After a little discussion about our coffee project, we moved out to discover 19th and 20th arrondissements. It was aoutside day and it was pleasant to walk in the street and see different landscapes under the snow.
Aujourd'hui le programme était libre, chacun a suivit son propre chemin. Avec un petit groupe de dix personnes nous avons déambulé dans les rues enneigées des 19 et 20 arrondissement.

Connected

Day 2:

Group 6

Salle 200...

A big improvisation with projections, drawing, dancing, and the most experimental bassoon sounds.


We don't know where we are going, and that's what is good about it.

Café La Guerre - Groupe 8 Lives

Le Cafè La Guerre was established today to get into business tomorow in the afternoon. A Platform. Getting inspired by people. Passersbys. Artists. Each of them. Just because they express themselves in their own speacial way, whatever it might be. Do they know about that ? Do they care. Will they step inside? One thing they surely can't resits will definetly be a more or less delicicious cup of "Free Coffee".
Let's see what will happend. To be continued.....

FORCE FIELD ANALYSIS GROUP 3

6. 01. 09 We're managing to find the rythm. Maybe using a radio and african music, under statistical snowflakes, doubtfully. We are just looking for something real, that is something that implicate a non-artistical phenomenon. A slow motion of our combined realities, passing a baton, a drumstick, a glut of feelings, playing with walkie talkies, create the rules of the game. Marché Riquet. Maybe this is our passerelle to reality.

Trying to meet the Number...

Today was about finding ways to meet one specific Number we are looking for.
Of course this Number is 104, or 1-0-4.

We just thought about this strange name for an artistic place, or further, for a building. It is both a name and a non-name : 104 can be plenty of other things that a name for this place. It can be other places. It can be an abstract Number. It can be an account, the result of an addition. It can be time. It can be people too.
We are now asking the connection between this Number and how to use it as a way to meet people and to share our work with them.

All of us think that we need to make fun to be efficient in our work. Our work is about being open to each meeting, to go where we think a meeting with this Number is possible, and to provoke the meeting. The more pictures, notes, video, sounds or whatever, we collect, the more interesting will be the collection of them, and the more easy-to-understand will be the link between them. We just want to trust the chance.

The only danger for us is to become obsessed with this Number and to see it erverywhere...

Tomorrow we are going to find as much as "104" we can find in the city.
We will also discover how "104" can be connected with other places out of Paris. We will go to a little town in Aube, one hour by train from Paris. This town seems to have a very specific relationship with the Number... We have to explore that.

This is group 9 : Aleigh, Antonin, Clarence, Etienne, Valerie.

Si l'esprit est la, deplace le verre

This morning, we spent more time drinking coffee, trying to stay warm, and discussing how to incorporate all our working methods into our collaborations. Where does it fall, on the spectrum between improvisation and conceptually driven work?

We discussed criticality in the place of our artwork concerning 104. It seems that other groups work on projects based on criticism of the institution. Perhaps if we work with the historical specificity of the building, we can talk about something else. So we discussed the morgue, and though perhaps we can contact the spirits of the dead people on video.




No spirits would talk to us, but the video is good, a funny document of the working process of this collaboration, its strengths and shortcomings.

Later in the afternoon, we drank more coffee and experimented with video projects, recording a scene and then projecting the scene onto its contents, while they carry out a different narrative.




Visually, it can be something strong, and we decided to all search for an application within the institution and the neighborhood.

Also, the 104 gave us use of a wall in the building. We are making a plan.

Happy Kids Play Outside!

Group # 2 [Day 2 ]


>>>>List

cold
hands
feet
nose
cold
art ...inside/outside
video
capture
cold
hands
feet...are they dead?
nose
mind...turn around
cold
repeat
retry
rework ...near the concentration?
cold.

There is no feeling left in our hands and yet our minds are full. The cold weather outside did not stop our process, today infact quite the opposite! The power of the mind and body can work in many conditions.



turning red head <<<<<

Searching for Danger. . .

What is dangerous?

- the neighborhood?
- explosives?
- guns?
- drugs?
- terrorism?
- scientific testing?
- speaking another language?
- fear?
- cold?
- 104?

Today we decided to work more with our hands. . .
An army of matches, on their way to combustion;
A woman with a gun;
A knife covered in sugar;
A person avoiding the camera;
An improvised song & dance (Tarantino as an inspiration).

It is cold. Even inside the 104. We are having trouble holding the match sticks and the sugar.

We met boys from the neighborhood. They asked us about our burnt bike and plastic gun. And they asked what we were doing. One boy said his gun at home was bigger than ours. We asked them if they passed through the 104 often, and one boy said it was the quickest way between his house and where he was going.

Group Number Seven: In the Neighbourhood

Impressed by architectural surrounding we decided to investigate the direct neighbourhood of the 104. We managed to enter one of the skyscrapers, actually called "battérie haute", ...

... and went up to the 25th floor.

There we encountered a nice young family who allowed us to enter their flat and to enjoy the amazing view of the 104. Thus we realized how interestingly the old building is integrated into the whole area. In the following time we asked the inhabitants of the neighbourhood about their opinions concerning the 104 which lead to surprising new insights.

The last picture I dont have to explain, do I ?

By the way: we are Mai, Polina, Ben, Daniel and Julia

The unifying principles of coffee...

GROUP 8 DAY 1
Whether old or young or upper class or lower class, one thing all Parisians can agree on is a nice cup of coffee or kaffee or café. One of the main reasons for this (besides it being very cold) is that going to a café is always a comfortable experience for the locals as well as those of us who are out of place.

Layer 1

Day 1 :

Simon Rouby, Dylan Corlay, Malte Wandel, Gonzalo H. Rodriguez, Nicholas Bruder


We are group Six, Six, Sechs, Seis.


A long day of wandering around the neighborhood where 104 resides.

Snowy footprints.
A chat with a man who is losing his home.
A man that already lost his.
A lone TV, about to find friends at the bottom of a canal.
Mattress…cheese mattress.


Used Christmas tree, nice chair.




All of these has provoked a dicussion between the five of us about this neighbor and the people who live here. We asked questions about 104 and what we think they think about this place. Questions about a tourists optimisim and a locals pessimism. All together, we have no clear formulation of how we create from these questions and happenings. But what has occurred is a creation of a group of very different artists that have enjoyed taking a long walk to together.

You might eventually see a bit of dancing, music, live animation. Even some films and local or two. And then some. That it is.

Cheese Horse or she is a horse ?

Honestly, things develop slowly and fast at the same time. But on the other hand: we are pretty much done.
So what do I mean?
Our group, thats Polina&Ben&Julia&Mai&Daniel, spend the day exploring 1 Euro Shops, supermarkets and interviewing locals to find out how the 104 project altered the social landscape of the neighbourhood. many people were unaware of the purpose of 104, but were also excited to learn about it from us. trying to get in real contact with local residents, we kind of entered the 25th floor of the opposite appartment building. There we were welcomened by a young family who let us enjoy a very fine view on the 104 complex from their balcony.
cheers and nastrowje.
Daniel and Polina.

Strings, Circles and Buckets

Group # 2

(Florian, Charlotte, Blanca, Thorsten and Ariel)

Simple Facts -

thinking

talking

creating

changing

drinking

walking

freezing

boring

eating

finishing

... and after all that we found out that our 5 major ideas (STRING,CIRCLE,T-SHIRT, SOUND and VALUE) will have to wait till tomorrow to be realized.

If you talk the talk you've got to walk the walk

5. 01. 09. First ideas. Exploring the city, this part of the city is measuring it. Measuring it with the rythm of the walk, of the snow falling on wood, concrete blocks, cars, the rythm of lights and trains passing on the bridge. Sounds of the street. We discussed in a coffee. Scott is transforming datas in music, using first his H4 recorder, taking sounds from the street, transforming it into rythm. Synchronise, shift, distorsion. The street is a field, a magnetic field in which you can interact with visibility. As a sculptor, I would consider the situation as open as possible and focus on process. Failure is a possibility. Possibility is risk, rythm. We talked about using walky talkies. It's all about a soulfull way of taking measures, walking the lines, waiting for trains. Railroad. A word : urban. As a field of interacting possibilities, interacting people.Define the rules of a game. Shift. A laboratory for rythm. Metronoms and great scaffoldings. Bettina is exploring the possibility of a movement, maybe interacting with people from the neighbourhood, in supermarkets or on passerelles.

The Armadillo

Our group consists of 6 members: Bianca Boragi, Yoann Durant, Matthew Siegle, Cléa Manzoni-Lucht, Judith Nuessler, Tim Cierpiswzeki.

This morning, the groups were divided mathematically. Group number 5 consists of 5 people who received number 5, and one who received number 7.

We left the 104 building, exploring the streets in the snow, in attempts to understand the neighborhood context of the institution. After a little bit, we decided to go to a cafe for discussion, settled at Cafe Mathis, It has a wonderful old fashioned setting, complemented with a stuffed armadillo and a fishtank. We dicussed whether 104 fit the role of its pruported mission.

After lunch, it was time to explore the neighborhood once again, this time in search of a quick project. This would serve as a starting point for further productions.

We ended up in a laundromat. Yoann wanted to improvise noise with his soprano saxophone, corresponding to the machines. Judith decided that she could dance between Yoann's noises, the machines, and improvisational performances of Bianca. Matt filmed this as video, and Tim and Cléa took pictures and stood by.




After the performance was completed, Tim and Cléa indicated that they didn't have a point of access for the collaboration, while Matt only documented.

We went for another coffee at Cafe Mathis, watched the video, looked at the pictures, discussed how to move forward. A reoccuring theme in our conversations was the discrepancy between the context created by 104 and that of the existing neighborhood (including beloved Cafe Mathis and the armadillo). Perhaps this can be a common theme for our work week?

Back at the 104, we ate almost a full tin of cookies and continued talking. Now the moment arrived to focus our efforts: do we choose a specfic conceptual drive behind our week, in attempts to form one singular project, or do we free ourselves from trational practices and rules, creating new work of the moment each day? We argued.

Cléa suggested, perhaps, "Let's come up with a word, a theme, to have as a starting point, so those who are less improvisionally motivated can access collaboration each day."

We decided on deplacer. In german, this is deplaziert, in english, this is to displace. Tomorrow, we each will also bring one small item to indicate our working process around this idea.

First day at the 104!

- Qi Gong
- Constitution of the groups: We (Lily, Jean-Baptiste, Jana, Louise, Bijan and Laetitia) are groupe one!
- Collecting of photos and videos in the 104 area.
- Beautiful lunch!
- Recovering of objects from the street like a burned bike or plants...
- Discussion about the notion of danger.

optimistic in paris with wet feet

paris is full of something which is considered to be snow. 

it is grey and definetely not snowlike, therefore not the best start to wander around 104 and get a good first impression on the area.

colourless, well grey and beige could considered to be a colour, but the shapes and colours after stepping out of the hotel are more stew-like than town-like. considering, that a big group of artists are supposed to start being creative RIGHT NOW seems like an aim for very optimistic people. most artists usually need a while to start the day optimisticly. or could at least try 3 more coffee. or: QIGONG!

starting the day with that made it easier (after another coffee) to look out of 104 again and getting interested in this task.

then it became interesting...

the art will start tomorrow. 

discussions started but we agreed, optimistic as we are now, quite quickly what about and how we´re going to work like from now on.

our plan is to meet a number. noone will guess what number that might be, but the art will develop by just working and not by staying inside, desperately finding a sujet to work on. especially when it is that bäh outside.

this was group 9 (etienne, ali, clarence, antonin, valerie)

CalArt's students roadmap

A message to the CalArt's students :
You will find here a pdf with the different itineraries between airports and hotel.

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