Week #1 summary

This week, our curator Winnie set some perimeters for Aki's residency with us. For the next 3 months, Aki would be livestreaming her work desk on Facebook from 3PM-5PM weekly, from Monday to Wednesday. This would culminate in over 72 hours of livestreaming. While chatting and going through texts on their own, they would be writing down their notes separately on a shared Googledoc. They will then compare the contents presented by each other, and complete a review of the notes at the end of each session. As they each go through Nicolas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics, they utilised the "triplet method" to establish and break down their different understanding on the same topic, thereafter establishing a common ground that addresses and consolidates both persons' knowledge in the sphere. They regard this as a performance and demonstration of knowledge production. They communicated the issue of trust building and transparency, citing the trust they developed in sharing information with each other is only possible due to their mutual understanding and synergy. Aki has also broken down her system of knowledge digestion, calculating her speed of reading and note making at 4.5 hours a day to complete the text in 8 days. Aki has also raised the issue of being conscious of the gaze of anonymous viewers during her livestream, and is curious about what this invisible observer is seeing, thinking, perceiving and understanding. She is also curious as to how the medium of live streaming develops an audience for the artist. Leave your comments and questions down below!

Workdesk with Aki Lee: Day #3

Documentation of Aki and Winnie (curator) discussing Aki's works and current events. You can view the live recorded video on the JBS page or down below!

- Aki continued to read the book, Relational Aesthetics by Nicolas Bourriaud  (Mandarin Version)

- She began quantifying reading hours and time needed to study the text.

- Aki calculated that she needed 4.5 hr to read each day hence finishing the book by Monday

- Aki thought about the working patterns and the presentation of her working patterns 

- Development of knowledge based trust in order to have this dialogue-based investigation based on the trust that Aki and Winnie have in communicating and understanding each other (Synergy)

- Awareness of the viewer's gaze and format of participation 

- Studying the web views and engagement numbers (What do they mean?)

Complete notes between Winnie (curator) & Aki (AIR)

-------Aki

《关系美学》进度

p15/137; 2h-10%;18h left;

到下周一之前每天要花4.5h把这本书读完

Working Pattern:

Fact: live stream-给艺术家工作带来了观众

? invisible observator -看什么，在想什么，看到了什么，怎么想

What’s hidden behind the screen:

• how do i work:

• how do i arrange my schedule 2pm-3pm准备；3pm-5pm直播；30min-1h回顾；

• Relational Based, trust among the dialogue

• Trust Building

• knowledge based trust

• to have this dialogue based investigation is base on the trust that (we both) have

• in communicating and understanding each other

• the synergy (note by winnie)

• Emotions: doubt/lost/overload/insomnia…

• Political depression (share your resources: money materials, or enhance/spread/share information capital)

• mind+body

Transparency

• web-eyes

• medium

• internet-based engagement

where when what who how

• adaptions

• does the comments will interrupt

• numbers, data, disappointment, changing patterns

• the meaning of transparency

why shall we be transparent

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Internet-based engagement:

展览是一处根据各种原则而装置这些临时集体性的特殊地点：根据艺术家要求观众的参与度、作品特性、作品所提示或再现的社会性样式，一个展览就能生成一个特殊的“交流领域”。我们必须依据美学原则来评断这个“交流领域”，先分析其形式的连贯性，再分析艺术家提供给我们的“世界”以及该世界所反映人际关系影像的象征价值。

→ 评判关系美学作品的时候，需要一种抽象性的理解、才能够发现它的形式、以及这种形式与其内容的对应、再从抽象的角度找到它的象征意义。

→ 在场体验的需求：是与作品发生关系、与艺术所构成的临时集体性发生关系的必要要素。

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观众参与度：Facebook based live stream opened up more access for participation and provided windows for reflections.

作品特性: Process based, time based,

作品所提示或再现的社会性样式:Transparency (internet)

生成一个特殊的“交流领域”:

形式的连贯性：

“世界”以及该世界所反映人际关系影像的象征价值：

（线上驻场的时候，如果我是在生产一个物品，比如说雕塑，绘画，那么观众，则很难与这个物品发生关系，或者与它互动。并且它很难干涉创作的氛围-展厅环境或生产环境-，与“临时的集体性”连结弱。

但如果生产的是一个过程、是一个无形的作品，比如说关系、社群、情感、知识，那么它依旧可以影响观众，从而与其发生关系i.e. youtuber 教学视频、声音疗愈、媒体人打造社群；这个时候临时的集体性，是否就演化成了从用户画像到数据操控？）

Workdesk with Aki Lee: Day #2

Documentation of Aki and Winnie (curator) discussing Aki's works and current events. You can view the live recorded video on the JBS page or down below!

- The use of the triplet methods to establish and break down our different understanding on the same topic. 

- Knowledge cross-sphere 

- It is a performance as a demonstration of knowledge production.

As both of us has different backgrounds and different understandings of what things and concepts mean, so we are trying to establish a common ground that addresses and consolidate both of our knowledge in this sphere. 

Complete notes between Winnie (curator) & Aki (AIR)

1. Live Streaming Tryingout

2. Recapt Dialogue

3. Format Testing

4. Review & Organize(explain process\invisibilities\re-framing values)

5. Research: triplet method of Relational aesthetics\socially engaged art\social practise\social design

Aki----------------------

《关系美学》Nicolas Bourriaud

批判性唯物论

世界是由物质性与未定型的会面所构成的。【提图斯·卢克来修·卡鲁斯Titus Lucretius Carus、托马斯霍不斯Thomas Hobbes、马克思、阿尔都塞】艺术也是由形式与符号偶然且混沌的结合所组成的。今天的艺术家以创造能够发生会面的空间来开始，当前的艺术并不呈现工作结果，而是呈现工作自身或未来的工作。

-虚假性 vs 虚构 vs 科幻 triplet method

-口述历史 vs 虚假性

-“艺术的抽象价值、以内在联系的方式，取代真实的世界”-口误？寓言

Winnie----------------------

triplet method

拿3個同義詞之間的關係與質感與性質的不同做1比較

虚假性、虚构、科幻

Aki----------------------

整理：

THE FRAMEWORK OF ONLINE RESIDENCY:

Dialogue as the Content：通过对话呈现思考过程，以及情景。

knowledge crossfields：通过对话形成我们知识网络的交集 （两个人带上望远镜看远方、是否通过望远镜看到的是一样的风景呢？）

knowledge crossphere _ winnie

• notion of gaze - usually talks about bias and identity (subject position)

→ gaze 與視覺與視綫的關係

→ what are you looking at and how are you looking at it.什么造成了你的观点，你怎么看，你看到什么

• dialogue - bouncing off ideas ( ping pong reflection )

→ a context and a form of presentation

Process-oriented Research

• knowledge topography

• our research is open-end, 呈现我们的思考过程而不是draw a conclusion 更不是prompt an idea

• Research based

• investigation of [ ] unknown?

• timebased medium

• democratic engagement to participation

• story\fiction

Nature of Online Residency

• Performative act

• Transparent working mode

• web-based format→ window of comments

CONTENT\ ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION:

Identify the Invisibilities

• observations in content making, observing things that are around but indivisible.

• societal level: what are the ignored things/matter*

• suffering of the mind/the body i.e. 工作状态、情感

Value - Artistic Qualities, Perspective Change

• artistic quality & standard → reframing the value of [x] Site-specific approaches. The results and products may not always be tangible or material in their nature, but is always human-oriented.

• trying to reshape value by demonstration → 通过身先示范=身体力行+亲身示范，重塑觀念上的價值

[!!!与关系美学的重叠与区别]

• 抽象性成果

• 新词：通过制造新的词汇，撇除原有词意带来的“偏见”

• 豆腐：对于某一种物品的观察，可以有不同的解释

→区别 socially engaged art - social practice - social design

• 嗜物之情，对于物品的迷恋、和受物品的影响（affect、affection）唯物主义、唯心主义

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Triplet method a：

1. Relational aesthetics

2. Socially engaged art\social practice

3. Social design

Triplet method b：

1、虚假性

2、虚构Fiction

3、科幻SF

1、 虚假性

• Factitiousness, artificially created or developed: a largely factitious national identity.

• 抽象的、内在联系的

• ‘made by human skill or effort’

• artificial man-made

• 
  

2、 虚构 Fiction

• made up

• 不局限于真实的创作

• 从物上来说虚构一般是： novels, stories, (creative) writing, (prose) literature; lit.假象

3、科幻SF

• fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes

- Web-eyes

• the meaning of transparency

• why shall we be transparent

• internet-based engagement