I re-read the early chapters from a couple of my favourite books on mindfulness and they have plenty of useful ideas which can help shape the longitudinal sequence I’m planning. This post summarises each book’s key points and quotes.
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Research: Inflatable architecture
I mentioned my plans for ThoughtCounter during a coffee with my friend Luciano, an architect at Zaha Hadid. I showed him the sphere mood-board and he pointed me toward inflatable architecture as a field. Here’s what I found.
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Mood-board: The sphere
The shape I keep returning to is the sphere (or orb). One of the ThoughtCounter participants instinctively drew a simple circle on their questionnaire when asked to represent a thought, completely unprompted.
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5 artists who work with portable, temporary structures
Research into portable pop up structures for ThoughtCounter.
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Thinking differently about the work
In our group session last week, Jonathan pushed us to think in unfamiliar ways, such as following web-links we’d never normally click, considering how other artists might approach our work, and looking at Brian Eno’s ‘Oblique Strategies’ for inspiration.
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Designing the show
I’ve been working through how to present ThoughtCounter at the interim show. The challenge is how to document the research while making space for visitors to participate themselves.
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Interim show game plan
I’ve spent the last few days looking at artists who use a line of questioning and have been banging my head against a wall trying to decide which direction to go in for the visual direction. Then I had a breakthrough – the art can be a presentation of the research itself.
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Interim show in 3.5 weeks
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The Five Aggregates
During my recent meditation retreat in India, I attended a brilliant workshop on the Five Aggregates, a foundational Buddhist framework for investigating the nature of self and experience.
The framework resonated immediately with my art practice and research, particularly in how it maps the area I’m exploring through ThoughtCounter.
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