WS

Today I had my WS. It went ok. Originally the plan was 4 the whole class to go on a guided tour of the subwaysystem during school hrs. But that was to costly. I changed it in a homework-assignment - to ride the subway. Thereby I also have lots of forgiveness for those that haden’t had time to go on the free tours that are available to the public. The minimal demand for any and all participants where that they had taken a ride on the subway, or similar, in recent years.

I decided to proceed with the ws even if the original plan had to be altered. This because the core was still the same. I was also inspired by the powerconcept from Elinors workshop. Order your friends around and you'll see...

Maybe they wont fo anything, like in this case. No one went on the guided tour. The opertunieties to do so did indeed suck so I don't blame them. What I did not count on was that they got so "snowed-in" on the art-part of the assigment, in the discussion. What I had planed was a discussion about the non-paces that we pass every day, such as the subway. And about how often we stop and look at the artwork? Or just to watch the stream of people? Or even think about it? I had hoped that they would now had done that - participated in something that opposed the “normal” movement and “culture” in the subwaysystem, to move in to a train a.s.p. I had hoped that they not only had seen the free art but also the entropy and felt the pulse.

The bace, heart, what I wanted to point out and show was the same as my foucus during this semester: that even what we think is not art, can be art. To me, what we participate in when we ride the subway is both pulse and entropic (and a bit low/basic,).

The pulse to me is the waves of people that flow into and out of the trains, the trains themselves and the high and low in rush-hrs and non-rush-hrs. Much like the human pulse, witch also has a work phase and a rest – both when it comes to the pulse itself and rest/high activity… Our pulse is the pulse within the pulse.

The entropy that I see is much like the antwars on the TV. It looks very much the same but it never is. It is not possible to redo/copy or undo, to much has changed, you are older, your shoes a bit more torn, your hart does not beat the same, it is not the same people there, u step in different places, it is a different train witch stops a millimeter from where the last one was. Your thought pattern is not the same. People are mixed and can never be the same again. The molecules has all moved - changed. It happens once this way, then never again…

(I find it to be low cause it is treated as such. I find it to be basic cause it is. Filthy.)

After de (the) discussion, witch originally was planed to take place after the guided tour with what was left of the 3 hrs of the WS witch would not have been much. I had a second activity planed. I sent them out and about go collect 4-5 individually hand drawn world maps. They encurraged to get someone else to do it but they could also do one themselvs.

“Everybody” knows what the world looks like. But do they realy? Maybe the conception of the outlining of the continents are as formless as any… To recognize the world map is, I think, easier then actually reproducing it. But how can something so static, be so dynamic (assumption). Countries change quite often but the continents stay (much) the same. Yet, as the result showed whole contients, countries, coud get missplaced or even forgotten. Don't laugh untill you have tried it yourself. The result is now on display in A4.

But then what is knowledge? Is knowledge formless or just dynamic, theoretic or a perception, un opinion. What is true? What is real? A fealing? A idea? If the ideaworld is the closest to truth that the simple human mind can come, then wtf does the world look like?