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Coaching 25 05 2020
Research Themes
Ideas in motion
Orphans
There’s still a world wide problem when it comes to orphans. To me it raises questions about not feeling connected, being in a 'foundling hatch’, a ‘waiting room’, in between.
I found photos of little objects that children carried with them when placed in foundling hatches in the earlier days. These objects were cut in half, so there was still evidence left with the mother when she wanted her child back. These objects somehow became symbols of identity.
When I look at our times I see many refugee children who roam around without parents and which are not given a home in many European countries.
This is a huge problem.
I was wondering if I could give those children ‘a name’, give this inhumanity visibility.
CF
Orphans project
https://cfileonline.org/exhibition-monika-patuszynska-orphans-bastards/
Earth
The second idea is about questioning the material with which I work.
I like gardening, have a vegetable garden. There are many farmers around here, they work quite traditional.
The huge climate problem raises questions about what we did and still are doing with our earth.
What do we take from the earth for our benefit and what do we put in it?
I take clay from the earth, add all kinds of raw material, fire it.
What is the connection/difference between my act as a ceramic artist and the big pollution that is going on?
CF
Atelier NL
Solastalgia
A term that I found when I was searching for non places.
It means homesick for a lost world.
The big change of our landscape has its influence on people and is a huge problem for the surviving of the earth.
It is obvious, but still many people don’t want to see it, power and money are the big players in this field.
This topic raises questions with me about how to make it visible, give this recognition.
It also makes me think about how alienated we are from nature.
Links between themes
All three projects are linked by notions of disconnect & loss!
Coaching 24/06/2020
Notes 24 06 2020
Lost places is the focus of Anthropocene work the MJC has seen recently.
Question – how is your voice different – what is your unique take on this situation?
Saskia Olbert Wolders – video (the task of cleaning chemical waste), Scenes from the Anthropocene, Bonnifantum Museum, Maastricht
Binary – beautiful – dangerous / scary appeals to MJC;
What does lost childhood mean? Need to share – lots of people feel these feelings…
"Question: Who would you like to be going forwards?"
Lost place (priority as a research focus) – to visit brown coal mines…
More than 20 villages gone - brown coal site 40km2 – build a new village with new names that incorporate old name eg ‘New Reimerstock’…
MJC to visit coal fields - next weekend… & orphanage library within 2 weeks…
MJC to develop a multimedia & polyphonic series of photos & drawings of mines, people and objects… encouraged to draw in charcoal – cf Kathe Kollowitz & William Kentridge. MJC recalls miners with black faces coming from mines. Locals do hard work – engineers from the north got good jobs…
MJC from Heerlen - she notes that the town has lost its heart due to closure of mine & unemployment… old building renovated to create a characterless city with boulevard… seeking new identity (first shopping destination, then crisis, now green (alternative place to Maastricht) village… MJC has a beautiful, old home there.
Possible research question: How do we manage the grief of loss and what identity do we develop subsequently, or how do we advance after a tragedy?
Memory triggers a sense of loss… also seeing brown coal mines evokes loss due to environmental tragedy…
Please excuse any spelling errors! 8-)
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