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[June 8, 2012]
And, What Is The Relationship Between Idea and Object. In particular, a discussion concerning the immaterial object of labour. Those who become object in public when doing mundane activities such as wiping tables, cleaning bollards, are becoming invisible. Is this invisibility where they want to be? My body is an object, if I say it is. So perhaps this invisibility need not be a negative condition; only when it is self chosen.
This is a conversation that took place between Richard Layzell, Gabriel Badamosi, Jasper Joseph Lester, Rose Martin, Fiona Candlin and Lucia Farinati. It started at 2:45pm on March 23rd 2012, and is still going.
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[June 8, 2012]
Nostalgic objects, objects that make you go “ahh”, objects that you can’t explain why but you succumb to their triviality, except simply…because. A PEZ dispenser. Grand Designs. A snow globe, the perfect trivial object. Trivial makes everything important. The fun-factor, the entertainment, the enjoyment, the non-importance we pull from these trivial things, to what impact on the object?
This is a conversation that took place between Jos Boys, Paul Wilson, Galen Riley, Emma Cocker, Jasper Joseph Lester, Dale Holmes, Lisa Watts, Harriet Davis and Ruth Wilde. It started at 3:30pm on March 23rd 2012, and is still going.
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[June 5, 2012]
Unexplained human emotions drive you to gather, collect and care for multiple things. Or you despise objects cluttering and covering and invading your space. Or you gather and disperse in fluctuations of ownership. What does this trait say about you? What do these interactions reveal of your understanding of objects, or is it something deeper, more concerned with your age, stage in life and state of mind? Here we go again, using objects to make judgements about ourselves…
This is a conversation that took place between Julie Westerman, Fiona Candlin, Jos Boys, Gabriel Badamosi, Galen Riley, Eugene Nyee Macki and Sharon Kivland. It started at 5:00pm on March 23rd 2012, and is still going.
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Emotional life of objects
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