reviewing the photos from Berlin - here are a couple of architectural
textiles for the collection covered buildings. meanwhile if you like your
revenge sweet and twisted you have to watch Wild Tales http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3011894/
- 6 stories of people sort of getting it. George Clooney brings it home in Money Monster http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2241351/
as the film relentlessly moves
towards its depressingly obvious conclusion.
I've been doing some reading at the moment which is
informing my teaching for next year - both The
Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat and other clinical tales - Oliver Sacks http://selfdefinition.org/science/25-greatest-science-books-of-all time/18.%20Oliver%20Sacks%20-%20The%20Man%20Who%20Mistook%20His%20Wife%20for%20a%20Hat%20and%20Other%20Clinical%20Tales%20(1985).pdf
and Design as Art - Bruno Munari http://www.shawncalvert.com/images/uploads/munari_whatisdesign.pdf
are informing the thinking behind a new set of workshops that I hope to run on
the textiles design course at NUA. The idea of thinking about the object
without context, lateral thinking around brain mapping, the idea of 'open
sculptures' in relation to audience, involvement, iterations of organic
'growth' patterns and deconstructing an objects memory. This along with Joseph
Beuys thoughts on art making....thinking
forms - how we mould our thoughts. spoken
forms - how we shape our thoughts into words. social sculpture - how we mould and share the world in which we live:
sculpture as a social sculpture. Linking this thinking to an excellent video in
the exhibition Das Kapital - it shows a great happening - We Have No Art, a 1967
documentary about Sister Corita Kent, directed by Baylis Glascock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HtiQFQTFPM
