears and reflexes in us, which, when stimulated ....)
Pimmy
Now that you have these 2 interests clearly in place, it is time to create the link between them.
You will not simply propose a vehicle, and not merely a mythical beast either.
Rather your vehicle (which could also be a spiritual vehicle, and even both spiritual (psychological) and physical) will be developed as you create the god-monster of the pond.
You have identified the characteristics of these animals, now it is time to see the monstrous hybrid (the mythical beast we talked about already) that you can create from those. Like the half-man-half-horse, half-fish-half-bird (and Garuda, the vehicle of Shiva).... but in your case, a quarter-pigeon-quarter-squirrel-quarter....
Now, work on drawing them (maybe modeling them) extracting the organs which could be useful for the vehicle (useful and also evocative, or simply decorative), and you can make several proposition (play with it!), even looking at the insects on the site ...
Then you will continue and create a vehicle from this work (but do not start by it, your proposal will get super poor (as the one you refer to!) if you do so) - and then we will start thinking about what could be the belief (the mythical story to create or rather to extract from the current situation) around this beast.
A
Your intentions and researches already are extremely interesting - really develop them into a proposal now!
How do you get people involved ("mind/perception/self") with this phenomenon?
(How) would they start climbing up? How many minutes, hours, days, months... would they spend ascending?
How do you sustain their lives, through destruction and creation?
Have you started working on the physical structure enabling the ascension and possibly the change of water's state? Are you looking at technologies to create the different types of cloud? Or speculating on what is already (naturally) there..? Or both? Or deforming / exaggerating / experimenting / modifying / inventing other types of cloud...?
Then, when and how does the virtual reality take place?
At this altitude, and even before actually, the body has to adapt, in phases/pauses of a certain duration (i know it from my recent experience during the workshop in India...!) You should be aware of the psychological effects of being at such altitude and make use of them (perception and interpretations will be altered from the usual state we are in on the ground - the lack of oxygen also has strong effects on us - like being under the influence of specific drugs)
Actually you will probably need to provide specific drugs (drugs are, before anything, medicine) in order for people to survive (psychologically and physically).
Make the best use of it and include it in your proposal (as a plausible experience, not necessarily a suicidal one!)
Dream
Good summarize of extensive research!
Maybe you spent a little too much time spent on de-mystifying (valuable attitude though, but rarely productive)... unless you would like to make this part of your project?
What are you working on now?
How will you develop this research? What physical properties (of water, of the moon (light, attraction...) can you manipulate? Into what kind of experience?
Have you made sketches? written down ideas? please do so, as a draft... we really need to move on now!
and now, to all
I was expecting to meet with you tomorrow at school... but we just have been informed that the school will remain closed until next week.
For the ones in BKK and willing to, i still offer to give physical tutorials (very much needed for the ones who do not post anything...)
Please let me know if
yes/no
where
when
Thank you and good luck!
