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handed in the research proposal today. to formulate, justify and plan research for a question/problem that we had to find ourselves... it was the most difficult thing i have undertaken for a long time.
my classmate didn't turn up today, so i messaged her about how to hand in the assignment, and then she told me she will quit the whole course because she realised academic writing was not her forte... instead, she will focus on her interior design work.
so, i'm like, damn, am i doing the right thing? ..... but not really.
even though i can't articulate ideas for nuts, i don't want to give up. even though i don't know what i will do with myself in the future, i like learning artsy fartsy stuff.
in the tutorial class, Dr G told us to devise and carry out simple experiments to get inspiration for our projects.
he gave examples of methods about serendipity and randomness.
situationist stuff like meandering slowing in a busy urban space to annoy the people rushing to places, getting well and truly lost in places you won't expect to go to, misusing pre-existing material to subvert their (ideological) function...
i liked the one about Acconci's Following Piece, 1969. he basically tailed people until they entered private space. it suits me because you have to give up your goals, your sense of time and space, to follow the other's goal.
anyway, i performed my experiment in class, by making people take pictures using my phone, while i'm still holding it. got 2 pictures taken of me, 2 of the class lights... Dr G wrote on the whiteboard, "[Dr G] is the best teacher" and took a picture of that.
he thought this one was of interest because it revealed the greenish cast of fluro lights that we can't see with the naked eye.
my project is about how to see things differently, so this is one of the skills i need to upgrade.
