change

Things to change?

Stereotyping/predjudice --- trayvon example

Recycling – mapping environmental good

Change of perception – dail activities change perception of norm – something meaningful or powerful missing – framing the daily – quotidian

Recycling on campus – public service for campus – mapping

Water fountains – encouraging non-use of water bottles

Switch general outlook – positive general experience – be happy experience

Clean up/appreciate under represented functions/people who do them

(trade – functional – water bottle )

turn it off event –

support recycling

support anti predjudice

(affect positive change)

change the environment –

What makes us angry?

rick santorum and other republicans – obamaville ad – politial brainwashing

closed planned parenthood in Odessa tx, -- no low cost health services –

big cities cut homeless shelters – LBGTQ  youth services  NYC made it hard to feed the homeless –

deforestation – destruction of natural habitats for animals

commercials on kids television – brainwash children into “want”

exploitation of small children – girls reality tv.  Sexualization

ban reality tv

gmo foods

police state – state sponsored violence

bullying  (power)

National Defense Act – detain and assisinate

Public school salaries – undervalued – 

thoughts from class -- please mull and respond

project ideas:

Plotting the best places in the city for a college student to hang out , buy, work, exercise

Scavenger hunt

Personal catharsis

Breaking social barriars

How to – (for example sew a button)

People trusting each other

Physical change

How much of an area could we clean up in  weeks?

Ubiquity of plastic

Sound based interaction

collaborative ideas

Individuals work adding up to a whole – smallish groups?
Process or object?
Working together – whole group vs two groups
One device vs. a idea or concept (easier to spread)

Instrument of Change

An instrument of change:

This final project charges you with the open-ended instruction to create an instrument of change. 

Possibly construed as “tool,” the word “instrument” carries many valences, from science to mechanics, music to financial markets.  Change, delta, means alteration, movement from one state to another, the only constant in Buddhist philosophy.  Change can be embodied, political, social, and intimate.  Instruments can be literal, suggestive, or metaphorical. This project offers many possible scales – a seedling growing is change, moving a ball an inch is a change, changing minds, changing philosophies, the butterfly stamped and changed the world – or using cyber technology, global change could perhaps be created.  

We will workshop this project in similar ways as we did the mapping project.  You will not be limited in materials, nor will they be provided, but you will be required to work in class.  Thus, think portable, flexible, modular or small scale.

Step One: due Thursday March 29

Instrument – bring in three instruments (or more) – and we’ll discuss how they work and what kind of change they might create.

Step Two:  due Tuesday April 3

Change – bring in three ideas of changes you’d like to create and a sketch (could be drawn or built) of an instrument you imagine that would create that change

Step Three: Thursday April 5

Refine your change and your instrument in class – pick one of the three and make a material list and budget for your project

From here on we will work in class and invite in guests to talk about our projects.

John Cage references

John Cage performing 4'33"
John Cage -- Mushroom Haiku

John Cage Trust

references for historic scores

fluxusworkbook.pdf
Sol Lewitt drawings

general fluxus information

University of Michigan Ten Essential Questions

scoring

4'33" John Cage 1952

Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing #146A Mass MoCA, Nov. 2010 - Nov. 2035

Please read the two Halprin articles on e-reserve.  One is an interview and the other a discussion of Halprin’s RSVP cycle in application.  Please also look at examples of scores.

Tuesday

9-10: introduction of scores

10-11 score workshop

11-12 group score breakout

Thursday

9-10 discuss Halprin articles and other historic scores

10-10:30 present personal scores – enactments of historic scores you picked from references

10:30-12 present group scoring projects

Group scoring project:

In a group of at least three, design/write a score and then present it or have other’s in your class present it.  Each score must be replicable, or be noted as variations.  Please document your score as in the examples provided.  Please note that scores often have a dedication or a specific experience desired.  How that experience is derived is usually not a one to one correspondence.

References: John Baldessari, Sol LeWitt, John Cage, Alison Knowles, Lawrence Halprin and Anna Halprin, George Maciunas, Nam Jun Paik, Yoko Ono