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LOCUS28

(15) Amina Nugumanova, George Simmon, Stef Roeling, Génésia Goudal

“A LOCUS OF COMMONISM: an online community where every  participant is responsible for dialogue and its success. Together, yet alone, we hope to become active and prospective participants of the new normal.

Coeno-flux, home symposium for movement, localism and  globalism. Together we orient ourselves.”

⬛️ WEBSITE (IN PROGRESS) https://0000000000000000001.nl/archive/locus28

⬛️ MOCKUPS

⬛️ TWITTER ACCOUNT

https://twitter.com/ACommonism

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🟣 WKM3: 10 objects

1 - BIKE PATH.stl

2 - CONSTRUCTION SITE.stl

3 - ORGANISED FENCES.stl

4 - SOCIAL SPACE.stl

5 - BINS AND PAINT.stl

6 - CLOSED PARK.stl

7 - FUN, MIRRORS AND FENCES.stl

8 - ACTIVITY CENTER.stl

9 - ALTERNATIVE PATH.stl

10 - EMPTY PLACE WITH BENCHES.stl

My 10 objects are simple life stills from my little town in France, Saint Pierre de Chandieu. I chose to focus on elements of architecture, mapping and street furniture around me, how they look, how they are (or not) being used... They all, in various ways, represent and shape our relationship with the common place, the city.

I bring them back to another life by creating lithophanes out of the Google maps screenshots. They, now, belong to the analog and digital world, forever. The only way to fully perceive the scenes is by manipulating them or moving around, which engage the looker in the action of sensing and decrypting something as mundane as the everyday environment. It also situates contemporary city digital views as archeological pieces. 

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🟣 WKM3: Leaders are all

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🟣 WKM2: Who will take the lead?

⬛️ KNOWLEDGE - Small-scaled forms of power and leadership

• As Drivers of Change demonstrated: The most efficient choices, actions and regulations are being engendered by cities rather than their national governments. Cities are leading climate action commitment.

"Cities are the front line. (...) Tokyo emits 55% less carbon per capita than Japan at large, as does Rio de Janeiro (72% fewer emissions) when compared to Brazil at large."

Drivers of Change - Who Will Take the Lead?

• On the other hand, we witness a rise of citizen-led initiatives encouraging climate action.

"Conventional approaches of voting, lobbying, petitions and protest have failed because powerful political and economic interests prevent change. Our strategy is therefore one of non-violent, disruptive civil disobedience – a rebellion. Historical evidence shows that we need the involvement of 3.5% of the population to succeed – in the UK that’s about 2 million people."

Extinction Rebellion, rebellion.earth/act-now/

⬛️ ‘ROLEPLAY’ & UTOPIA - Leading locally, leading globally

I believe in positive change through people's action and acknowledgement of the common environment, the milieu both social (the community) and physical (the space). 

My belief: The people will take the lead by acting at small or large scale in their everyday lives. They are the new form of leadership.

My hope is that creative experiences and social dialogues will result in people understanding better their possible scope of action, their role. My worry: How can I activate increasing consciousnesses of the milieu?

I've got 2 things to tackle: • Activating a consciousness of the situation. (PARTICIPATIVE BRAINSTORMING) • Generating ways to inspire personal and positive action. (TANGIBLE METHODS, PROTOCOLS)

⬛️ PLATFORMS FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION and STRUCTURED DIALOGUE

"The Institute for the Future released Signtific (an online game platform) in 2009 to help regular people engage in future-casting, or predicting the future. (...) The staff produces a short video introducing a provocative yet possible future scenario in the year 2019. (...)

"What will you do when space is as cheap and accessible as the Web today?""

People had to post their answer either in terms of positive imagination or dark imagination, in 140 characters or less. Players could not respond freely but were asked to use 1 of 4 types of response: momentum (add ideas), antagonism (raise disagreements), adaptation (other manifestations of same idea) or investigation (ask questions).

❤️: public engagement in social dialogues, clear structure for respectful debates. ❓: focus on translating these debates into tangible possible change. Except speculating futures, what are the core objectives of such a platform?

Signtific, 2009, The Institute For The Future.

⬛️ PREVIOUS EXPERIMENTATIONS

Themes raised in my WKM01, 12 hours of ephemera: Ephemera, interpretation, fiction, random anthropology, protocol & action, common, mundane, physical/digital.

To explore now: • Collecting people's thoughts and their mundane way of acting for the climate could be a possibility. A participative and public approach. • Researching 'ways', ideas of platforms, protocols to raise questions, filter responses and generate scopes of action.

⬛️ CURRENTLY READING

📖 'The Participatory Museum' by Nina Simon, 2010 on participation, networks, social platforms/experiences, collaboration, co-creation, impact. LINK

📖 'Down to Earth, Politics in the New Climatic Regime' by Bruno Latour, 2018 on globalisation, politics of the common world(s), beliefs, opinions. LINK

⬛️ Latour analyses and says: "the abandonment of a common world leads to epistemological delirium".

I would like to respond to its utopian contrary: "(how to) become participant in a common world against epistemological delirium."

(epistemological = relating to the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope, and the distinction between justified belief and opinion)

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🟣 WKM1: 12 hours of ephemera

Throughout the day, I recorded my thoughts on paper and scanned 12 sequences of objects around me, things I like, pieces from my mind palace.

I then designed a zine/book exploring the themes of: mind palace - objects - life - ephemera - protocol - diary - intimacy - common space - conflicts - death - archive - cloud

By confronting objects from my surroundings with digital analysis tools (AI), the narratives swing in between intimacy, randomness, data and categorisation of the mundane. Will the cloud (…as an online auto generated archive shelf ) become the new way of extracting, revealing the everyday life? or not.

⬛️ INSPIRATIONS

• Dieter Roth - ‘Flat Waste’  1975 Quotidian cataloguing of arbitrary detritus. Stored in relevant binder and stock up into shelves.

• Petra Cortright - ‘Hell Tree’  2005 Online artist book exploring rupture facades, revealing the bones of softwares.

• Cory Arcangel - ‘Data Diaries’ 2003 An autobiographical portrait and record of the artistic process. Methods of auto-generated computer graphics revealing hidden RAM files.

⬛️ LINK TO BOOK VIEWER

https://issuu.com/genesia.goudal/docs/weekly_make_01

⬛️ DIARY ENTRIES

9:00

wake up in silence. check my phone, obviously. some cereals and tearing up to an adoption video. planning the day; looking through my sketchbook, what am I gonna do? reading about net art projects :/by rhizome their approach to graphic detritus, unseen data and interactive networks in public space. http://archive.rhizome.org/exhibition/artbase101/ how to auto generate computer graphics? google help me.

10:00 looking into google a.i. assistant to analyse and classify data in pictures. a new way of archiving? objects of vague and surprising dialogues, floating around… my feet are shaking, I am excited to see if this could work. … "en cours, importation des images" … just tried out the very simple a.p.i cloud vision by google. me, myblog profile picture, an answer.

11:00 making my bed; hope into the shower, one selfie before, one selfie after. dancing to the monkeys, hoovering my room actively, quickly get things done. energy is flowing. classified, everything is in place. ahh.

12:00 the smell of fresh food is sweet. eating with my sisters and mom, around some mashed carrot and roasted potatoes. wildflowers on the kitchen table. dealing with boyfriends struggles.

13:00 after lunch, there is time to do nothing. sitting in our velvety couch and building my Animal Crossing island a bit more. planting some flowers. enjoying the sun. exploring the garden.

14:00 froth and cappuccino. duvet to the hands. (…) a few flowers.

15:00 every afternoon, time flies by. detritus, ephemeras, proofs of life. birds are singing. how can this images fit together? what questions or feelings do they produce?

16:00 diving into collections of artists' books :/https://edcat.net the work feels true, raw; its intimate but exposed, ready to be seen. starting to design a little book of data.

17:00 hop on indoor bicycle and run 8.8 km. new record!! my heart is racing but I feel more at ease everyday. still 3 weeks to complete. 21. now sitting comfortably in this 2000s ikea swinging chair. wind. sigh. the best moment of the day. finished a yoga training to restore muscles and breath. "bring your attention back to your body" she said. while fountain water is flowing, the sun sets down.

18:00 the day slowly, rapidly ends. listening to acoustic songs and putting lotion over my face. soup is in the making.

19:00 my dad came back from work, talking about the day while having some goat cheese. my stomach hurts but I continue. after dinner, having some leftover easter chocolate. playing with 'gantou', our rabbit. cute and gentle.