Month: January 2016

THE BOOM

Dear Allison,

Here I am imagining the imaginary of how imagination works.

In order to imagine Hong Kong, I am asking myself, or I am trying to understand, what does it mean Imagination at all.

Instead of thinking that there is a World inside of me, I would like to understand it as a dictionary. A full range of feelings, emotions, city benches, ice-cream taste, blue skies, soft beds, my mothers perfume and and and… I can Imagine Michael Jackson dancing Moonwalker, well I saw him doing that, as I saw a video from the man landing on the moon.

It belongs to me, this huge dictionary of life, life that I lived 36 years long.

I feel this dictionary as an archive. There is no beginning or an end.. And Order??? Is there an order in the imagination?

Can I call it order the first thing that comes to my head?

The closest, the faster, the fresher?

There should be for sure on facebook one of these sentences.. The more I see, the more I am.

Or.. the more I live the more I am…

If that’s true, my imagination is build from my experiences.

There is an outside world, than something like a border.. the skin, the soul… and than an infinite me. Ohh…. are the captions / awareness / perceptions of thing infinite?

Is memory infinite?

To think that „my inside“ could be an archive or a huge black hole is… nice.

Things, places or situations are not only things, places or situations. They are perception (the inputs from the outside world) plus history (my inside).

So, can I say that MY reality is the coalition between my outside and my inside?

Ha! How should I call this moment.. Coalition, shock, instant, realization, boom?

So, now, I understand. I understand it better what I am doing here, my dearest Allison.

 

Reflection Locations, might be hunt for this BOOM.

 

 

colors

Hi Morena,

To focus on something more abstract, more about the perceptions,

here is something I wrote when I think about Zurich.

lighten up the air in my mind,

the perpetual bright space of white,

sparse clouds shiver, and cold is bitter.

in a thousand lines of the city,

I’m wearing the colors inside out,

and the face of the city fades to grey.

Not sure if this is any close to the reality.

But I’ve heard a lot about the color in the winter of Zurich: grey.

Low saturation, unlike Hong Kong.

Our plan changed. We are now on the way to something more conceptual and abstract, through a very simple element: color. We are trying to make some collages to picture the scenery of an unfamiliar place, maybe it never exists.

Visiting Phase

Dear all
We guess you are exchanging images, working on your common projects. The visiting phase is approaching very quickly (less than 2 weeks until the first HK students will get on the plane) and so it is crucial that you make the best use of the remaining time.
We don’t see too much of activities on the blog. We hope it is because you are busy working on your goals for our project. As the name of the project says, the key idea is to deal with imaginations and images of our two main locations Switzerland and Hong Kong.
You and your projects will gain most from the time on location (Hong Kong and Zürich) if you engage mentally and affectively – with the other place before you are there. You only have once the chance to confront your notions and ideas of the other place with first-time real, bodily perception on spot.
So whatever you are working on, make sure that you integrate somehow your imagination of the other place (drawings, images you received from your remote partner or researched them and appropriated them for your project).
To discover the other place will be a much richer experience if you dealt with it before with imagination, stereotypes, images, shortly our own images of the remote locations. To confront your imaginations with the experience on the spot is the main reason we are visiting each other.
If you have questions, if you need inputs, support, feedback, please contact us. We will be glad to help (if we can). We wish you all inspiration and motivation. Make the best of the remaining time. And we look forward to be hosts and guests.
Best and happy new year (soon for you in Hongkong as well)
Thomas and Birk