Week 07, Thursday

We summarised individual readings in class by writing a short summary of the reading and pointing out 5 main questions we had for the readings. Adrian went through the summary of each readings and explains the importance and outcome of the readings.

In my previous post, I mentioned that I couldn’t come up with an summary of the reading but when we were given time to complete the form. I did came up with something- from my understanding. Ingold argues that life is beyond scientific constrains. His aim is to recover that original openness to the world in which the people whom we call animist find the meaning of life. He brought us back to understanding the condition of being and how to identify life by understanding animic ontology. ( Rethinking the animate, Reanimating thought)

Feedback from our project. ( Group 01)

We are controlling too much and there were hesitations in our shots. We could have explored further by allowing different agencies and sets of rules expand our image track and sound scape instead of controlling and limiting them. We are not narrowing the idea enough.

I really like one of the feedback from another student- How we could have explored projecting our archival footages on something else instead of a plain wall. We could have projected and shot it on a circular surface and instead of tracking in and out we could have rotate the camera 360. Our ideas are still very rigid, like what Adrian mentioned, we need to be a 3 years old again. The way a 3 year old explores an object, the way a 3 year old ask questions about the object.