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Week by Week - Hong Kong II - Transcultural Collaboration
Week 11 In a nutshell Planning: until final presentations Reflection: discussing the 2nd phase / Shanghai with Sabine Harbeke Lecture: Joëlle Bitton on Spoken / Unspoken – Notions of Linguistics Group building: incl. ideation process and methodological experiments Team work: project conception and performing ideas Lecture: Jau-Lan Guo, curator and educator from Taipeh Monday Introduction of Joëlle Bitton who was new to the group and Sabine Harbeke who had already worked with us during a two-day workshop on the topic of feedback in the Zurich phase. Joëlle Bitton presented her work that meanders between linguistics and technology. She’s interested in how technology shapes nations, people and bodies. The body as well as movement she perceives as interfaces. In that sense, her works often aim at embodied interaction. She tries to interweave a personal with an engaged point of view and access deeper meaning through the everyday, the apparently trivial. For example has she been wondering how we can make fabrication tools more personal, embodied and intuitive by being more playful with them. She calls this “performative materiality”. What happens to …
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