Carlos Llerena Aguirre. Waiting. Sketchbook Pen and Ink. 10 x 14". 8 x 12" 2022.
Drawings made during absolute silence for an entire day based on the meditation exercise of Ernesto Pujol.
SLOW PRACTICES IN ART AND RESEARCH: WAITING, OBSERVING, REFLECTING WITH ELENA MARCHEVSKA & RACHEL EPP BULLER
Time is defined as the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present and future regarded as a whole. But what do we do with that rather luxurious concept of the whole? What is time, and how should we spend it? How does time relate to our
art and research? What about the cyclical notion of time?
In this workshop we will explore slow practices and how they relate to time and waiting.
REQUIRED READINGS
Read this short piece/interview with Ernesto Pujol, including spending (several hours, half a day, a day) in silence as Pujol requests, and then introduce yourself to the group by describing what you noticed / how you experienced that time of silence.
Ernesto Pujol on the Opportunity Presented to Us During a Time of Collective Confinement
Ernesto Pujol discusses interactive exercises. About 10 of them, to get in solitude, in absolute silence for an entire day.
“I am what's said before we decide either to save the planet or destroy it.We should pause for a moment of silence.”
And to initiate a state of meditation. And under the present confinement that we're living through COVID. And what do we do when the pandemic recedes? The response os to renter regular routine life slowly. The exercise involves coming home to pause and write about it and commit to a thought that we have just experienced. But we need to write it in the form of thinking. We can also fast some if we can. Drink water and nap and drink some more. And then continue to see what is it that we have discovered about ourselves through silence.
Michelle Boulous Walker, Slow Philosophy: Reading Against the Institution.London,
Oxford, New York, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, p.8-32
In the opening. of philosophy as a way of life. Slow reading. Slow philosophy. There is a quote from Arendt, 1969. “Where in the city? A stroller or a flag? Strolling through the crowds, but he's the only one that gets it. among this the Big city”. There is a commentary. By Heidegger, And it's interesting comment about good art. And good philosophy. Takes place when we stop and rethink and slow down. A meditative practice. Praxis by Stieglitz. He called it “meditative art.” Where he literally photographs a few things over and over for 50 years. The slow reading suggests a positive kind of reading. And engaged in open reading that gains much for taking its time. In Europe in the 20th century sometimes the concept of slowness was seen as evil, not practical, and not able to complete tasks. Speed is a virtue. In Gilchrist observation of the two. brain hemispheres there's an interesting difference between the two where attention is given to the world in a different way. Slow reading increases and adds more understanding of slow philosophy. The slow cure is all important, according to Wittgenstein. In his lectures. On the foundations of mathematics. According to him It's very important to have meditative reflectiveness and take your time as you write it. Virginia Woolf in her essay of 1925. How should one read a book? She points out that it's very important to be slow and meditative in an attitude in which more comprehension can take place of deeper understanding. Peggy Kamuf in 2000 The end of Reading. She points out that these scientific model of reading is essentially an information technology. Also, this is placed by Peggy Kamuf. as a very important discovery. Later there is a. discussion on the production of presence, and our broad present. Author Gumbrecht relates time to make a difference between understanding and reading, and point out that philosophy should be a way of life. Reading from stopping. To be quiet for a moment. Amid the world of technology and epistemology. For this is very important in teaching as well. Teaching of the future is what Gumbercht points out that it will be very important.
Nietzsche also proposes reading slowly. Jean Francois Leotard discuss is not to interpret, interpret what we read. And it's going to be affected by writing. Brazilian author Louise Costa Lima also presents slow reading. Something very important. Slow reading. Has an inflection in the work of loose and the readings of philosophical texts in 93 she points out that it's important to read slowly. Costa Lima proposes how to read as a spiritual exercise. Slowly, slow reading. Opens the mind completely.
Ellen Samuels is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In her article six ways of looking at crypto, she describes. How? How is Crip Time? How i has operated in her life? Not as a form of liberation, but also also as a site of loss. Creep time is a concept arising from the disabled. It experiences ways that disabled people experience time. And very different from what we do experience time.
She describes credit time as a time travel with a disability and illness. To change life situations as you're growing up or going to therapy or simply going to school. They're experiences that she had, for example, in physical therapy, surrounded by older people.
Grip time is grief time. She points out that she's suffering from mourning and melancholia when things have happened that changed in her own life.
In the book By Donna Luciano in “Arranging Grief: sacred time and the body of 19th Century America” She traces modernity as a temporal and effective state. She study different ways in which we need to respect or to go with the idea of crip time.
Crip Time is broken time, It breaks our bodies and minds to new rhythms’.
Group time is sick time. When someone works or gets sick, it's also changing the way that we see time. It forces us to stop the job from 9 to 5 and seek a different kind of employment.
Laura Hildenbrand wrote Seabiscuit, while gravely ill with chronic fatigue syndrome. Hildebrand was healed to write her way into cultural validity. You know, well-being. Someone who is disabled. But she would like to continue working. To make things work for her. As Hildenbrand became well known with her book Seabiscuit, Ellen Samuels wanted to also write and finish her graduate school and become a professor.
Cristina Müller’s Nine Letters, a 20-minute film
The film is a documentary testimonial of several immigrants to New York. The B roll of the film is about urban life, city life, and architecture. There are several subway shots in New York and Brooklyn. The letters are here and there. Evoking the dream state of the present imbued in the past. The letters are in the form of a voiceover. The first one is about Brazil's memories. And drinking coffee in Manhattan. Another letter is from Italy and its greeting family. Another letter is from the USA and it discusses a breakup and a heart attack. Another letter is also from Brazilian Portuguese speaker. And it explains the 2 years of separation. A 2017 letter is in a family in Porto Alegre and Paris. The last letter is on the R train in 2017. She explains that through the letters she is able to get in touch with her feelings and express them very well. Better than in person. In real life she has difficulty expressing herself.
Alicia Harris Alicia Harris. He's a professor of Native American art history. She writes about moving through time. Connecting the future and the past through objects. She discusses stones as they are in fact ancestors of Native American people. Stones are alive she proposes they are like “mother”. Including Pueblo nations,which is an Indigenous culture that uses clay as an object of power. Also, blankets have a very deep connection to Native Americans, as they're used in burials and at birth, and throughout time in rituals and several Powwows.
and celebrations. They use as kinship for family and travel life. Professor Harris. Discuss is. An epic of Anthropocene. From a point of view. Of Native American culture. She remembers her grandmother's blanket. And how it was used in a circle tippies in the in a? Artwork with fiber. This was used to illustrate. Painted red, tippies against the dirt. She also uses it as a reference to Susan kite. And her artwork is in three dimensions, sculpture, clay, and wood. And rose Simpson. With also artwork that describes objects and sculptures. A third artist, she brings up his Merlina Miles, which in fact uses digital virtual reality. And tells his stories from Dakota in Minnesota.
PHD
WHAT IT IS TO KNOW AND LEARN
WITH MARC HERBST &
WHAT IT IS TO KNOW AND LEARN
WITH MARC HERBST &
ALI SCHWARTZ
What we apprehend is less than what we feel, and even less so than what we may actually relate to. Art has always framed what we consider meaningful in the human experience, the great variety of art forms stand as a collective document to many of the ways we might know. What is understood as important is political, so too is teaching and learning.
Through experiential exercises, organized conversations, and presentations, this course will explore ways of feeling and knowing, and their related politics.
REQUIRED READINGS
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Korola Stotz presents new theories in cognitive science and how they focus on the active role of organisms in shaping their own environment as new environmental resources for cognition. This research is situated, embedded, ecological, distributed, and extended cognition to look beyond what the eye can see. Stotz argues that there is a closer parallel between developmental systems theory and developmental niche construction.
The inherited genes inside are researched and with which they form a wider whole—their internal and external ontogenetic niche. It’s a set of epigenetic, social, ecological, epistemic, and symbolic legacies inherited by the organism. The epistemic niche presents itself not just as a partially self-engineered selective niche, as the niche construction paradigm, but as a self-engineered ontogenetic niche in cognitive developmental niche construction. Stotz says there's a closer parallel with developmental systems theory and developmental niche construction. She studies external ontogenic niche understood as a set of epigenetic social, Ecologica, Epistemic and symbolic legacies. Inherited by the organism. In the interim, in the introduction. Stotz discusses from selective, selective to developmental, cognitive, niche, and construction. Which is new generation, of cognitive science. She has situated ecological, embedded, and scaffolded cognition research. As a role of environmental resources. Including the body for cognition. Human minds and bodies essentially are open.
Two episodes of deep and transformative restructuring. Clarifies particular to the downstream information engineering. In construction for human evolution and development. Seasonality between the cultural transmission of knowledge. “I'm practicing so the one hand and the physical niche construction on the other. “ Current biological knowledge. Is 70 scientifically credible conceptions of human nature? And it's behind the full biological idea of inner essence. Reliable development through developmental niche construction. To stereotype species. Developmentally fixed behaviors. Learn with all the key components genetically, it could be inherent, but the right to sing. It is in the process of extended inheritance. The Ontogenic niche has been defined as a set of ecological and social. Epigenetic, epistemic, cultural and symbolic. She also discusses in her book the Selective versus the development of Niche.
Quoting Laland, Is the niche construction paradigm, 2000, advocates the creation of new feedback of cycles in which the activity of the population introduces new selection pressures and alters the fitness of this population. The developmental niche of the construction in humans. That concept is large of material and paternal effects in mammals and other forms of inheritance mechanisms that are equally the same as humans. When she passes, she explains such a long term effect of the “predictive adaptive responses” or parse. PARS. to environmental cues with shift the developmental pathways to modify the phenotype in expectation of a particular layer environment. She also points out phenotypic and developmental plasticity. It's a trend to endothelial dysfunction, insulin resistance, that can be induced through malnutrition. And these adaptations and research are studied with PARS.
Hannah Arendt The Public and the Private Realm. Chapter II (the full selection)
Man: A social or a Political animal
Arendt writes: “No human life, not even a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.” But only action cannot be imagined without a society of others. Action is dependent on the constant presence of others. Arendt talks about the importance of speech in its connection to action. Especially the difference between action and violence as she states in this chapter.
Saint Thomas Aquinas says: “Homo est naturaliter politicus, id est, socialis.” (man is by nature political, that is, social) Arendt uses this as an example to prove that man unites for a specific purpose, as when men organize themselves to tule others or commit a crime.
Public vs. Private, the polis and the household.
The realm of the public was the space of appearance: it was where one went to be seen. The space of Freedom. The private life is a life of necessity, where the needs of biological existence are met, only in the freely joined world of equals, which is what Arendt refers to as the political, can we have true freedom. - The public space is where individuality can be seen, through the recognition of equals of one's accomplishments
The private realm is the realm of necessity. According to Arendt, there is no room for human action here, because there is no freedom here. This is a world of violence and inequality, which for Arendt, the definition means that there cannot be equality, freedom, or action.
The rise of the social realm is the blurred together political and private that characterizes our modern age. Speech is now banished to the private realm, and labor into the public. The rise of modern society with an increase in population brought with it an increase in the public organization of private matters.
Aesthetic Experience of Metabolic Processes, Desiree Förster (browse full selection)
Environment, Milieu, Atmosphere- A Clarification of Terms
Forster develops an aesthetics of metabolism that offers a new perspective on the human-environment relation. She proposes an aesthetic that is processual, relational, and not dependent on conscious thought. In art installations, and art projects that use temperature, air, and light to impact subjective experience she finds aesthetic milieus that guide our awareness of the artwork. Metabolic and atmospheric processes allow for aesthetics besides and beyond the usually dominant narrative visual sense.
Forrester. Explores the environment of an Organism. Meet the aided by its sense perception. It's internal environment and behavior. It's an Organism that is sensual. surround Organism. That the Organism essentially and habitually engages with. The terminal challenges the implicated casualty of her relationship of living beings. It's like, literally the French word for middle, And the English use of million points towards the center. The biochemical within an organism. She tries to develop an aesthetic with central biological capacities together with the object and it's appearance. She studies how aesthetic qualities appear in a metabolic process. The term atmosphere. Is Greek for atmos. Steam and Spider sphere I refers to a layer of gas surrounding the earth. Atmospheres are being researched through years by scientists. artist. and writers, but the atmospheric perception? Is the procedure can become aware of correspondences that relate to their personal life? Forced his studies the experience, perception and effect. As a physical feeling and mood or I thought. They can also, by the way, have bodily actions that register a mediate the process.
Francisco Varela, biologist and philosopher researches how to understand a new subjectivity of mutual conditioning of body and mind. According to John Dewey, 1934, the experience itself that appears as a continuous flow these new beginnings of experience, , do we? Is because the understanding of experience in the subject that encounters a constant conflict in the world. And this subject is impermanent, struggle with reality. Uses the terms of equilibrium and harmony.
Training for Exploitation, PWB. Precarious Working Brigade
(20-26)
By Silvia Federici
excerpt from “Precarious labor: A feminist viewpoint” lecture [2006]
Federici proposes studying conversations with this material with students about the availability to work and find placements of different pedagogies and discuss models of survival. Introduce cooperation in workers' co-ops. Add new best historical models. The influences are various pedagogies methods and other approaches to research. That's called training for exploitation. Federici’s lecture is organized into strategies:
Militant Research. It's about studying militants. This research is informed much of the precarious workers brigades in the production of collective analysis.
Philosophy of the Oppressed. It was developed in the 60s by Paulo Freire in Brazil. It's called “The Pedagogy of the Oppressed” is a philosophy of education it started with literary literacy training and it tried to perpetuate social injustice by directly responding to that.
Participatory Action Research. PAR. It inquires to affect change it works through cycles of reflection, analysis of action, and support. Research questions, framing interpretations, and meaningful research. Actions.
Consciousness Racing. It was an organizing tool for second-wave radical feminists. That participatory Peoples tribunal at the ICA, 2011. Is very an aggressive approach to education that allows the right radically to rethink and undo existing educational systems.
Anarchist Pedagogies. This strategy can allow us to radically rethink and undo existing education systems. Anarchist pedagogies embodied forms of knowledge rejecting the notion of objectivity.
Affected Pedagogies Drawing on Espinosa's philosophy and Brian Massumi defines the affected in rational terms. Awareness of our bodies can result in a hidden sense of power relations within systems of education.
Workers' education Comes from the working class. The Workers Education Association, founded in 1903 delivered classes for people who could not study college otherwise. “Training for Exploitation” rejects only training for work.
In investigative Research by taking on the role of investigators' sophisticated powers of detection we can find an organization I the public and private sectors. Exercising “the Freedom of Information Act” we gain an. Understanding of how power works.
Reflexive Practice. The reflexive practice examines your own assumptions and opinions and how this might influence the way we teach and research. It's an environment of research of permanent partiality. Reflexive practice refuses to base politics on any supposedly universal identity, such as women. Instead, it embraces realities that are necessarily conflicted and dynamic.
Forum Theater These techniques are also based in part on ideas of Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy. And developed in the 1970s buy Augusto Boal, during the military regime in Brazil, and it was called the theory of the oppressed. It used techniques to do workshopping on our on their experiences of desire and exploitation as interns of precariously employed artists and educators.