Wahlwoche SS09 – Merz Akademie, Stuttgart (May 2009)
After experimenting with all kinds of borders, boundaries and limitations during this week. We saw something happening, that we didn’t really expect. continue reading…
The outcome of our project in deed raised more new questions to us than it has answered –
still the experience in dealing with tasks out of several aspects was very interessting and enlightening for us though.
Yesterday evening, some of your films where shown in the OSP Technicolor Screencast. This event was part of the festival Imaginary Property, organised by Nova Cinema in Brussels.
More images of the event: http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=25776
Updated specifications:
Bring a hollow object with one opening.
It should be cylindrical or tapered, watertight and clean, heat resistant and hold up to 30 cl of liquid.
The opening should be as wide as the objects’ largest diameter.
Dimensions: up to 30 cm³
We divided the reader. Here some notes from our discussion:
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Conversion as a result of a bug in the rule (filed by Stefano): to be functional as a pudding mould, the object does not need to be cylindrical, it just needs to be able to hold liquid (yes, we’re preparing jelly for tomorrow!).
Bring a hollow object with one opening.
It should be cylindrical or tapered, watertight and clean.
The opening should be as wide as the objects’ largest diameter.
Dimensions: up to 30 cm³
Draw one line for 1/1.5 hours without your pen leaving the paper. You may stop for max. 5 sec. without lifting the pen. Don’t cross another line.
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Wir starteten bei dem Projekt des 7. Aprils “Four long lines”.
Aus dieser Idee der langen Linien heraus entwickelten wir ein Spiel bei dem wir zwar immernoch eine Linie haben, diese aber unterbrochen wird.
In unserem Spiel gibt es nur drei feste Konstanten:
1. das Format des Spielfeldes, ein Rechteck, das das Spiel begrenzt.
2. das Format der Post-its.
3. die einzige Spielregel, die besagt, das jeder Zug vier Schritte beinhaltet: zwei nach rechts oder links und zwei nach vorne oder hinten. Jeder Schritt ist so groß wie ein Post-it und geht immer vom letzten geklebten Post-it aus.
Jeder der fünf Spieler hat eine andere Post-it-Farbe und der Spieler der zuerst keinen neuen Post-it mehr kleben kann, weil alle Möglichkeiten schon belegt sind, hat verloren. Die anderen spielen weiter.
Hier unser Ergebnis:
Subject: Re: Re-Conditional Design Tuesday
From: Edo Paulus
To: snelting@collectifs.net
Cc: email@poly-luna.com, me@jonathanpuckey.com, roel@xelor.nl
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 14:07:04 +0200
Hey Femke,
Thanks for the info/link.
I think I can speak for all of us and tell you we're very curious about the results and responses.
We might link to your documentation, or put some on our site, if that's ok with you and the students?
Awaiting the documentation...
Good luck,
Edo.
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Objet: Re-Conditional Design Tuesday
De: snelting@collectifs.net
Date: Mar 26 mai 2009 11:30
À: email@poly-luna.com
edo@eude.nl
me@jonathanpuckey.com
roel@xelor.nl
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Hello
Just a short message to let you know that this Tuesday you will not be alone 
Three groups / thirteen students are re-enacting their favourite conditional design exercises today, as part of the workshop 'Corset, Skeleton, Skin' I'm teaching here at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart (I talked to Jonathan about it). They've agreed to send you documentation and responses to the manifesto, but it will probably take a few days. Some documentation from the workshop here: http://snelting.domainepublic.net/corsets
Curious about the results and what they will find out!
best + thanks,
Femke
Form three groups. Each group selects an exercise from http://www.conditionaldesign.org, and repeats the experiment (also documentation).
Questions after the re-run:
Esther Ferrer
Re-enacting the performance Walking is the Way by Spanish artist Esther Ferrer. Video documentation of the work, performed in Rio de Janeiro in 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6pQyJn0sc4
Tight Lacers
“I am in charge of figures”,
she explained,
“I am in charge of the shop-girls working at a rather large establishment in London.”
She had been employed there since 1890, and in a journal she kept names and measurements of more than a hundred girls.
Entwerfen Sie eine Schablone (Grundgerüst, Form, Vorlage, System. Programm, Cliché, Werkzeug, Standard, Raster (Gitter), Format, Regeln, Skript… ) und wenden Sie an:
Design a template (corset, mould, recipe, system, program, cliché, tool, standard, grid, format, ruleset, script, …) and apply it to: the right content, the wrong content, random content.
