Here are the notes I got from my presentation.
Explain the relation of fear, contemplation and frustration a bit more wtih regard to the sense list. Have you considered an emotion list?? Also look at contemplation in regards to the installation piece.
Both installation and lodge in The Shining are buildings in landscape.
literature/research on color/symbolism of color - color theory, look at Gurter (spelling??)
Is order a higher priority then chaos?
color codes are not irrelevant. is color coding subjective? also culture dependant
Maybe opened up a lot more then I need to.
Point of verticality in installation becomes lost.
Borges - time, existing - splitting time.
I'm illustrating the actual metaphor, the market maybe too literal as a maze. Should let it be w/o color coding (painting of overlaying mazes)
Walk through the park is good. Split screen provides many possibilties. Junctions are a strong point. Need to be more ambiguous. Don't explain too much because then you lose the metaphor.
History of Fort Greene park, it used t have a prison, hell is below. A landfill also used to be at the park. It was a British prison for Americans (a book came out about this, about 6 months ago)
Concentration vs. confusion - MRI on brain, when you really focus, the dot activity reduced to nothing and very concentrated. When relaxed, the dot activity is loose and all over the place.
Lots of emotion is picked up in film - danger, sadness, fear, peacefulness
Hell and Heaven aren't really emotion in nature, they are mythological and conventional.
The movie maze is central/circular, they is no way out - refers to minatour
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Here is some stuff that I have written so far.
The mind is a labyrinth.
Ideas behind film
The labyrinth is composed of a few ideas. One would be the idea of forking. When the labyrinth forks, you have a decision to make. Which turn do you take? Sometimes, the decision is arbitrary. Other times, the decision is influenced by some factors. In my movie, certain decisions are made because of influences such as changes in terrain and level of light. A path must be chosen.
Another idea is one of continuation. If there are no decisions to be made, no forks in the road, a person will continue in the same path. The path can seem long, dark, short, or happy, but until a person feels they have a choice, they will continue on the same path.
Forking and continuation are ideas seen by a person physically inside a labyrinth. Once a person begins to think above the problem at hand, they begin to see multiple solutions. These possibilities can all occur in the same time or place, but by being in the labyrinth, a person can only see one of these possibilities. In a God’s eye view situation, a person can see everything. A continuation of multiple ideas can lead to chaos. I began to show this in my film by playing multiple frames of the same place at different times. Also, beginning to mix sounds of different times with the sights of different times, begin to allow a person to get a sense of different possibilities. The idea of walking along a sunny path, but hearing the sound of rain drops, reminds a person that this place will be desolate and wet on a different day. Meanwhile, showing frames of the same place at different times concurrently, adds chaos, and our minds cannot process this information.
The idea of the maze from the God’s eye view needs to be frozen in time. If the maze is panned across or zoomed in on, it appears to begin to change, and cannot be read. In Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” the hedge maze is seen from above in model, map, and real form. However, each of these views is different. There begins to be a shifting of boundaries. The boundaries also shift from when Danny is inside with his mom on a sunny day and when Danny is being chased by his dad on a blizzard night. This provides a maze that is continually changing. As different factors begin to act on the maze, it behaves differently, effecting how decisions are made. In my film, the boundaries continually shift, from night, to a raining day, to a day of shadows, and an overcast day.
The first installation piece shows an emphasis on sound. The piece uses a canopy, which is similar to the trees and umbrella. The trees provide shade from the sun and change the sound of the falling rain. The canopy achieves the same idea. Also, there are platforms to walk on, which provide a challenge, since they are spaced a little too far from each other. This idea was looked at from Alice Aycock’s installation piece “the Beginnings of a Complex…” Aycock tries to create a piece that looks dangerous enough for the viewers to stop and wonder if they should try to use it. Most feel up to the challenge and reach out for it. My installation forces a person to wonder if they want to get their feet wet or if they want to walk in the boundaries of the shade. This installation also places a strong emphasis on the horizontal.
My second installation piece looks at the idea of forking. At a fork in the road, there is a block placed with a very small opening. It is placed to discourage a person from walking in that direction. It is obviously the more difficult decision to take, but a person may take it anyway. The way of the block is uphill and dark and while the other direction is downhill and brighter. However, people will be curious and still chose the other difficult direction.
The third installation piece looks at the idea of two parallel paths. There is the main path and adjacent to it is a smaller dirt path. The idea was to split the path so a person can choose to walk on either one. However, the dirt path is actually a dead end. So, if the person chooses that path, they would need to backtrack on their decision and continue on the original path. Each of my film installations deals with the idea of having the person make a decision.
For program, I am looking into the idea of the market. A market is composed of a series of stalls, which are placed on a path. A labyrinth is composed of tectonically similar elements, whether it be right angled walls, curved elements, or a concrete path surrounded by grass.
My film looks at the idea of continuation and forking. In a market setting, a person may know exactly what item they wish to buy. There is no decision making process. They walk straight to that item, to buy it. On the other hand, a person may go to the market not knowing exactly what they would like to buy. In that situation, they walk through the space looking at all the goods, trying to make a decision. The decision would be based on how good the items are. This can vary on terms of price, where is made, how it is made, etc. (conscious consuming)
In addition, I look to break the idea of the market into three different programs, such as a farmer’s market, an artisan market, and a food/drinking market. Each of these programs would occur at different times of the day. This is similar to the idea that Borges expressed in “The Garden of Forking Paths” where the concept of being about to see multiple possibilities at once is explored. In the film, this idea is shown in two methods. One is playing with the idea of showing one scene, but hearing a different scene. The second method, is looking at the idea of seeing and hearing multiple scenes at once. In a market with multiple programs, a person may see an artisan’s market, but may be eating strawberries from the morning market, and could still smell beer from the night before.
The movie also looks at the idea of a changing maze. The boundaries begin to shift, either by my installations or by changing conditions. The installations cause forking, shift boundaries on a straight path, or encourage walking in a direction. Different conditions can obscure a boundary or completely change it. A market will be continually shifting its boundaries to serve the different programs.
Program Cultural Vision
The market will be the type of program that I will be looking at. The market will specifically involve food and other goods. A market exists when there is a good that people want to sell and people want to buy it. Both ideas of the market in the superstore form and the bazaar form seem to be related in this manner of involving. Decision making is essential in this process. A seller decides how much they want to sell their goods for, where to sell their goods, and to whom. A buyer decides where to buy their good and from whom. Both have the choice to break the deal. A seller usually makes their decision based on their competition from others and how strong the demand is. A consumer will more then likely compare all their choices and has the freedom to choose. A buyer would base their decision on factors such as brand loyalty, where and how the food is grown, cost, the quality, or relationship with the seller. Also, according to Adam Smith, markets also work best when people operate with their best interests in mind. When people buy things that are the best option for them the concept of supply and demand becomes balanced. However, different influences begin to act on a consumer, such as advertising and store design. Advertising may try to sway a consumer to buy a certain product, but he/she may or may not buy that item. Personal experience or cultural ideas can sway a person also. Store layouts usually group similar items. Both ideas are seen in bazaars and the superstore. By placing similar items near each other, a consumer can quickly compare all the possible options. These messages can persuade a buyer to go in one direction or another.
Quantitative Program
Market
40,000 sq ft
People will go there to shop for food (all different types, prepared and unprepared) and other general goods. The goods need to be displayed in a manner where the people can view them and there must be a decision making process. There also should be a way to allow for shifts in what is being sold.
Meats
Fish
Dairy
Eggs
Frozen
Bakery
Produce
Floral
Cooked Food
Pharmacy
Floral
Beverages
Alcohol
Packaged Food
Stationery
Newspapers/Magazines/Books
Cosmetics
Cash-out
Also, after the midterm, I started thinking about other things. I realized that I kept looking at the idea of different stories. It seems that I was looking at the continuous of stories and was thinking of them at different times or looking at different decisions a person may have to make and different outcomes. It almost seems like stories are forking paths.
This also had me thinking about my choice of program, there is always decision making with the idea of shopping, but is it too rushed like how we were talking about? I want to have the idea of the multiple stories still in my project. I dont know if this means looking at using an older building with some sort of a history to it or doing something where you see a more immediate stories happening in the same place. I started thinking about how in the park in the revolutionary times it was a prison, then developed into a landfill, and somehow became a park. Those are longer stories, but inside those stories are smaller ones, such as the ones you see in my film.
I've also wanted my ideas to work in all three dimensions (Aycock's three dimensional maze). I really like the comments and ideas about ascending up the stairs to heaven and being disorientated down the stairs toward hell. At first I thought of the prison in the ground and then maybe rising something like a convent/monastery above. Both are composed of cells and encourage contemplation. However, if I stay with the market idea, there are goods which are considered less "moral" then others (goods that are made from recyclable materials, locally prodcued, etc.). The placement of goods in an up and down manner could go with the whole ascention and descending idea.
Also, for my site, I was thinking of using the financial district in lower manhattan, more to the east side. There, the streets are very maze like. The streets are very narrow, and are walled by buildings. There are also many dead ends and buildings terminate a lot of views. Once you get into the grid, you don't have this effect anymore. Also, this area changes drastically throughout the day, people running to and from work, and tourists wandering around.
"At a fork in the road, there is a block placed with a very small opening."
a cork?
a fork?
food and wine..?
sounds like something from dr. suess.
i think i can probably use the cork in the fork idea to slow down the program at times. i feel as if something needs to be changing about my program or i am not going to get what ive been looking at. i would need to slow down the idea of shopping. i think im a little nervous about that idea, especially in new york, since shopping is always about speed.
i think if the store changes to whatever is in season, at different times of the year there is more of some types of food, i may get the idea of a the changing store (giving different stories and splits in time). this may also be enough to slow people down to look at the food.
for site, i think ive narrowed it down a bit. i got lost in the financial district and found this spot (Stone St.area) that looked as if it was from the late 1700s. It was then surrounded by skyscrapers. I haven't seen this in NYC yet, this juxaposition, and I almost felt as if it was one of the points in my film where I use the split screen effect.
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