Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Messages from Water

Hi, here again, i was reading Mariza and Ramon's blog and it reminded me of an article about water.
as we know now, that we are made up with small articles that vibrates, so the water, sounds and colors are all particles with waves, since our bodies are covered with water 70 o 80% water, we are affected by all these waves....

Here's scientific experiments on water:

Miraculous
How water structure reflects our consciousness

Finally ...

Thank you for all of my classmates and all of the participants of the projects and also who watch it with envy as well.

Thank you for the professor for opening my mind and mental plan to the different level.

Thank you to MCKS and pranic healers.

Thank you Thank you.
Namaste to you all.

Processo y Analysis

Inputs:
Games of hula hoops at school.
Hula hoops – children’s’ game move your hips around with hula
School-- a space of Not Play, “mental faculty” rather than the body level.

Obstacles:
1.Weather -- May in PR is pretty hot, especially this year. And court yard of the school is cement. The reflection of the light makes the people blind.

2.Period of time -- this was during the final exams of the school and it was lunch time, they rather eat and relax, than play in the sun.

3.Familiarity of game – surprisingly, some people didn’t know how to play game, or never played before. Or they haven’t played for a while, had resistance, since it was a public place, so anyone can watch them playing badly.

4.Authority – people from office or professors didn’t want to participate. Some told me that it is their shape is not for the hoops.

5.Limitation of use of equipment of school property – camera, in the beginning, I could rent it only for one day, because the class was ending for the day time students, but I talked with Miguel who was in charge of equipment, that we, night students still have classes, so he gave me the permission to use video camera until end of the semester.

6.Limitation of my knowledge on recording and editing video – I learned very quickly but only basic stuffs to manage cut my first film!




And Energy moved on..

I changed time of the day, and different areas, and asked for help of my friend, to make people more involved.

Changing of the space more familiar with help was indeed great impact. Boosting of my confidence and we got to enjoy all together.

Night time, the temperature dropped has also great effect on people.
Some of them were tired, but through the move, fun, they were getting more energy .

Since this game is reminder of the childhood, made some of them easily transform to the childlike state of mind.
Most of them had fun memory with this game, rather than traumatic bad experience, this put them in a good mood as well.

Laughing, and involvement of playing it, transmuting, not only make you smart, they know that it will make them look good, or in the process.


Outputs: while changing the movement of the energy of the performance first outcome became an input for the second try.


Interaction:
Interaction between different public places doing the same performance makes totally different project.

Each time, there is different out comings, and from the previous project outcome, I approaches it differently as well.

Interactions between the people who are playing at makes, the space different, could be individual, group.

The chemical of the group changes when the actions were interrupting their previous settings of space. Therefore it generates different energy flow as outcome.

Contemplation:

While the action is oriented from the body movements, it invokes them to move their body not so familiar way, not everyday life movements, it also forces them, especially for adults, to break their mind set even to start to move the body.

Even though it is their childhood game and everyone knows, so it is easier to get involved than any other child like action in anytime, one needs break their mental frame first. Game helps to transform that easier. Some might not need to think first at all.

Through the practice, of body and mind and thoughts, in and out of different mental frames, we will all get more FLEXIBLE!!!! Not so rigid this can easily break.

All these yoga parishioners are practicing it for them to be more conductive to the energy, so that energy, especially the divine energy, can flow through their body, which is the instrument of the soul, and ultimately we can all connect to the soul, ourselves.

Recent science of Physics claims that all of the matters, in sub atomic level, are constantly oscillating, like a coil or strings.
Which, the spirals, and circles have been appearing on my drawings dominantly.
When one do, in my case, draws with unconscious status of mind, it takes to the place my mind cannot comprehend but to the truth.


Feedbacks:
Fun
Fun
Fun!!!!
Some of the students in art school asked me what is motivation of this action:
I explain them simple, very essential answer, that this exercise will make them more creative, also I am invading the spaces that are not so fun, with games to break the ice.

They wanted try at home as well of course!
So far, no injuries, no complaints I received.



Disciplines involved:

Yoga, Exercise, Toys and Games, Self-healing, Psychology and Art.


Video as a record of performance:
More or less I recorded entire happenings for less than 2 hours, and I cut them to 2 and half minute video in movie format to play in Quick time player.

Happenings that happened

First happenings, were held in School of arte plastica, different parts of the old school through out the daytime to the evening within the students. -- May 21, 2007. Monday. ( Recorded in video-camera )

It was around noon hot summer, in the middle of May in Puerto Rico.
Escuela de Arte Plastica, which currently I am studying at night there, has 2 different building, in Old San Juan.
First attempt was in new building next to Ballaja, museum of art, entered the court yard, it was lunch time and the week of the finals for the daytime students.

In the middle of lunching and walking around, I put the hoops in the middle of the yard, which was really bright and hot, I was sweating, after for a while, I moved them to shade, to see anyone is interested, some were asking, but didn’t play with them. I finally suggested some of the staffs of the offices, to play after lunch.
Not so successful.

I moved on to the old building which located in front of the El Morrow, old Spanish fort. There, I asked my friend to help me to get people involved, and started from parking lot, before even entering the school, guards, and students.

Without worry about the sweating or getting hot, they were so involved in playing with them.

Moved on to the inside building which it was cooler, at the entrance of the stairs, many participated, even the movement required the individual spaces not to collide each other, but they would invent all kinds of movement to connect each other as well.

One round, parking lot to inside, inside and outside, now, the pedestrians were interested, so again I made to parking lot, through the side door of the sculpture department, which made me a big loop, hoop.

That evening, when the weather was more cooperative, came with hoops on my neck again, and placed next to the cafeteria, so that students and teachers at night classes can see them.

Since they know me, they immediately started to play with them, and having fun, and some made nice show for me.

Most interesting part was they were creating their own movements using different parts of the body. Here the body becomes part of the game instrument.
Cooperating, coordinating, becomes one.

Second, at the work place in an office -- may 22, 2007. Tuesday
Where I work, for the parents who have children could bring the children at the office during the vacation time of school in the afternoon.
There were several children of all ages in the afternoon, so I brought the hoops at the office for them to play, and hoped some of the colleagues will join them too.
But they didn’t even after encouragements..

Some of the children were too young to play, so she invented some other way to enjoy them. Genius.



Third, in the class room of Trans-disciplinary.
With students and a professor. -- may 23, 2007. Wednesday

After first performance, I got so familiar with my hoops around my body to carry, like big necklaces…
I brought them to the class, my classmates were the most creative performers.

They did it with love and desire to go to that “T” of ours.
Ms. Santana is the Only Professor participated!!!!
I think we laughed so much and they were overcoming the difficulties and involved more and more, kept going.
I am going to ask them how they felt, for my feedback.



Fourth, outside park area at night in old san Juan
Mostly children -- may 23, 2007. Wednesday


Later on that night, end of the class, we moved to another building, and came back afterwards, in the outside of Ballaja’s building, there is fountain and small park area with benches, and all of sudden those children got my attention, and they asked me why I carry the hoops around, and if they can buy them. I told them they can play with them not for sale. We were all so excited, both parties, them and me.

Sorry, my classmates, but they were the experts you can ask for!!!
For an hour, without getting tired, every girl on the park got to play and play.
With the sound of fountain, children’s screams with joy, and beautiful dim lights, I was in the other world. (I like children generally)

They said thank you and told it was really fun very politely.
And we bid good night.

Jung and Freud

Today Jung and Freud rule two very different empires of the mind, so to speak, which the respective proponents of these empires like to stress, downplaying the influence these men had on each other in the formative years of their lives. But in 1906 psychoanalysis as an institution was still in its early developmental stages. Jung, who had become interested in psychiatry as a student by reading Psychopathia Sexualis by Richard Krafft-Ebing, professor in Vienna, now worked as a doctor under the psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in the Burghölzli and became familiar with Freud's idea of the unconscious through Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) and was a proponent of the new "psycho-analysis". At the time, Freud needed collaborators and pupils to validate and spread his ideas. The Burghölzli was a renowned psychiatric clinic in Zürich at which Jung was an up-and-coming young doctor.

In 1908, Jung became editor of the newly founded Yearbook for Psychoanalytical and Psychopathological Research. The following year, Jung traveled with Freud and Sandor Ferenczi to the U.S. to spread the news of psychoanalysis and in 1910, Jung became chairman for life of the International Psychoanalytical Association. While Jung worked on his Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido (Symbols of Transformation), tensions grew between Freud and himself, due in a large part to their disagreements over the nature of libido and religion. In 1912 these tensions came to a peak because Jung felt severely slighted after Freud visited his colleague Ludwig Binswanger in Kreuzlingen without paying him a visit in nearby Zürich, an incident Jung referred to as the Kreuzlingen gesture. Shortly thereafter, Jung again traveled to the U.S.A. and gave the Fordham lectures, which were published as The Theory of Psychoanalysis, and while they contain some remarks on Jung's dissenting view on the nature of libido, they represent largely a "psychoanalytical Jung" and not the theory Jung became famous for in the following decades.

In November 1912, Jung and Freud met in Munich for a meeting among prominent colleagues to discuss psychoanalytical journals.[11]. At a talk about a new psychoanalytic essay on Amenhotep IV, Jung expressed his views on how it related to actual conflicts in the psychoanalytic movement. While Jung spoke, Freud suddenly fainted and Jung carried him to a couch.

Jung and Freud personally met for the last time in September 1913 for the Fourth International Psychoanalytical Congress, also in Munich. Jung gave a talk on psychological types, the introverted and the extroverted type, in analytical psychology. This constituted the introduction of some of the key concepts which came to distinguish Jung's work from Freud's in the next half century.

In the following years Jung experienced considerable isolation in his professional life, exacerbated through World War I. His Seven Sermons to the Dead (1917) reprinted in his autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections (see bibliography) can also be read as expression of the psychological conflicts which beset Jung around the age of forty after the break with Freud.

Jung's primary disagreement with Freud stemmed from their differing concepts of the unconscious. Jung saw Freud's theory of the unconscious as incomplete and unnecessarily negative. According to Jung (though not according to Freud), Freud conceived the unconscious solely as a repository of repressed emotions and desires. Jung believed that the unconscious also had a creative capacity, that the collective unconscious of archetypes and images which made up the human psyche was processed and renewed within the unconscious (one might find similarity with the ideas of French philosopher Felix Guattari, who wrote several books with Gilles Deleuze and once stated 'The unconscious is a factory, not a theatre.')

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

interesting things about HULA

1.little history about Hula Hoop

You may think that the Hula Hoop was a fad born in the 1950s, but in fact people were doing much the same thing with circular hoops made from grape vines and stiff grasses all over the ancient world. More than three thousand years ago, children in Egypt played with large hoops of dried grapevines. The toy was propelled along the ground with a stick or swung around at the waist.


2.some fun and nice performer's site.

Hooping has changed and enriched my life in many wonderful ways. Along with increased physical, mental, and spiritual awareness, hoop dance has brought me the gifts of joyous health, fun fitness, and lovely community. Over the years I've seen the hoop bring these gifts to many others as well, constantly affirming its positive, healing power.

Whimsical toy, symbolic dance partner, spiritual tool and circular portal to increased somatic and spiritual connection; as the evocative shape might suggest to you, a hoop is a holistic tool as the many benefits of hooping (or hoop dance) affect Body, Mind and Spirit.

Read more about the many benefits of hooping here

Friday, May 25, 2007

Elegant Universe

Hi, Guys
just to show you guys the link again, just click on the link below:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program_t.html

Gracias a todos companeros de clase y profesora por participar mi projecto!!!!

p.s. I was jottling down some words when i was watching this entire series.
look at my notes:
all forces
all matters
energy

Vibrating
wiggling
oscillating
jittering

strings
particles...

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Final Project?

So what I am suggesting from all these, is about my final project with Hoola Hoofs, are invoking the movemnts that has remote background of Kundalini yoga or Exercise, that helps to clean the energy body as well as it circulates, and safely help activating Kundalini, through the form of playing “Game” with Child like innocence, which is also trasforms the set of mind “OPEN” , simple, curiocity, and fun.

This project invloves in Displines like Healing, Yoga, Game, and Psycology and in betweens.. etc.



First happenings, were held in School of arte plastica, different parts of the old shchool through out the daytime to the evening within the students. -- May 21, 2007 Monday. ( recorded in video-camera )


Second, in the specific class room that ongoing project. With students and a profesor. -- expected to happen may 23, wednesday

Third, Public place, like beach, school, hospital, or nursing home would be recomandable. -- anytime, in btween may 23- next one week.
Spirals..
In the movements, it has directions, moves, towards or away, or towards and away, this case goes up and down.
Also it can change different diameter, ther is space in between..

So facinating, the reason I started to think about it is that, that is how I draw, when I start to draw without thinking, it just starts out like that and becomes something…

I started to think of the meaning of it.. why do I do this?
And I noticed that altos of other artists have been using it, in their arts, such a relief, but what is their versions of meaning of it??

I collected some images, and I forgot, anyways, it looks good.



And I started to take class,,,for the health reason,, that is learning the skills of healing the energy with energy through my hands …

Since I have taken Pranic healing classes, Things that I do made more sense, for better or worse, started to understand myself better.

Spiral movement:
From various classes, I gather that This movement carries the energy of humanbody. The lower energy body goes up and the higher energy goes down, it circulates…

Circulation, well, I am not yet an expert on theory of the effect of this execise,
but I do know that it has an affect on me. As a matter of fact any kind of exercise, or movements, like dancing, makes my mind clear after wise. More energized we feel.


Amost everyone knows or heard about that the exercise is good for our body, also we feel mental clarity improving after certain movement or exercise, or even from a deep breath, unless we do it extreme degree.

but I have not known, wht kind of movement will be good for what, and why do we do this exercise, well, body to body, we move legs, to make legs work out,

Is there more than that? Can it make my brain more active?
Can it be good for my lung too? And why do we feel good?



So I found some references: about energy body I talk about, and some Yoga history background, and practical simple exercises .


We carry several bodies, one that we can see and touch, without doubt, one that you kind of feel – emotinal body, one that we use all the time -- mental body, and one that we kind of see, kind of feel, but quite not so sure…-- etheric body(energy body)

THE ETHERIC DOUBLE
The Health Aura of Man
A.E.Powell

http://www.theosophical.ca/EthericDouble.htm

Anyways, the theory comes from ancient india, yoga, and one of the branch I had chance to hear about is, Kundalini, it is kind of very light form of this yoga.
If you look it up in Internet, there are so many ..


I found this simple one..

Historical Sources and Knoledge of Kundalini
http://www.sol.com.au/kor/14_02.htm



And another one I am familiar with is Super Brain Yoga. More or less with same concept, this case, with testmonies and simplified mordern version of it:


Super brain yoga
Can a 45-second workout sharpen your memory and concentration?


http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070522/LIFE/705220310/1004

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Lights...

The materials that i need to investigate for one of my projects: light medium.

There I found this artist, OLAFUR ELIASSON.
great work of him, to see the images of his works:

http://www.olafureliasson.net/selected_works.html

just pu the mouse on top of each title, it will show the images.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Little more stories about my thoughts on Porjects and Artists

When I started to thought about trans-disciplinary at first, I didnt have any problems. I see so many things in every day life so integrated with all of those different areas of disciplins already.. just pick one. simple. i thought.


then here came the confusion.. while i was researching the artists and their works, made me think ( it is good thing, right? profesor? ).. there i was stuck.




1.Agnes Denes's work ..

when i saw Agnes Denes's work on Public spaces, it reminded of me the projects we have done in Korea, like 20 yesrs ago for many years.

Under the Park president's regin, we did alots of public projects nation-wide to recover the country from the wound of the civil-war.

we did every year one day, april, we all go to the mountains to plant trees or to do maintenace work on trees. in such organized manner more like the work she did organize.

so there was confusion occur to my mind, where is border line between social work and art work?

2.Joseph Beuys work to heal the western society..

also in Korea, again, there were so much propagandas as i can remember, good or bad.

first: against communists.. i thught they were not human like us when i was little.
and later against colonialism of America...
and against corruptions of government..

all that of propagandas, most of them, were were heavily involved with art works. songs, dances, posters, poems..etc. we were bombarded from them almost everyday for a long period of time, like these days publicity(commercials).

so there came another confusion to me..., which is the line of propaganda art and pure(?) art?
are we doing pure art? what is it then? is it really exist?


God bless me. thank you.

Pranic Healing

Hey guys,
I forgot to mention about the background of pranic healing that i am practicing.. so that you know it is safe, :)

So i quoted from the website:


Founder of Pranic Healing
GrandMaster Choa kok Sui




What is PRANIC HEALING?
PRANIC HEALING is a highly developed and tested system of energy based healing techniques that utilizes "prana" to balance, harmonize and transform the body's energy processes. "Prana" is a Sanskrit word that means "life-force". This invisible bio-energy or vital energy keeps the body alive and maintains a state of good health. In acupuncture, the Chinese refer to this subtle energy as "Chi". It is also called "Ruah" or the "Breath of Life" in the Old Testament.

for more information:
http://www.pranichealing.com/

Ideas of Project

Hola, profesora,y companeros.
Gracais primero y felicidades dia madre!

tengo varios ideas sobre projectos. voy a presentar mis dibujos de ideas en la clase.


-- A:Principal de mi idea es aplicar varios tecnicas de sanacion del cuerpo energia de figuro humanos a mi piesas.


1. literal way: i could give general cleaning and energying healing to the class, each separately or all at the same time, as a performance.

2. playful way 1: small installation for the disposable box, playful with full of neon light, you can enter either inside, or could be in open space,without box, with alots of neon light sticks hanging or on the wall, or(and) floor.. like fountain, but with neon sticks.
people can go around and play with it while they are getting traeatment of light without knowing it.

3.playful way 2: same ideas as above, using hoola hoofs.. arrage the hoolahoofs, but spect-actors can play with them..
it is good for cleanig lower body energy.. increasing creativity....

You guys try at home!!!!


-- B: More Personal, healing of me:

I have this fix with hangers, it represents me as someone who was in your life very close, using same closets, but not the clothes nor the person is no longer there, close to me ( or others ). also the simple shape of it and its usfullness faciantes me.

1. i can make installation with hangers, i did once making dress out of it, but i would like to make more abstract images, and some way i will include elements of healing as well. and interactive if it is possible.


p.s.:
Profesor, if you have any other concerns or idea to improve, please leave me a note. Thank you so much for your help.

and i really appreciate all of our classmates that are so eager to help me out and each other with all their hearts.

God blessings to all of you. Hugs and Thank you from bottom of my heart.

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Joseph Beuys

Profesor assigned me to study about Beuye:
This is what i found in YOUTUBE, his famous performance: I like america.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTOD5Pu6uVM&mode=related&search=


Questions, more like thing i dont understand at teh moment:
1.fat chair
2.Tv set covered with felt and he is hitting the screen
....

and Barney Mathew's performances...

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Agnes Denes: Projects for Public Spaces

Thanks to teh article by Iris..
I was looking for te English version of her work, especially public art work.

here i copy teh article at internet:
still not clearl knowing the border line of art and public work, but i like what she did.
Along with her drawings..


TreeMountainProposalDrawing>


photos of montain>


Agnes Denes: Projects for Public Spaces
October 16 - January 4, 2004
(MILWAUKEE, WI) The Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University will present Agnes Denes: Projects for Public Spaces October 16, 2003 ? January 4, 2004. A retrospective of over 60 of her projects represented by 110 works, opens at the Haggerty Museum on Thursday, October 16. The artist will give the opening lecture at 6 p.m. at the Helfaer Theatre, followed by a reception at 7 p.m. in the Museum. The exhibition documents her work in the form of drawings, models and photographs from 1968 to the present.

Foremost among the works represented in the exhibition are "Wheatfield - a Confrontation" (1982) and "Tree Mountain ? A Living Time Capsule" (1992-1996). In May 1992, a two-acre wheatfield was planted on a Battery Park landfill in Lower Manhattan worth $4.5 billion two blocks from Wall Street and the World Trade Center. The crop was harvested four months later yielding over 1,000 pounds of golden wheat. "Tree Mountain" is a collaborative project of a huge manmade mountain of 11,000 trees planted by 11,000 people in gravel fields in Ylöjärvi, Finland. The forest was dedicated in June 1996 by the president of Finland, and will be maintained for 400 years to hold back land erosion, provide a home for wildlife, and create interaction between individuals.

"Artists of recent times such as Denes have frequently turned to environmental issues as a focus for making art," said museum director Dr. Curtis L. Carter. "Denesí work is of special interest as it links the built environment with nature themes."

Denes is currently designing a 25-year master plan for the Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie (2000) in the Netherlands. Her goal is to unite a 100 kilometer-long string of forts dating from the 16th to the 19th centuries. She is incorporating water and flood management, urban planning, historical preservation, landscaping, and tourism into the plan.

Denes' previous projects included in the exhibition are "Poetry Walk: Reflections," (2000), 20 granites carved with writings from poets and philosophers embedded in the lawn at the University of Virginia; "A Forest for Australia," (1998), the planting of 6000 trees of endangered species in five spirals; and "Uprooted and Deified-The Golden Tree," (2001), a fully grown tree uprooted, painted gold and installed floating in mid-air in Göteborgs, Sweden.

Denes was born in Budapest, Hungary and now lives in New York City. She lived in Stockholm as a child before moving the United States in 1954. Denes attended the New School for Social Research, New York (1959-1963), the City College of New York (1961-62) and Columbia University as a Robinson Scholar, 1964-66. She has been a professor at the School of Visual Arts, New York; the San Francisco Art Institute; the Environmental Art Workshop, Hartford Art School, Connecticut; and Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst, Salzburg, Austria. Denes' work has been the focus of over 50 solo and over 250 group exhibitions. She has presented over 150 lectures internationally and in the United States.

The exhibition was organized by the Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and is sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Fund, Marquette University College of Arts and Sciences, Milwaukee Arts Board and the Wisconsin Arts Board.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

first Notes

Inter-Disciplines
Multi-disciplines
Trans-discipline

The Three Pillars of Transdisciplinarity by Seb Henagulph :
The three pillars of transdisciplinarity --
1.levels of Reality,
2.the logic of the included middle,
3.and complexity
-- determine the methodology of transdisciplinary research.
http://www.goodshare.org/pillars.htm