March 4, 2009 - Week 4
Necessity is the mother of invention and the midwife is creativity.
Apparently the campus we usually meet at for Field Houston had a major event the same night as our meeting and parking was going to prove impossible. So, of course, we improvised. Since the four of us present that night have all done several fields together and know each other quite well at this point, we agreed to meet at a fellow fielder's home. It proved to be a very fruitful evening. In addition to the presentations and responses, we also discussed changing up the format of the showcase. We have some creative ways to spice it up from the traditional offering and plan on suggesting our ideas to the other fielders at the next meeting. Hopefully, they will be as excited as we are.
There was also some discussion about creative responses to some of the presentations. I for one am very excited about the potentials of this endeavor.
This week's meeting included two video presentations, a short story, and a few poems.
A few responses I had to the work that was presented:
-could taste it, could see it
-tickled by strategy
-scared by balancing
-struck by the various references to light
-felt like an analogy, but unsure
-intrigued by recipe format
-struck by the idea of words locked in a book
Some response to my work that stood out:
-felt like in a gallery/should be in a gallery
-looking at abstraction of human behavior
-angled and steadiness of background striking
-character seemed to be looking at herself, not at a camera
-character learned about self by covering herself
-not sure about what it was, but knew it was more than dress up
-how does my uniform define me?
-AVS
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So who all is involved in this spring's group? What mediums are people working in? (you say video and some writing, what else?)
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm curious about these changes to the showcase, what kinds of things were you all thinking?
People are working in various forms and some artists present in a different medium at each workshop and some present in the same medium each time, it's up to the artist.
ReplyDeleteAs I'm sure you will understand, out of respect for others' privacy, I'll have to get permission from the others to divulge who is involved and our plans for the showcase.
-AVS