Feedback from Dom:

'Reading over your blog post it seems your focus is shifting away from the original idea of presenting complex systems. Although...by responding to someaesthetics you are in a way doing this anyway.

I think this is your issue:

"We humanist intellectuals too often take the body for granted because we are so passionately interested in the life of the mind and the creative arts" 

You have found some interesting research sources and theoretical essays to support this, perhaps a way to start this off would be to use these sources as your content.'

'You could look into the Fluxus movement and the use of 'event scores' they give the audience a series of prompts. By using prompts you could get the audience to consider the movement of their body whilst perhaps engaging with certain content. This content could be in a book, on a website, vinyl on a wall, pop up...'

- supporting of the new direction which is a big comfort. 

- wanting to try and think of ways of incorporating the body into the work, how could it be highlighted, or made more noticeable. 

- need to research into the Fluxus movement, try find inspiration there.

- I think using the research and essays as content would allow me to start making more work and developing the project further. 

Fluxus Movement Research

They produced performance "events," which included enactments of scores, "Neo-Dada" noise music, and time-based works, as well as concrete poetry, visual art, urban planning, architecture, design, literature, and publishing.

Fluxus was characterised as a shared attitude rather than a movement.

Fluxus had no single unifying style. Artists used a range of media and processes adopting a ‘do-it-yourself’ attitude to creative activity, often staging random performances and using whatever materials were at hand to make art. 

> The main focus is on including the audience and rejecting elitist art.

> Reading made me think about the screenings from first year and one of the screenings had instructions for the audience to follow with the video. They picked the instructions out of a bucket before entering the screening. 

> Really like the idea of adopting  'do it yourself attitude'. Feel I can incorporate the techniques I did in the Joe Gilmore book project to create some work that doesn't look intimidating.

- feel like I've started this already when scanning in my tests and seeing what happens to the letters. 

Where to go?

• Look more into how content can be manipulated to make people more aware of their own actions or bodies, how does the medium impact this?