COMMUNICATION- workshops - Eliot Moleba



DAY 3 -  07.02.24- see full notes transcript
summary of notes
  • Difference between story and concept

  • Definition of a story: 
  •     -When something happens
  •    -Starts from a question - what kind of questions?
  •    -Perspective
  •    -interpretation/ expression of something
  •    -A way of making sense of something

  •     HELP TO DEFINE STORY: WHERE WHAT WHERE WHO WHY HOW WHEN
  • What makes a good story: 
  •     -Relatable
  •     -Perspective
  • ie= curiosity, it boils down to being curious

  • When thinking of art projects: what’s the thing that makes us/an audience curious. What’s the ‘where what where who why how when’.
  • concept= seed, the story is the act of growing



 









 Exercise into synthesizing your concept down to where why what when who how:

My concepts: time, cycles, more-than-human perspectives, legacy (cycles = time).

Story: planting seeds, having the stories/perspectives of the present more-than-humans (trees) around Losæter from since they were seeds, imagining the stories/perspectives of the more-than-human (trees) to be, writing the story of what your descendants sitting under that tree will think about you, engaging in a traditional craft.

‘Connecting past, present and future more-than-human perspectives (stories?) through trees, seeds and our own imagination.’ (add: of Gamlebyen?)

  • What connects the three concepts- that’s the actual concept. OR 3 parts to a connected story. 
  • Anti-anthropocene? Contra-anthropocene? 
  • The more simplified the concept is the easier it is to communicate
  • When dealing with the concept as a phenomenon, raise it to that level.