Onepager Step 1: the team from Greece | on things we have in common
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Thank you for a very clear and informative overview! It is indeed true that the very situation we are in drives us (our teams) to research and explore ‘encounters’ individually, or at least scattered. What all these explorations point to, I find, is also how we do find ways of encountering each other, how that is a very profound drive. And perhaps, as your inquiries may reveal, is this time actually a very fruitful, unique research opportunity, even when we experience it as disadvantaged in the first place?
I loved the general focus on the idea of the Encounter. I was struck how some projects — well, all of them — consider the Encounter in a period where something is lacking. Indeed, I realize, LACK is such a pervasive dimension of a pandemic! What I learned from the individual projects is that when one or more elements of encounters-as-usual are no longer available, we are forced to reconsider what an encounter is, or was, or could be (again). I think these projects resonate well with what the Amsterdam team has been trying to do in the three film projects, where we sought to understand filmed encounters by introducing a LACK in the clips — taking out the images, or the sound, or both, then to become more aware of layers normally not easily perceived.
feedback to Greece team
The team from Greece makes a map in their text: Athens, Thessaloniki, Mytilene. Protomagias Square. The virtual landscape of the online dialogues and ‘remote studies’ (Remote from what? Maybe we could explore them as ‘close studies’, or ‘confined studies’ where we are all in the space of our own small flats and residences? Or see the online community as a landscape established in itself, a map?)
we, too, draw maps – the river, the valley, the forest, the ocean . .
building a landscape !
not just about exploring the virtual ‘landscape’ of us making up local, confined nodes of a Zoom meeting (that is more of a practicality, accepting things as they are; “OK, now this is how we are to meet if we want to collaborate, this is the space for that”). What we find more interesting is what we do or create between ourselves; We have talked about experiencing our repeated interaction in the ‘rehearsals’ as creating a meadow, a field. We meet in that landscape of what we are doing together: listening, making collective reading, walking, making physical moves & shared deep listening sessions. Planting seeds that grow in various ways and directions. That becomes the ‘field work’.
building a landscape !
how the pandemic is (or creates?) a longing, a need, and how people find ways to interact, need ways to meet and establish spaces for encounters.
“At first, we had to encounter each other”
At first, we had to encounter each other !
we met in Järpen!
we met on zoom!
that’s where we met!
yes.
true.
“we are seven different people”
we are . .
how many are we ?
a small river !
Gefsi: What constitutes digital communication if you break it apart into different sections and how do feeling and understanding manifest within this context?
raketa rehearsal is trying out what happens if . .
ioanna: collects material, ranging from photographs to texts, to interviews, to sketches, trying to unveil the challenges that the communication between
the collection / the archive / the orbits !
attempt to understand, grasp, and examine a set of changes that are currently unfolding, because of and throughout the course of the pandemic.
These changes relate to the concept of the encounter and its linguistic & meaning-full connotations. In its full-blown glory an “encounter” is unexpected and unmeasurable: it calls for action and reaction. An “encounter” is also, automatically, a common experience. It is never one, it is fluid and can be experienced from different standpoints.
an encounter is unexpected and unmeasurable !
/ Raketa & Agder team
It is very interesting to think that an encounter has to have the prerequisite of involving more than one person. When our team held tryouts I do think it changed the way we looked for awe. On some walks I thought about how what captured my eye would translate onto film or how I could describe. While the initial experience was mine alone the analyzation of it happened in conversation with other people.
Arizona Team
interesting. For some reason it reminded me of one of my favourite quotes of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, in his ‘book of disquiet’
… there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally. The end result is what matters. What one felt was what one experienced … The person standing apart in the corner of the room dances with all the dancers. He sees everything and because he sees, he experiences everything. When it comes down to it, it is just another feeling, and seeing or even remembering someone’s body is just as good as any actual contact. Thus when I see others dance, I dance too. I agree with the English poet who, describing how he lay far off in the grass watching three reapers at work, wrote: ‘A fourth man is there reaping too, and that fourth man is me’ (Pessoa 2002: 74).