Finding Resilience in Challenging Times,
The new culture, underpinned by the values of freedom, civility, tolerance, and resilience, would support artistic and creative freedom; strive to create a productive, healthy, and inclusive society; and foster responsible citizenry. Supporting audiences of the future would be the absolute priority.
published on American Alliance of Museums in March 2019
Category: Research
Figuring the Impact of Social Media Contents: The ‘Response Calibration Index’
Original Response/Calibration Factor
The ‘Response Calibration Index’ (RCI) reflects the level of affectiveness imposed by social media contents to its users. In each of the day recorded, the higher the index, the more fluctuate the emotion undergone by the social media users.
*This calculation method is developed during the research for my studio project.
Related: (Re)Search/Destroy? Or, Mistaking Poetry for Viruses
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:
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: Artist’s Publication
The Serving Library http://www.servinglibrary.org
Paul Chan, Badlands Unlimited https://badlandsunlimited.com
Triple Canopy https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com
Source: RI Curatorial Network Talk #6: Ruth Blacksell
7 February 2018 6pm
South Street Arts Centre, Reading
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:
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.
Hare out of (its) cave 