Steinhaus Rewritten
Workshop
What can a house of stone tell us? Which stories and rumors does it disclose? How can these be captured, passed on, and developed further?
The house has a personality that is perceived differently by each individual. Whether it evokes fascination, disturbance or indifference, reactions and feelings are present, influencing our perception. The involvement with these feelings apart from any institution causes irritation. Similar to the inkblots of the Rorschach test part memory, part fiction. The Rorschach test was a psychological experiment widely used in the 1960s, with which the subjects’ reactions to inkblots where analyzed, in order to get a grasp on their thinking processes. The project “Steinhaus Rewritten” makes use of the process and principle of this psychological experiment. The starting point will be to undergo such a test in order to find methods of notation to capture the emotional response to the environment within and surrounding the Steinhaus. Participants from various fields will be included in order to ensure a wide range of test results (“inkblot exercises”). After the notation process, in other words the scoring, individual perceptions and collected stories will be exchanged in order to evaluate them collectively. “Scores are ways of symbolizing reality – of communicating experience through devices other than the experience itself. The score of a musical event is not itself music any more than the plan and the elevation of a building are the building. But the one predates the other and in our complex society is required by the other. First comes the score and then the performance. But they are inextricably interrelated.” (Lawrence Halprin – RSVP Cycles) This procedure provides a basis for a common path and narrative that leaves room for individual work as well as collaborations. We become like archeologists and poets at once, seeking for evidences of long gone arguments and stories, shaping and constructing them into the present as artists. The collective SeMF undertakes the task to guide a dialogue between the Steinhaus, its environment and its visitors. The stories and sensitivities are captured onto various material. In that way the impact on the social surrounding is uncovered and illustrated. The resulting work will be brought together in an exhibition on site as a physical representation of the psychological response – writing architecture like fiction and telling OUR story.
Workshop Schedule
Tuesday, July 8
Theoretical introduction
Sensing the house
Connecting to the community and collecting stories on site
Evening exchange and evaluation of collected material
Wednesday, July 9
Series of inkblot exercises (defining scoring methods)
Evening exchange and evaluation of collected material
Thursday, July 10
Development of notation process
Definition of projects and collaborations
Evening exchange
Friday, July 11
Development of projects
Defining exhibition concept
Evening exchange
Saturday, July 12
Installation on site
Exhibition opening
Sunday, July 13
Closing brunch
Clean up
The house has a personality that is perceived differently by each individual. Whether it evokes fascination, disturbance or indifference, reactions and feelings are present, influencing our perception. The involvement with these feelings apart from any institution causes irritation. Similar to the inkblots of the Rorschach test part memory, part fiction. The Rorschach test was a psychological experiment widely used in the 1960s, with which the subjects’ reactions to inkblots where analyzed, in order to get a grasp on their thinking processes. The project “Steinhaus Rewritten” makes use of the process and principle of this psychological experiment. The starting point will be to undergo such a test in order to find methods of notation to capture the emotional response to the environment within and surrounding the Steinhaus. Participants from various fields will be included in order to ensure a wide range of test results (“inkblot exercises”). After the notation process, in other words the scoring, individual perceptions and collected stories will be exchanged in order to evaluate them collectively. “Scores are ways of symbolizing reality – of communicating experience through devices other than the experience itself. The score of a musical event is not itself music any more than the plan and the elevation of a building are the building. But the one predates the other and in our complex society is required by the other. First comes the score and then the performance. But they are inextricably interrelated.” (Lawrence Halprin – RSVP Cycles) This procedure provides a basis for a common path and narrative that leaves room for individual work as well as collaborations. We become like archeologists and poets at once, seeking for evidences of long gone arguments and stories, shaping and constructing them into the present as artists. The collective SeMF undertakes the task to guide a dialogue between the Steinhaus, its environment and its visitors. The stories and sensitivities are captured onto various material. In that way the impact on the social surrounding is uncovered and illustrated. The resulting work will be brought together in an exhibition on site as a physical representation of the psychological response – writing architecture like fiction and telling OUR story.
Workshop Schedule
Tuesday, July 8
Theoretical introduction
Sensing the house
Connecting to the community and collecting stories on site
Evening exchange and evaluation of collected material
Wednesday, July 9
Series of inkblot exercises (defining scoring methods)
Evening exchange and evaluation of collected material
Thursday, July 10
Development of notation process
Definition of projects and collaborations
Evening exchange
Friday, July 11
Development of projects
Defining exhibition concept
Evening exchange
Saturday, July 12
Installation on site
Exhibition opening
Sunday, July 13
Closing brunch
Clean up
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