deers at Mt Olympus

snoqualmie hiking

Black & White Snoqualmie Falls

portraits at Snoqualmie Falls

hardware store art

9 questions

"Nine questions" for acting by Uta Hagen:

1. WHO AM I? (All the details about your character including name, age, address, relatives, likes, dislikes, hobbies, career, description of physical traits, opinions, beliefs, religion, education, origins, enemies, loved ones, sociological influences, etc.)

2. WHAT TIME IS IT? (Century, season, year, day, minute, significance of time)

3. WHERE AM I? (Country, city, neighborhood, home, room, area of room)

4. WHAT SURROUNDS ME? (Animate and inanimate objects-complete details of environment)

5. WHAT ARE THE GIVEN CIRCUMSTANCES? (Past, present, future and all of the events)

6. WHAT IS MY RELATIONSHIP? (Relation to total events, other characters, and to things)

7. WHAT DO I WANT? (Character’s need. The immediate and main objective)

8. WHAT IS IN MY WAY? (The obstacles which prevent character from getting his/her need)

9. WHAT DO I DO TO GET WHAT I WANT? (The action: physical and verbal, also-action verbs)

"Nine questions" were found in the text Uta Hagen’s “Nine Questions” via Go Into The Story website (LINK)

echo

 

Echo sculpture by Jaume Plensa in Seattle. The 46-foot head was added to Seattle sculpture park this May. "Echo" was originally installed in 2011 in Madison Square Park in New York City. The artist has also made the "lonely MIT man" sculpture at MIT campus (official name "WE"). Photos: Dimitris Papanikolaou

everyday music

Everyday Music (EM) is a store opposite The Elliott Bay Book Company. EM, as well as the Elliot Bay Book Company, kept their wood floor and ceiling. EM has a big open garage-door that allows for music of live events to flow around in the neighborhood. The open-doors concept in many stores in Seattle creates a very friendly, healthy urban atmosphere, whether you select to stay in- or out-doors.

book shop

The Elliott Bay Book Company makes you never want to buy books online!

Photos: Dimitris Papanikolaou

poem shop

The very innovative Poem Shop, found in the bus shelter of the 45th Annual University District Street Fair (and Farmers' market) in Seattle! A note from the website of the owner-poet:

Poem Shop is an improvisational poetry performance/business, with which I write on-the-spot poetry on a manual typewriter to the topic of your choosing. It is donation based. I perform at art gallery opening receptions, monthly art walks, book releases, author's readings, craft and farmer's markets, weddings, birthday parties, and any other social gathering you can imagine. I was introduced to the concept of improvisational poetry by my dear friend, mentor, and poetic guru, Jacqueline Suskin, in 2009, in Arcata, California. Upon moving to Seattle in early 2013, I took up the art/business full time. Poem Shop is widely versatile, as versatile as the topics offered to it. If you'd like to book Poem Shop for your event, or have any questions, feel free to visit the Contact page to begin discourse. Yours Indelibly, Matthew D. Rowe

Photo source: Matthew D. Rowe

From social media it seems that "Poem Shop is going on hiatus 5/23 - 6/29, to recuperate and focus on other writing projects." Waiting to read and experience these new texts!

Parrhesiastic Play

Parrhesiastic Play 

Freedom of speech and public space can be addressed according to Krzysztof Wodiczko (inspired by Michel Foucault) through the concept of the Ancient Greek Parrhesia, meaning to speak boldly. In the antiquity, only few privileged individuals, the Parrhesiastes. had the right, obligation, but also the strength to act the freedom of speech and to speak the truth for the others. Wodiczko suggests: 

“Contemporary Parrhesiastes should be the people who are least privileged, who have things to say which nobody wants to hear. From that group there should be born Parrhesiastes who should reprimand society and address the situations of authority’s unjust treatment or misunderstanding.” 

How can we create conditions in public space for the contemporary Parrhesiastes to open up and speak freely? What are the platforms for the true-tellers to communicate the crucial issues that others need to know? How can they disseminate these ideas to the others? 

Parrhesiastic Play is a performance architecture for public space that acts as communication platform for NYC citizens. Parrhesiastic Play is an alternative urban scrabble, a set of spatial elements that are both urban chairs and sculptural letters available to be arranged in different forms, and phrases by New Yorkers. Parrhesiastic Play can be positioned in multiple locations that are currently surveilled. By linking the physical space to the live webcams network, Parrhesiastic Play offers to people a stage to perform in front of the cameras, and disseminate their message to a larger audience while addressing surveillance through play and spectacle. 

In collaboration with Vien Nguyen

Parrhesiastic Play

Parrhesiastic Play currently on view at Designing for Free Speech Gallery, supported by Theatrum Mundi!

Freedom of speech and public space can be addressed according to Krzysztof Wodiczko (inspired by Michel Foucault) through the concept of the Ancient Greek Parrhesia, meaning to speak boldly. In the antiquity, only few privileged individuals, the Parrhesiastes. had the right, obligation, but also the strength to act the freedom of speech and to speak the truth for the others. Wodiczko suggests:

“Contemporary Parrhesiastes should be the people who are least privileged, who have things to say which nobody wants to hear. From that group there should be born Parrhesiastes who should reprimand society and address the situations of authority’s unjust treatment or misunderstanding.”

How can we create conditions in public space for the contemporary Parrhesiastes to open up and speak freely? What are the platforms for the true-tellers to communicate the crucial issues that others need to know? How can they disseminate these ideas to the others?

Parrhesiastic Play is a performance architecture for public space that acts as communication platform for NYC citizens. Parrhesiastic Play is an alternative urban scrabble, a set of spatial elements that are both urban chairs and sculptural letters available to be arranged in different forms, and phrases by New Yorkers. Parrhesiastic Play can be positioned in multiple locations that are currently surveilled. By linking the physical space to the live webcams network, Parrhesiastic Play offers to people a stage to perform in front of the cameras, and disseminate their message to a larger audience while addressing surveillance through play and spectacle.

*** To learn more about the project and to support it with your vote, please visit this LINK 

schools & experimentation

"Schools are one of the few places left where experimentation is to some degree encouraged, where emphasis is supposedly on process and learning rather than a product. Schools are also multidisciplinary institutions by nature, where discourse, practice and presentation can co-exist without privileging one over the other."

Anton Vidokle, 'Night School Opening  Remarks, January 2008,' www.newmuseum.org

theory-practice

"Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why."

panel discussion: glimpse

 Panel Discussion organized by The Garage, as part of Thesis Lab 2014 review, WIT

typical thursday: experiment / experience

Experiment / Experience by Dan Santacroce, as part of Thesis Lab 2014, WIT

Thesis Lab 2014: the publication

Photo by Patrick Brady

goodbye wit...

...it has been great 3 years!

miami office

public space? lost & found

class as a public space?

M504 class at BAC, 320 Newburry street