1st Practical Session

I've done it, I've only gone and bloody done it! I've had a session in the STUDIO (dramatic caps locks) and I have broken the creative seal. After an initial space issue / swap / late running class I arrived back in the studio and forgot how at utterly at home I can feel there. My particular studio had no mirrors (so no self judgement) and not much "dancer" traffic outside. Perfect conditions. I set out with an aims to clear and de-clutter my brain, to get a couple of sketches of circular shapes, and to generally get back into the swing of making.


Task 1 - Key words
I looked up in the dictionary (on my mac) the meaning of abjection this is what I found;

abject |ˈabˌjekt, abˈjekt|

adjective

1 [ attrib. ] (of a situation or condition) extremely bad, unpleasant, and degrading: abject poverty.

• (of an unhappy state of mind) experienced to the maximum degree: his letter plunged her into abject misery.

2 (of a person or their behavior) completely without pride or dignity; self-abasing: an abject apology.

DERIVATIVES

abjection |abˈjekSHən|noun,

abjectly adverb,

abjectness noun

ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘rejected’): from Latin abjectus, past participle of abjicere ‘reject,’ from ab- ‘away’ + jacere ‘to throw.’

I was unsure of what "self-abasing" meant so I looked that up to;

abase |əˈbās|

verb [ with obj. ]

behave in a way so as to belittle or degrade (someone): I watched my colleagues abasing themselves before the board of trustees.

ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French abaissier, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + baissier ‘to lower,’ based on late Latin bassus ‘short of stature.’ The spelling has been influenced by base².

I picked out the following as key words;

LOSS

REJECTED

WITHOUT

UNPLEASANT

EXTREMELY

TO THROW

AWAY

DIGNITY

SELF-ABASING

BELITTLE

BAD

UNHAPPY

DEGRADING

STATE OF MIND

PRIDE

I then added HAIR as this is the key focus of everything I am up to at the minute.

(I really do apologise if this is incredibly boring which I suspect it is)

I then wrote the 'word list' on to cue cards and tried to formulate sentences out of them. I managed (bare with me) 

I am aware they don't make sense.

After this little warm up task I decided to keep only the words are 100% relevant to me, and noted down a little sentence for each to clarify my reasoning. 

LOSS - I feel a sense of loss while looking through my hair collection.

REJECTED - Hair is rejected by my head.

WITHOUT - My hair doesn't look any different without my dead hair.

UNPLEASANT - Although I don't find my own hair unpleasant I am often unsettled by others. 

EXTREMELY - To buy human hair the same as mine is extremely expensive.

TO THROW - My boyfriend wants to throw my hair collection away.

AWAY - My hair collection is never far away from my mind.

HAIR - I feel my hair os one of my defining features.

I will us these words in my next workshop in a different task.

Task 2 - Shape and Movement.

For this task I explored the space taking photographs of points of interest, this familiarised me with a new space. I then used movement improvisation to create shapes with my body. I always improvise to music and used today UNKLE, Aphex Twin & Incubus. I filmed my movement and will try to pull out some shapes from the footage at a later date but I stopped and jotted two down in the process. 

Evaluation.

Initially I have a few thoughts. The dictionary discusses abject in the forms of situation, condition, state of mind, behaviour... yet there seems to be no mention of abject objects.

Why is (head) hair so attractive?

Whats with slow motion hair flicks in ads?

Is hairography an actual style of dance these days?

How will I react when my mail order human hair comes through the post?

That's it for now,

cheers ta bye.