Tooling SpiritStore Projects...
Contextual Enquiry –Transparent, intentional, ethical use of conversation, questioning and survey, public meetings in private spaces, private meetings in public spaces, observation, detailed technical surveying, mapping, tracing, interviews, photography, video, sound recording.
Cultural Probes– Self-conducted notation on points of view and patterns of behavior. Cognitive mapping, visualization, scenario building, reflection and evaluation. (Raby, Dunne and Gaver) Material Culture– Attention to people's relationship to and perception of objects revealing how artefacts figure in peoples lives socially and culturally. Psychogeograpy –‘A whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities...just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape’ Joseph Hart, "A New Way of Walking," UtneReader July/August 2004 Artist as Flâneur -Charles Baudelaire developed a derived meaning of flâneur—that of "a person who walks the city in order to experience it. Find alternative perspectives on everyday experiences. Eg. work journey in a butchers van as a space for dialogue and enquiry in Art Café project… The Dérive - [literally: “drifting”]‘ is ‘a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances’ that involves playful-constructive behaviour and awareness of psychogeographical effects’. The participant of a Dérive must ‘let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there. Guy Debord compares the mindset of the Dérive to those of the ‘ecological science’, and the act of ‘Dérive’ is a tool in the Situationists’ project. Familiar as exchange – Eg. Packet and Tripe - Employing the conventions of domestic, ritualized convivial, alternative or traditional food production and consumption as the intersection of art, labor economics, and the production of social experiences. Shoulder to shoulder – Labour share. Cooperative exchange of skills pulled together. Employing hands on skills, crafting, building, designing, in a collaborative manner. Developing project intentions collaboratively shoulder to shoulder. Performance - Live acts in public spheres = Artist as alchemist, translator, listener, producer, interpreter, voice, director, conductor, anticipator, questioner, actor, witness, clown… Curation - SpiritStore provides structures to catalyze social exchange crossing public, professional and social spheres. We find alternative spaces for audience interaction and use an open-ended curation. Eg. To date we have invited and provided hosting for performances, public talks and meetings on subjects as diverse as Mathematics, Museology, Architecture, Graffiti, Perceptual Psychology, Archaeology, Poetry, Music Composition, New Music, Active Social Spaces, SlackSpaces, Skateboarding, Literature, Artists Collectives, Interaction Design, Choreography, Film Discourse, Script Writing, Games Design, Visual Art, Astronomy, History, Cinema and more Primary Research - Review publications, articles, papers, media coverage to develop current and historical perspective on a variety of topics related to project. Secondary Research - Attending artists talks and lectures, reading and researching current practices in visual arts, design and related fields. Review publications, academic articles, papers from philosophers, theorists and practitioners to develop current and historical perspective. |