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Stacking and Volumes Continued : MATERIAL JOURNEYS

 
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Threads we could pick up: 

• Poetic Quantification / Physicality
  • Materialising volumes - building stacks
  • Cutting across the current categorisation of the museum catalogue - creating other volumes based on existing groups such as material
  • Translating this into something more experiential - for example relative to body (As was tried with audio guide)
    • Making something non-physical seem physical

• Tectonics of "stuff"
  • Lifespans visualised as volume (Tying together with previous thread) ----> Material and time 
  • Materials movement around the world
    • Natural (e.g. rock or animal) 
    • Life (animals plants)
    • Societal use (i.e. 'performance' )
    • Cultural retirement (the museum)
  • Creating a score - dance/movement of matter
    • Bones around the world as living material - dead, carved, collected, transported, swarmed together at the museum (and still not "together-together")
  • Packaging - Volume during travel vs. arrival
    • What is needed for one object to arrive at the museum?

Possible o utputs / Mediums:

• Audioguide ----> Audio something
• Gift Shop ----> Material density, telling a story of material journeys through stacks and volumes. 
• Dance scores / score of movement / notation meets burolandschaft architectural plans ---> To be reproduced by what or whom?
• Score turns into tour / track /  "Parcour of stone" "Parcour of bones" ---> Back to an audio-guide perhaps. Maybe an imaginary tour?
• Maps of where oneself is "in the stack" of materials ----> Bringing it back to being relative to your own body-size, as in: You are of a certain material and age, and you have travelled through space and time, how does that compare to the objects that surround you at this very moment in the museum, including floors above and below you?
  • Creating something that points out that by going into the museum you walk into a kind of "stack of materials", that compared to how spread out they used to be are now highly contensed. ---> Making the building a transparant container.
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Links / References / Research:

• Dance notation Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_notation
  • Examples:
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_notation#/media/File:Zorn_Cachucha.jpg
    • https://www.britannica.com/topic/Schrifttanz
    • https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigaudon#/media/File:Feuillet_notation.jpg
    • https://i.pinimg.com/736x/88/0e/e7/880ee71266bf2a27fa2f36ef49da09fd--la-dance-th-century.jpg
    • https://i.pinimg.com/236x/cb/ab/bc/cbabbcb738899ea4108e07ef5dc84a06.jpg
• Burolandschaft as notations of movement and activity http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-efexTLuPFjU/UY584G2Y_UI/AAAAAAAAHYo/beRB3rk02K8/s1600/Osram-Munich_1965_plan.jpg
• The crowdedness of a gift shop / material density ---> Stacks and volumes in the gift shop https://www.google.be/search?client=firefox-b-ab&dcr=0&biw=1280&bih=649&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=J3sFWpDkBqnfgAbthqaADA&q=gift+shop&oq=gift+shop&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0j0i30k1l9.19358.19358.0.19605.1.1.0.0.0.0.134.134.0j1.1.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.1.133....0.dm_CN6bToLg
• Mary Douglas' theory definition of dirt as "dirt is matter out of place" is a current obsession of mine that seems like a reference to include as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purity_and_Danger

Comments

• Saskia from music information - extensive information
• The difficulty of movement
• Origin and  - provinence and relation is the way that collection is created. 
• Archeological material - classification - Piles - groups. 

Practical:

• Meetings:
  • 03.11.17 - Internal stacking chatting meeting #1
  • 10'ish.11.17 - Internal stacking chatting meeting #2
  • 30.11.17 - Informal group meeting 14-17h  in The Museum Jubelpark/Cinquantenaire
  • Mid February - present the prototypes  - Phil finishes his PHD

• Budget:
  • Total €800
    • Costs
      • Phil travels to Brussels

Some old notes to keep track of: 

•  stacking as a whole and generating a "physical" artefact of the digital database     

--- poster or book through generating A4 documents

Categories of mass and material

•         Heads - 585          (visualised)       
•         Coins - 279       
•         Bone - 1138
•         Objects made of hair - 705            
•         Boxes - 444       
•         Fruits - 639       
•         Animal equipment - 1090          (visualised)       
•         Unidentified raw material - 1291  

Shapes and size discussion:

• Threedimensional box     †
• spheres - bubbles - fleeting     
• Weight     
• Size     
• Creepy size 

Reality:

• Women - 173 ?       
• Tools -1126        
  • vs hands - 173 :-/         
• Islamic art aquired through time       
• Embroidery - 978       
• Phil's lifetime - 2083
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Collections:       

• Carriages collection - 2735         
• Preciosa and silverware - 3584         
• Precision instruments - 277