contaminated life

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sbs shows to catch

http://www20.sbs.com.au/futurefocus/#15April
 http://www21.sbs.com.au/ecohousechallenge/

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the economies of sustainability

This isn’t related to any of the topics that we have discussed in class specifically but it’s something that i found myself thinking about quite recently due to two events that happened recently.
I went to a lady called Janet Pope last friday and she imports SPF which stands for Soybean Protein Fibre. Soybean Protein Fibre [...]

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walk upside down

31. Borrow money. Maybe then you won’t be too precious about how you spend it. 
34. Make mistakes slower. So you can actually learn from them, revel in them, understand them and make them (un) mistakes. Maybe then after spending so much time with them you will be used to making mistakes, that you will be comfortable in [...]

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Crossword Transformable

ORIGINAL: 
Make mistakes faster. This isn’t my idea — I borrowed it. I think it belongs to Andy Grove. 
TRANSFORMABILITY CROSSWORD: 

TRANSFORMED into: 
Borrow my idea.  
ORIGINAL: 
Explore the other edge. Great liberty exists when we avoid trying to run with the technological pack. We can’t find the leading edge because it’s trampled underfoot. Try using old-tech equipment made [...]

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6. The Interstice of Thoughts

Firstly, apologies for a belated post.
Where to begin on this subject of viscosity or “vis-’kä-s&-tE”? Well I wasn’t sure really, until I had one of those enlightened moments and realized what it is about the shower that I like so much. It is the place where most of my enlightened moments happen! Archimedes was [...]

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Shower Trap

For this task, which is a little delayed, it took me a while to finally think of something, but still im not entirely happy with my outcome and wish to persue it further if time allows.
I was thinking about shower caps and how they trap your hair in, so as not to get wet… then [...]

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6.1

Communal showers with the family and the flowers  
Like poor Sarah I was a tad confused about this week’s task. What did interest me however was the vicious cycle that seems to exist in regards to a typical individual’s relationship with the bathroom.Our need for clean has created an obssession and its about time we [...]

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Ex 7.1 from a to z

from-a-to-z.pdf

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Ex 6.1 Corrigan demands the bathwater be changed

A very late post. Continuing with the Building Eight theme, and my major project, I present the interior of the theatre. The act? Peter Corrigan in an oversized bath (so he appears more child-like), admirals hat on and playing with a toy boat. The bathtub has golden oars – Corrigan as Theseus, our hero? Beneath, [...]

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Body as Machine

Not related to this weeks exercise, but something I thought could interest the imagination, an din response to  both the CLoaca machine and the manipulation of the body commented on by Jen. Early 20th Century Illustrator and theorist, Fritz Kahn.

more images at;
http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/bodies/kahn/gallery/gallkahn2.html

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exercise 6.1 pleated lining jacket

Take an existing piece and rework it in such a way that it engages with a dimension of the environment, practices of living, buildings, sun/air/sound/gravity etc, conceptual assumptions, a technological apparatus, such that it is transformed and the operations of that dimension of the environment are transformed as well.
As buildings are built they are exposed, [...]

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The dirty jacket

I’m not sure if my blog this week exactly answers the question asked, but it does address issues of cleanliness, hygiene, the relative idea of dirt and the distinguishable differences between them. It is a continuation of the comment Sarah made about a dirty mark on a white t-shirt and hence the automatic transformation from [...]

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images

Here are some images that I’ve been thinking about for a while - not entirely related to this weeks material. I’ll post the relating text as a comment to save blog space.
         

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Archive, Ex6

The skin, our periphery, is the medium through which we physically engage with everything beyond the body. Consequently, the skin comes to house a fluctuating exhibition of souvenirs - a stain, scar for example – upon its surface. The skin therefore performs as a type of archive. This idea is illustrated by the museum of [...]

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Coal seat - ex6

Stinky isn’t it? The toilet has be extremely unpleasant because of naturally produced odour that comes from our own body. In the west, people put roasted flowers and herbs in a nice looking bowl or sew them into a bag, and put them beside the toilet bowl. People in east used incense sticks to change the smell [...]