Record: idea development

Who Are The Artists? Thinking Of Identities (Personal Struggle on refusal to regard me as an artist) (Psychological Change in facing own identities and through constructing new identities)

Attempt To Override Embedded Values In Jewellery (Success? Should We override or should we use it as a tool?)

Stage 1: Idea of Brokering Identity (Mid-term Exhibition)

Soul Bank: An Idea to uphold Equality of Identities with Jewellery

Stage 2: Becoming a Story Collector (Amendments)

Conversation As A Way Of Research (Describe and show the outcomes of my attempt to collect story; Psychological aspect to try)

Story Telling as Art Practice (Soul Bank and my literary practice are all storytelling, my previous works as well) (Visual Presentation in Story Telling, e.g. The colour coding system)

Stage 3: Exploring Technology

Art and Technology: Online transaction, 3D printing, Social Media, and their relation to Storytelling

Recording Daily Activities As A Way Of Research (Social Media story and the most used words, emotions, feelings)

Stage 4: Reflection & Production

Recurring Social Media Contents (during book making process): A process in Facing Traumas (from social events) & Concretising Memory
Social Psychology and Emotion Recognition: Parkinson, Brian. (2008). Emotions in direct and remote social interaction: Getting through the spaces between us. Computers in Human Behavior. 24. 1510-1529. 10.1016/j.chb.2007.05.006.

Related: Freud and Literature

So we have been living in an age that we are so influenced by Freud’s modern physcology and psychoanalysis without actually knowing it, creative works and productions are deeply affected by his studies. Here, The Victorian Web suggested Freudianism’s connection with literature by bringing up a method of investigation: (1) treat literary works from the vantage point of psycho-biography; (2) search for “obsessive” repetitions within the work; (3) look into Freud’s comparisons between dreams and poetic language & structure. The following questions had been asked by the author:

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A more detailed interpretation of Freud’s influences on social and cultural studies could be found on Britannica.

What do we learn from Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez’s Slow Institutions

New worlds could be created in response to traumas of the past and present.

In the lectures on two symposiums on the idea of resilience (also her curated show Resilience: U3—Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia in 2013), Nataša Petrešin gave an emotional pursuation to art institutions in retreating from progress-driven modes of living and thinking to what I interpreted as ‘ecologies’ that establish connections between all memebers of institutions whom being seen as living and breathing organisms within each habitat.

Related: The Book of Life (website)

Recently I have come across a very interesting website. Sponsored by The School of Life,  The Book of Life discuss the function of traditional publication in modern times in their introduction:

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In the chapter CAPITALISM > GOOD CAPITALISM, one article discussed “how the modernworld makes us mentally ill“, in which the writer listed meritocracy, media and individualism as three main elements that generate “the forces of psychological distress in our world”. The analysis are, not so surprisingly, an interpretation from another angle of my in-progress project.

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