TWC
A brief attempt at a manifesto...................
The introduction of a side project is an appealing prospect.
If we take the idea that we haven't yet done what we are going to do, we have the capacity for unlimited possibilities. The only things stopping us is us.
Opportunities through competition entries, expressions of interest, exhibition, installation come and go quite quickly. There is often little time to enter, make things happen, go with it.
Through TWC, we aim to share ideas and awareness; an informal arrangement that encourages uninhibited exploration of ideas and techniques
It has been said we don't choose the work, the work chooses us, however we tend to get the work we do.
With this in mind we hope to, through the Wednesday Project, take a proactive step towards our collective futures though discussion, confluence, critique and of course collaboration.
We are interested in cultural engagement, the provocative, the ability to reshape and reconsider our worlds through direct engagement through competition entries, dialogue, exhibition.
Mainly, we'll just make and create stuff.
Hands on, the temporal, the digital, messy, clean, the absurd, the solemn.....just for a start.
The Wednesday Club is weekly/ bi-monthly session not necessarily held on a Wednesday……
The Wednesday Club seeks a name. ……
Ben Statkus
TWC
Could be a platform for departure as a group and as individual with group support, to be positive, pro-active, and creative. The platform could be a podium and could aim to be flexible; however besides the need for a name TWC also requires a backbone.
TWC could be inquisitive towards society and to raise awareness of what needs to be known, without becoming an activist group.
TWC = ARTchitecture ?
TWC= not ARTCHIGRAM
TWC could proof to be more then the side project , although this could possibly require a more serious side providing funds etc.
TWC =FUN
FUN=TO STAY
Long term /short term, make it happen, let it grow see where it takes us.
TWC could aim to go beyond, creation for the sake of creation.
TWC could possibly become a source of income, where we choose the work.
What do we choose and why do we choose it?
What is important to TWC?
Are there any borders? What does TWC not do?
TWC asks questions.
Does TWC give answers?
Some idea’s for a name….???
Collagen (my personal favorite)
Means: (Any of various tough, fibrous proteins found in bone, cartilage, skin, and other connective tissue. Collagens have great tensile strength, and provide these body structures with the ability to withstand forces that stretch them. Collagens consist of three polypeptide chains arranged in a triple helix, and are bundled together in fibers. When boiled in water, collagen is converted into gelatin.)
Elastic cartilage
Means: (Elastic cartilage or yellow cartilage is a type of cartilage present in the outer ear, larynx, and epiglottis. It contains elastic fiber networks and collagen fibers.[1] The principal protein is elastin. Elastic cartilage is histologically similar to hyaline cartilage but contains many elastic fibers. These fibers form bundles that appear dark under a microscope. These fibers give elastic cartilage great flexibility so that it is able to withstand repeated bending. It is found in the epiglottis (part of the larynx) and the pinnae (the external ear flaps of many mammals including humans). Elastin fibers stain dark purple/black with Verhoeff stain.
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STAGE
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Tjeerd
LANI'S MANIFESTO
WHAT I WANT
- Creative stimulation and outlet
- Get conceptually charged
- Collaboration:
o Supportive + ideas nurturing environment whilst maintaining brutally honest appraisal
o Dialogue – forum for developing + enhancing eachothers ideas
- Platform to achieve/establish a creative, financially sustainable entity of some manifestion
WHAT I’M GONNA GIVE IT
- Committment
- Momentum
- Head
- Gumption
PRINCINPALS:
- Propose not oppose
- Inclusive
- Always have a position– political/societal/conceptual
- Fun
- High craftsmanship in everything we do
LOGISTICS
- Realistically attainable and executable projects – ie finish what we start
- A considered path to tangible results – on a project by project basis, identify our goals and eat ‘em for breakfast
CONCEPTUAL DIRECTIONS
- Contribute to a public dialogue
- Relative or responsive to social and physical environment
- Pieces are not necessarily architectural built form however create a spatial experience
- Radical insertions into environments of the familiar
- Inter disciplinary
- Identify borders and elasticise them, push them
- Spatially seductive, socially productive
Did Einstein invent or discover the laws of physics? His laws aren’t the final answer.
