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This is part of a school-assigment in my Masters-degree. We are working with Creative Learning-processes, and part of this is actually working together in a group making a philosphy-based performance.<\/p>\n
We decided early on to work with Arne N\u00e6ss and Deep ecology. We asked ourselves, if we know about all the dangers, the state of the world, the climate change, all the pollution, and so on\u2026 why don\u00b4t we do anything about it? Why do we not<\/em> want to know, not<\/em> want to take action, not<\/em> want to see\u2026 Why do we only want to continue living in our own little world, of taking responsibility for our very own future?<\/p>\n Our performance doesn\u00b4t give the answers, but hopefully it will give food-for-tought when all three of us, spend 12 minutes basically just wallowing in\/celebrating\/exploring\/cultivating\/focusing on our own navels. Deeply concentrating on our own \u201ccentre of the universe\u201d. Weird? Yes.<\/p>\n Along with our self-sentration, we\u00b4ll be showing a film of 10 of the world\u00b4s worst man-made disasters. It\u00b4s a 3-minute-thing, and it goes in a loop. We\u00b4re trying to block out the film, by taping print-outs of photos of our navels over the screen. But of course the film just keeps on showing on top of the navel-prints. So when reality comes sneaking in uninvited, what do you do? Put on your navel-focus-dress and your navel-monocular!<\/p>\n I made the dress in white jersey polyester\/rayon, based on a very simple pattern. More or less one long tube with two smaller tubes attached to it. And a cut hole in the middle, for navel-viewing\u2026<\/p>\n To make it easier to see, I also made this three-of-a-kind navel-monocular (one for each of us). Made from a plastic tube, similar to the ones you use for kitchen ventilators. Simply attaching an elastic band around the head and another with velcro in the back to fit around the waist, and you\u00b4re good to go on self-exploration!<\/p>\n A picture from one of the other performances. Two lambs, black tape on the floor, a guitarist, playing the sheep-droppings as they landed on the tape, like if they were musical notes. The essence here is that when you remove nature from itself, you might end up with a lot of crap. Fortunately artists can turn even crap into art. It sounds a bit bizarre when I try to formulate it in words, but it was actually very cool, performed with a crazy-talented guitarist.<\/p>\n The third group did a piece on the refugees from Syria, trying to show them as individuals, not just part of a statistics. Pretty much the opposite of what we did in our piece. By the beginning of June we\u00b4ll need to make one big performance of all three of them, to show in Galleri Giga, the local art gallery. I\u00b4m looking forward to a very interesting process!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is part of a school-assigment in my Masters-degree. We are working with Creative Learning-processes, and part of this is actually working<\/p>\n![\"1\"](\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1-450x300.jpg\")
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