lolli pop art

so i imagined this thing called lolli pop art.

here's the rules for making your own:

eat lollipop.

unwrap the paper stick of the lollipop.

pick a random sentence from your journal and write it on the stick.

name the piece of art after the flavour of the lollipop.

Artificial Mystery Flavour

Artificial Cherry I

Artificial Cherry II

imovie update for CAP:

managed to get over the video camera issues

and have been experimenting with imovie hd.

the idea of skin and touch and the cardboard are coming together

(against all odds)

i want to make something awkward and uncomfortable

and i think it works

the sad thing is that i can't figure out how to layer images on imovie, maybe it is not possible with the version that i have... and cross fades are limited to 12 seconds of length. but i still think i will have something to make people feel uncomfortable to show on thursday.

it feels like it has to be as awkward as i feel around the subject, and around being in this country, and around languaging these issues and doing it in public. so, on one hand i want it to be smooth enough to work, but not smooth enough to swallow - that there is something wrong, something that you as a viewer will want to change.

the idea of clay has changed into dough in my mind, but i haven't figured out how to project the dough on the skin - and it has to be done on the same day because i want my audience to eat the bread that is the touch that is on the skin on the video. and bread has to be eaten fresh. eat me, a sharing of bread and of my body with you.

i also played with garageband to make a satisfyingly off sounding soundtrack.

it is all a draft but it feels good to be doing something, trying and erring and learning.

imovie trial

very
first
imovie
CAP 24.09.09

my emotional shoulder
and some teeth with globalization

(also starring: simone, janice)

in motion

thinking about sensations on skin

about homelessness

about sleeping on a mattress of cardboard

about cold and numbness and the

simultaneous invisibility and visibility

having no privacy but no voice

thinking about how we 'grant' each other humanity

who do we see as our fellow citizens

and how that would change if there was a relationship

through a narrative, a history, a shared branch in the family tree

of recognition

not me recognizing you, but us recognizing each other

of possible connections

touch and movement with traditional medium

patterns

mostly, at this point, there are questions.

i am beginning to question my original idea for the project.

right now it seems more fruitful to look at the possibilities of the medium, to try out things and see what i can do - i feel like my ideas are getting too much in the way.

imagining the skin as paper

what if the skin was clay

and you could run your finger in it

so that your touch left a scar?

what if every thought touched the skin

and marked it,

this white paper skin,

snow white -

how does your gaze define me

every second

identity

it is written on my skin

skin

skin

paper body.

what is projected on the skin

touches the skin,

changes the skin.

changes how it is

to be

inside that skin,

to be my skin.

stop motion

tonight we played with photobooth.

simone taught us how to make a stop motion clip in 2 minutes.

i had a hard time understanding the concept of movement that is not dance, but eventually managed to do something anyway. looking at this, it is embarrassing how revealing it is. it is so noticeable here, how uncomfortable i am in front of the camera when i am not dancing, and how that changes when i dance.

touch

a rough sketch

i wish to create a piece where the audience's touch on a remote device makes a mark that is projected on the dancer's body, and that mark grows and takes shape according to the quality of the touch.

the dancer moves according to the choreography created by these touches.

the touch could also create sound - or it could be an environment where the sound is created through the dancer's movements in space.

tervetuloa.

welcome.

soluja is finnish for cells.

this is the place where i try to make sense

of how the 73 trillion cells in my body

make contact with this information technology

keyboard under fingers

light hitting eyes

stem cells

nervous

system

yes

i am.