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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32111223525073929772017-06-23T15:30:48.655+02:00Curatorial Mutinyper huttnerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-48701305511960567252017-03-16T16:55:00.001+01:002017-03-16T16:55:19.224+01:00Local Minima dates announced

- An interdisciplinary journey in and around Stockholm/Huddinge on May 20, 2017.

 This is a unique invitation to a magical and rare event. You are welcome to join an international group of artists and researchers as they explore the mathematical and psychological concept of Local Minima. The exploration takes the shape of a bus tour through off-sites of Flemingsberg and Huddinge, south of Stockholm. It is part research, part game, part performance that will take you to unfamiliar locations and to discover unknown places.

 Local Minima includes contributions by Predrag Petrovic, Alicja Rogalska, Fabien Guillermont, Per Huttner, Mounira al Solh and more to be announced. The participants will meet you when you arrive at the journey's destination and you will have the opportunity to discuss your experiences with them and your fellow travellers.

 When: 20 May; 13.00-18.00 (approximate times)
Where: Pick up and drop off in central Stockholm . The tour will go to Flemingsberg and to Fullersta Gård in central Huddinge (Fullersta Gårdsväg 18). Details TBA.
How: Everyone is invited to join and it is free of charge. Further details will be announced. You can book your seat on the bus or ask questions by contacting Susanne Ewerlöf at Fullersta Gård: susanne.ewerlof (at) gmail.com

 The project is a collaboration with Karolinska institutet, Fullersta Gård and supported by Kulturbryggan.
Vision Forumhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-71157746291515997782017-02-16T16:53:00.000+01:002017-03-16T16:53:26.764+01:00RtDB at Stockoholms University

 Vision Forum is proud to announce Riding the Donkey Backward's participation in Global Media Café: A Second Home: Mediating Borders and Hospitality – A symposium bringing together academic and artistic perspectives on refugees, migration and citizenship' The event, which includes four sessions and round-table discussions, starts at 9:00 am and ends at 5:30 pm, followed by a mingle.

 The event is hosted by The Department of Media Studies, and funded by the Leading Research Environment: Global Media Studies and the Politics of Mediated Communication.
 PANELS, ROUNDTABLES, PRESENTATIONS include

Fataneh Farahadi, Jonathan Corpus Ong, Christian Christensen, Rebecca Bengtsson, Anna Roosvall, Tomáš Rafa, Florencia Enghel, Temi Odumosu, Erik Berggren, Kosta Ekonomou, Sebastian Dahlqvist and UNICORN, Abir Boukhari, Macarena Dusant, Jon Brunberg, Anusha Caroline Andersson Aca, Per Hüttner and Jasper de Rycker and other artists.
 The event is free of charge and open for students and the general public. More info here and here.

Vision Forumhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-30341098427219595772017-01-12T16:47:00.000+01:002017-03-16T16:49:46.799+01:00EEGsynth and Brain Control Club at ICM in Paris

Stephen Whitmarsh will make a demonstration of the EEGsynth and present the work with the Brain Control Club for the National research and development group toward Brain–Computer Interfacing Kick-off meeting of the CORTICO association on Tuesday, january 24. The ICM Auditorium (ICM – Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière; 47, bd de l'hôpital, 75013 PARIS – France). The presentation is open to the public and free of charge. There will be presentations on 17 other BCI (Brain computer interface) projects.

Vision Forumhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-74035341542023186002016-11-07T13:47:00.000+01:002016-11-07T13:49:05.191+01:00New Collaborations in Paris

After the successful launch of the Brain Control Club in October, Curatorial Mutiny and its partners now develop a collaboration with École Normale Superieur in Paris. We have started recording Per Huttner's brainwaves under hypnosis together with hypnotist and neuroscientist Hernan Anllo. The signals will first be treated by his colleague Stephen Whitmarsh using the EEGsynth and they will be used as a starting point for a musical composition by Jean-Louis Huhta. This recording will be the A-side of a 7″ single that 1+1=3 will release in 2017. For the B-side, Huttner will listen to the recording, again under hypnosis, this second recording will be treated by Whitmarsh and they will be used for a second musical composition by Huhta.
Vision Forumhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-19737964292104585712016-10-25T17:49:00.002+02:002016-11-07T13:51:25.621+01:00Riding the Donkey Backwards (RtDB) event at Fullersta Gård

Curatorial Mutiny is proud to announce a Riding the Donkey Backwards (RtDB) event at Fullersta Gård in Stockholm November 12 at 4pm. Free entrance.

 In a world where the difference between the rich and the poor, the beautiful and the ugly, the old and the young is getting increasingly bigger; some things remain constant. The ground beneath our feet, the sky above our heads, our mortality and our ability to laugh at it all.

 The members of Riding the Donkey Backwards know less about the sky and the ground and than your average weather man and your favourite pin-up geologist, still they share a passion for our collective ability to laugh at our own suffering and they work hard at getting an unofficial PhD in this oldest, most enjoyable and least academically appreciated science – that of laughing together.

 At Fullersta Gård the group will present some of the outcomes of the their laughable science. To prove their ignorance about the true nature of state of affairs, they will also offer a workshop for free that intelligent people pay good money to attend. Not only that, but these half-wits assure you that your needs will be met (whatever these might be?). So prove that there is a cheap-skate in your soul and come join us for some laughter that you will choke on.

 Come and meet the traumatized and potentially funny from Sweden, Egypt, Afghanistan, Syria who hold passports from such unlikely places as Belgium. Hear about some of the intelligent people that they have met along their travels. Experience how, in spite of these peoples' intellectual capabilities, our friends were still able to pass border after border.

 The presentations are held in broken English and pigeon English. (We can there not guarantee that language teachers' needs are met.)

 Participants: Morteza Azizi, Dee Doaa Helmi, Dolphins Inc. Fabien Guillermont and many more.

 The project is supported by the City of Stockholm.
Vision Forumhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-62318370244860209562016-10-25T17:44:00.001+02:002016-11-07T13:52:36.736+01:00"What is Habit?" returns to Stockholm October 21-23

Most of us will agree that some habits are productive while others can be detrimental to our well-being in a longer perspective. So what are habits? Why do different disciplines have such different outlooks on what habits are? During the meeting, the group continues reflect on human habits and how they are seen in art, law and neuroscience.
- Are habits useful for artists? Or is it habit breaking that constitutes creativity?
- The law stipulates that we are equal in its eyes – but is it really true that a person's character, habits and social statue does not influence the outcome of a trial? Can we make a distinction between character and habits?
- Neuroscience means that the brain's established neural pathways create habit. At the same time psychology suggests that certain substances in the brain controls addiction and other negative behaviours. But in the end no one knows for certainty how our habits are created and maintained.

How can dialogues between neuroscience, psychiatry, art and law together create a better understanding of human habits? Vision Forum and Curatorial Mutiny bring together practitioners from Sweden, France and Poland together to discuss these issues in Stckholm October 21-23.

The goal of the meeting is to develop the work with publication and to develop a concept for a performative walk for Huddinge in spring 2017.

Participants: Mounira al Solh, Susanne Ewerlöf, Fabien Guillermont, Per Huttner, Predrag Petrovic, Alicja Rogolska and with advice from Johan Carlsson.

The project is created in dialogue with Fullersta Gård and supported by Kulturbryggan.

Vision Forumhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-85030231637373682992016-09-26T12:00:00.001+02:002016-09-26T12:00:59.453+02:00The Sound of Brainwaves – A presentation of the EEGsynth

EMS, Stockholm, October 7 at 6pm

Over the last two years, Jean-Louis Huhta, Per Hüttner and Stephen Whitmarsh (collectively : 1+1=3) have been researching the parallels between brain analysis and sound synthesis, as well as the potential of brain-controlled synthesizers in music and artistic performance. They developed their own real-time brain-controlled synthesizer they call the EEGsynth. The project remains completely open-source, which means that anyone interested in exploring the relationship between the brain and sound performance can use it and contribute to its development.

The idea of controlling music or musical equipment using EEG is certainly not new and has been around since the 60s. However, science and technology have advanced greatly since then, allowing a much broader participation in experimentation with brain measurements and sound synthesis. What is possible now? What could the future offer in this exciting field?

At EMS you will find out more about ideas and technology in the field. You will hear about how 1+1=3, in their next project will draw inspiration from Iannis Xenakis, who radically challenged ideas about music by letting his compositions be controlled according to the rules of stochastics (degrees of randomness). With the emerging possibilities of neuroscience controlling sound and composition, Xenakis ideas will be rediscovered in a new and stimulating manner. With the EEGsynth project the developers invite you to explore these questions and also to connect, to experiment, to learn, and to collectively push the boundaries of what is possible.

On October 7, you are invited you to a unique opportunity to hear about how the EEGsynth has been developed, how it works, and how you can become part of its future development. Jean-Louis, Per and Stephen will present their experiences of working around the globe (Brazil, the US, France, Germany and Greece) and will give a live demonstration.
Let's explore the future of music together!
Welcome!

1+1=3 and the EEGsynth is supported by Innovativ kultur, Statens kulturråd, Konstnärsnämnden and Stockholm stad.
Vision Forumhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-84439479684717547302016-08-24T16:08:00.002+02:002016-09-01T16:32:33.929+02:00Good News for Space Writing and OuUnPo

Curatorial Mutiny is proud to announce that Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse supports our project Space Writing which is an exchange with artists and architects in Mexico City as well as the work with developing the OuUnPo publication!

Space Writing is a project reflects on the philosophical role that the map has played in the shaping of Western societies. Space writing opens dialogues between architecture, philosophy, design and contemporary art in order to stimulate conversations between professionals in Sweden and Mexico. The project will be active between autumn 2016 and summer 2018 and will lead to a series of public events in Mexico and Sweden.

Space Writing brings together the architectural platform LIGA in Mexico City with the Swedish research vehicle Curatorial Mutiny. The project takes its starting point in Geografia. Un'Introduzione ai Modelli del Mondo, 2003, ('Geography. An Introduction to the World's Models') by Italian geographer and philosopher of space Franco Farinelli, which tells the story of one of the most powerful and enduring forms of translation in history - that of the cartographic representation of the world.

OuUnPo is a network of (mostly) European artists, curators and researchers and the support will be used to bring us together to develop a publication on the project "Catastrophe and Heritage" that the group carried out in Sweden, Lebanon, Japan, Brazil and Italy.
Vision Forumhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-67857475113796678052016-08-22T16:31:00.000+02:002016-08-24T16:33:38.285+02:00More Voices of Culture

Curatorial Mutiny are preparing to return to Brussels for the second meeting of Voices of Culture and the structured dialogue with the European Union. We have been invited to discuss how migrants can be included in culture and through that the general political dialogue in Europe about access to culture and other fields of knowledge. Participants from Riding the Donkey Backwards will participate in the meeting in September.
Vision Forumhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-23491707200555007962016-05-17T11:49:00.003+02:002016-08-24T15:57:15.009+02:00"What is Habit?" in Stockholm May 27-29

Many neuroscientists, artists and lawyers will agree that there are good and bad habits. But why do the different disciplines have such different outlooks on habit?

- Are habits useful for artists? Or is habit breaking which constitutes creativity?
- The law stipulates that we are equal in its eyes – but is it really true that a person's character, habits and social statue does not influence the outcome of a trial? Can we make a distinction between character and habits?
- Neuroscience means that the brain's established neural pathways create habit. At the same time psychology suggests that certain substances in the brain controls addiction and other negative behaviours. But in the end no one knows for certainty how our habits are created and maintained.

How can dialogues between neuroscience, psychiatry, art and law together create a better understanding of human habits? Vision Forum and Curatorial Mutiny bring together practitioners from Sweden, France and Poland together to discuss these issues in Stckholm May 27-29. The goal of the meeting is to create a publication and develop a concept for a series of exhibitions in unexpected places.
The project is supported by Kulturbryggan.
Vision Forumhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-31750006345615649802016-05-12T09:32:00.000+02:002016-05-12T09:32:17.978+02:001+1=3 in San Diego, Los Angeles and Tucson

 Curatorial Mutiny and Vision Forum are proud to announce the first public presentations of the EEGsynth, a tool that has been developed by musicians, artists and neuroscientists in Sweden, France and the Netherlands. The EEGsynth will be used in artistic performances and to create new research questions for neuroscience. The group that has developed the EEGsynth will do a residency at A Ship in the Woods to create performances taking their starting point in the work of Samuel Beckett. They will also present the work at Sanford Consortium in San Diego. The trio will travel to Los Angeles and make a performance at 5 Car Garage with artist and hypnotist Marco Lutyens. The tour will be rounded off with two performances at the The Science of Consciousness Conference in Tucson in Arizona. You will find documentation of the tour here.

 The project is supported by Innovativ kultur, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee and the Swedish Arts Council.

Vision Forumhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-67084662314414405472016-04-07T13:20:00.002+02:002016-05-12T09:27:36.092+02:00CM invited by European Union

Curatorial Mutiny and Vision Forum are proud to announce that we have been invited by Voices of Culture to be a part of their structured dialogue with the European Union in Brussels. We have been invited to discuss how migrants can be included in culture and through that the general political dialogue in Europe about access to culture and other fields of knowledge. Participants in Riding the Donkey Backwards and Tomorrow's Art Audiences will participate in one meeting in June and another in September.

Vision Forumhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-4154936118053273782016-03-17T10:11:00.000+01:002016-04-07T13:19:08.340+02:00Riding the Donkey Backwards in Antwerp

Riding the Donkey Backwards is organised by Curatorial Mutiny and Vision Forum and brings together a group of people with different backgrounds who wants to grow together with you. Together RtDB compile stories that are funny or sad; private or universal. The group's third meeting will be held in Antwerp on March 20, 2016.

To read others' stories or add your own, visit us RtDB on Facebook.
Vision Forumhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-28032874853090226712016-02-24T00:31:00.000+01:002016-03-17T00:39:42.968+01:00EEG-Synth at BrainHack in Paris

Some of the neuroscientists and artists working with the EEG-Synth will be present their work at BrainHack in Paris February 24-26. The group will introduce work carried out with real-time EEG, music, dance and art over the last year and team up with other specialists in the field to develop the software. More info here.

Vision Forumhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-24117662631686663772016-01-15T00:29:00.000+01:002016-03-17T00:29:21.737+01:00OuUnPo in Naples

Members of OuUnPo and the local art scene in Naples met January 20-24 to develop the work on a catalogue for Catastrophe and Heritage and to discuss plans for a potential session in the city. OuUnPonians Samon Takahashi and Claudia Squitieri also made a custom-built performance for Domenico Menillo's wunder_littertur_kammer at Museo Nitsch.

Vision Forumhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-77780915826510213062015-11-10T17:06:00.002+01:002015-11-10T17:06:16.109+01:00More Good News

Curatorial Mutiny is pleased to announce that Kulturbryggan is supporting the project "What is Habit" that brings together artists, with neuroscientists and lawyers to develop a deeper understanding of what habit signifies in the three disciplines.

Many neuroscientists, artists and lawyers will agree that there are good and bad habit. But why do the different disciplines have such different outlooks on habit?

 - Are habits useful for artists? Or is habit breaking which constitutes creativity? What is the relation between creation and destruction?
 - The law stipulates that we are equal in its eyes – but is it really true that a person's character, habits and social statue does not influence the outcome of a trial? Can we make a distinction between character and habits?
- Neuroscience means that the brain's established neural pathways create habit. At the same time psychology suggests that certain substances in the brain controls addiction and other negative behaviours. But in the end no one knows for certainty how our habits are created and maintained.

 How can dialogues between neuroscience, psychiatry, art and law together create a better understanding of our habits?"

Vision Forumhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-62297053993025955072015-10-19T21:28:00.001+02:002015-11-10T17:01:44.920+01:00Good News!!!

Curatorial Mutiny is pleased to announce that Stockholm kulturförvaltning is supporting the project Riding the Donkey backwards that we develop with partners in Belgium and France. The project aims to offer social support for migrants so that they can develop a more meaningful existence in their new country.

"The best comedians base their jokes on their own problems, weaknesses and traumatic experiences. But humor must touch something universal and fundamentally human to communicate with its audience. A comedian must go beyond simple self-expression. Artists know this process very well and can offer unique expertise how to turn individual experiences into something global. By bringing together migrants, performance artists and teachers who have extensive experience working with refugees, we create an exciting new dynamic."

More information here.

Vision Forumhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-41625061001349953152015-10-01T23:36:00.000+02:002016-03-17T23:37:10.273+01:00Unfold

UNFOLDING MOVING THINKING – at the Stedelijk Museum Library

A Mind Gym Evening at the Stedelijk Museum Library

15 OCTOBER 2015, 6.30 pm

UNFOLDING MOVING THINKING is a cross-reading exercise hosted by Mariana Lanari and Sara Giannini aiming at the impossible meeting between the digital folder and the bookshelf.

The evening is the official launch of the online project Unfold and is the first of a series of events organized in the context of Moving Thinking, a 3 month performance by Mariana Lanari at the Stedelijk Museum Library. Both initiatives inhabit writing, reading and their deputy space, the library.
 Prepare to open books, wander through words, unpack texts, voice images, follow coincidences, and mirror games.
 Free entry!

Vision Forumhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-53221107126633393092015-09-29T17:16:00.002+02:002015-10-19T21:23:26.079+02:00Stephen Whitmarsh at Royal Institute of Art Stockholm

In connection with the workshop with Antoine Catala, Stephen Whitmarsh from the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet will give a talk Friday 25th of October, 16.00 in Muralen at the Royal Institute of Art. Stephen is one of the co-inventors of the BrainSynth and researched, among other topics the neuroscience of meditation and he works with artists on advanced brainwave interaction projects. He is also a member of OuUnPo. For more info contact Peter Geschwind at Professor of Fine Arts KKH.

Vision Forumhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-85027065510592283942015-09-10T17:19:00.000+02:002016-03-17T23:33:24.089+01:00Lunchtime session at Hallwylska: Dream of the Palace – Ö – OuUnPo

Welcome to the Hallwyl Museum on September 15 for a satellite event of the XIV OuUnPo Session – a lunchtime session with a gesamtkunstwerk created by Henrik Sputnes and Vilma Luostarinen in collaboration with artists Felicia Atkinson and Rasmus Persson + release of the publication Ö.Named after a 13th century painting by Giotto, Dream of the Palace is an obscure place of lost memories, an environment which reflects the mental processes of remembrance and forgetting – a composition of light, sound, scent and objects. In the centre is the sound sculpture APOEMAS by French artist Felicia Atkinson, an abstract and ambient collage of sound fragments accompanied by a light installation by Rasmus Persson.

The experience will also include the launch of the publication "Ö – A Möbius Trip", the exploration of a mysterious island in the Stockholm archipelago by a group of international artists. The expedition leaders, Per Hüttner and Isabel Löfgren, will lead you into mazes where the mystery of islands and fantastical thinking allow you to encounter the unfamiliar in an alternative and expanded universe. Participating artists are: Cecilia Ahlqvist, Valerio del Baglivo, Andrea Hvistendahl, Marcia Moraes, Lillevan, Egill Saebjörnsson, Camila Sposati, Samon Takahashi, and special appearances by Atle Baekken, Mats Hjelm, Jean-Louis Huhta and Emilia Rota.

Dream of the Palace is a satellite of the previous session that OuUnPo held in last February in Stockholm. The theme revolved around the state of fugue; a dissociative amnesia in which the patient wanders into a temporary new identity.

OuUnPo is an international artist and research group and is supported by Curatorial Mutiny. More information about OuUnPo and the previous session can be found on ouunpo.com.

The event is organised by Naïvité, a curatorial duo and a platform for contemporary art and experiences. Their work is characterised by research, narratives and the creation of collaborative gesamtkunstwerk. Henrik Sputnes is a curator and project manager based in Gothenburg and Vilma Luostarinen is a London-based curator. In collaboration with Hallwylska museet and with support from Stockholms Stad. Special thanks to Lisa Sputnes Mouwitz, Ari Luostarinen and Carima Neusser. Photos by Ari Luostarinen
Vision Forumhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-38626501577817989052015-07-28T22:54:00.006+02:002015-08-09T22:24:54.887+02:001+1=3, BrainSynth workshop, Athens 19-24 August, 2015

With: Jean-Louis Huhta, Stephen Whitmarsh and Per Hüttner

Intro
The BrainSynth will allow anyone to use their own muscles activity, eye-movements, heart beat and brain activity to control music-synthesizer equipment in real-time. The interface is being developed as an instrument for both artistic and scientific exploration, research and expression. The construction of the BrainSynth is done with affordable off-the-shelf components and the development will be done in according to open source and open hardware principles. (More technical details here.)

August 19
- Jean-Louis and Stephen arrive at midnight. Nocturnal swim and discussions about the individual work carried out in preparation for the workshop and what is expected of the days to come and how we can best reach these goals.

August 20
- Breakfast meeting and planning of the day ahead. Stephen talks about the workshop he organised in Frankfurt and Champagne with German neuroscientists. Special attention is given to how he used synthesizers, the BrainSynth and Per's work. He also goes through some basic principles of neuroscience, EEG, MEG and the congruence between how the brain and music works. Per talks about his reading of Deleuze and Guattari which leads to discussions about deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation and how the concepts relates to music, neuroscience and the project.
- Individual work with developing and fine-tuning the BrainSynth. Further research on deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation.

- Discussions on the proposed public outputs: events in Munich, Besançon, Berlin, Stockholm along with reflections on the future publication/CD. After long discussions it was decided that the project's focus will primarily be on workshops for and with neuroscientists, artists and musicians. Workshops and their public presentations will allow the ambiguity of working in a grey-zone between the three disciplines will offer interesting outputs that will allow the participants and audience to reflect on deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation in the respective fields.

- Discussions about the possibility of the development of a special BrainSynth for children and what changes, simplifications and tools would be needed for this.

- First practical test run of BrainSynth. Per's arm was equipped with electrodes and that were connected to the BrainSynth which was connected to Jean-Louis's modular synthesizer. Stephen continued fine tuning and calibrating of the BrainSynth to get an adequate range in the signal and how this can become automated (to meet the difference in EEG signals in different individuals and body parts.) Together we looked at problem solving in regards to MIDI signals and CV/gate.
- Jam-session with 2 modular synthesizers and electric guitar using the BrainSynth (arm.)

August 21
- Breakfast meeting and planning of the day ahead. Together we look at scenes from Adam Curtis's "Bitter Lake" and discuss psychiatry, psychoanalysis with focus on symptoms, treatment and drugs. Based on yesterday experience, Stephen explains software development and how this is used for tuning and calibrating of the BrainSynth to get an adequate range of MIDI signals and CV/gate from EEG. Discussions on voluntary movements (hand) and involuntary movement (heart/brain) and how degrees of this will influence the use of the BrainSynth.

- Individual work with the BrainSynth and formulation of texts for upcoming events and funding applications.
- Second practical test run of BrainSynth. Per's forehead and heart is equipped with EEG and the BrainSynth was connected to Jean-Louis and Stephen's modular synthesizers. The facial electrode was moved to Per's arm. Fine-tuning and calibrating of the BrainSynth's software to get an adequate range.
- Jam-session with 2 modular synthesizers and electric guitar using the BrainSynth (face, arm and heartbeat) and feedback box.

August 22
- Breakfast meeting and planning of the day ahead. Discussions about how the future workshops are going to function. It is decided that the workshop(s) will focus on creating a sonic Brain that will be made up by four parts. Each part will investigate functions of the brain: action, memory, attention, perception. A group will be formed around the four aspects. Each group includes musicians, artists and neuroscientists who work together and will be given a modular synthesizer to explore their aspect of the brain.

We therefore need to build four modular synthesizers and we discuss at length how the costs for this will be covered. We also decide that the event in Munich is going to be simpler, not workshop-based and include performative talks by Per and Stephen; a jam session with the BrainSynth and a concert by Dungeon Acid.

- Individual work with the BrainSynth and formulation of texts for upcoming events and funding applications.
- Dinner in Athens and meeting with Panos IC and other representatives from the local music scene.
August 23
- Breakfast meeting and planning of the day ahead. Stephen goes through the programming he has made during workshop and what challenges lie ahead. He elaborates on how the time windows in the real-time EEG affect the outputs. We decide that there will be separate patches for muscles, eye-movement, heart and brain.

Jean-Louis and Per express a desire to develop instruments in a similar way with what they did in Mexico in 2014. Arguing that this would add a deeper understanding of the BrainSynth. Stephen is positive to this and it is discussed how these can be created and used in Munich and later. We discuss, with the starting point in Buszáki, how oscillations can be understood in neuroscience, music and general philosophy. For instance how we go from an individual neurons to brain waves.

-Lunch with Greek Anthropologist Leonidas Economou.

- Jam-session with 2 modular synthesizers and electric guitar using the BrainSynth (arm, heartbeat and brain) and feedback box.

August 24
- Breakfast meeting, summery and recap of the day. Discussions about what we have learned, developed: weak points and strong assets. Discussions about what the next steps will be. There was a consensus that we should focus on how oscillations can be understood in neuroscience, music and general philosophy and that Jean-Louis and Per need to develop the artistic potential of the BrainSynth.

- Jean-Louis leaves
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August 25, 26 – Post Workshop
Stephen and Per continue to discuss the topics and reading of Buszáki. Discussions incorporate a broader range and focus on how oscillations exist in all known dimensions – from the quantum realm to the astrological. Oscillations offer a starting point for making sense of the chaotic world around us that incorporates time and temporality implicitly. Discussions also include how reterritorialsation is a recurring historically and how this can be incorporated into the project

We also discuss that possibility of not doing a BrainSynth event in Munich, but focus on doing something at Club Mesmer in October. Stephen and Per depart.

Literature:
Rhythms of the Brain – Györgi Buszáki
A Thousand Plateaus – Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Gödel, Escher, Bach – Douglas Hofstadter
The End of Certainty – Ilya Prigogine
Bitter Lake – Adam Curtis

Vision Forumhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-64301969088295972602015-07-16T22:27:00.000+02:002015-08-09T22:27:30.557+02:00Curatorial Mutiny in collaboration with Wellcome Collection in London

Curatorial Mutiny is proud to announce its first collaboration with the Wellcome Collection in London. The project is initiated by Per Hüttner and uses the logic of art to discuss issues that are central in the human body and medical science.

The project takes its starting point in the work of Aristotle, one of the most well-known and oldest of the names on the Wellcome Reading Room's frieze. The event will unfold during an afternoon and will unlock hidden potential of the space and inspire the audience to find new ways of thinking and interacting. The project will activate all the 10 stations (face, breath, mind etc.). It will start in 'travel' and move around the room. Some of the interventions will be on-going throughout the afternoon while others might last only a few seconds or simply be a poem posted on a wall. Some will be clearly announced and visible, while others are made to remain virtually invisible. The project will focus on Aristotle's dichotomy of potentiality/actuality. It is a central aspect to his thinking and also one of the most debated. Something's potentiality is its possibility to become something else. A brick can be used to build a house, but it can also be thrown through a window. Once the brick has reached its designation (forming a wall or having broken a window) it assumes its actuality. Aristotle takes it further:

• We speak of an entity being a "seeing" thing whether it is currently seeing or just able to see.
• We speak of someone having understanding, whether they are using that understanding or not.
• We speak of corn existing in a field even when it is not yet ripe.
• People sometimes speak of a figure being already present in a rock which could be sculpted to represent that figure.

The scope and implications of this dichotomy are immense. How something can come from nothing, is not only a question for art and creativity – but is also central for biology as well as virtually all the other sciences. It is therefore important to narrow the questions down and at the same time focus on issues that resonate in the context of the Reading Room and corresponds to its concerns.

Vision Forumhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-74689930283614651312015-07-15T23:23:00.000+02:002015-10-02T23:31:17.378+02:00The Sound of No Rain

- an interdisciplinary sound exchange between Sweden and Cabo Verde 2015-16.

Intro
Culture is produced through chance encounters between different elements. It is a fluid process permanently in motion, uncontrolled and without boundaries. Arguably, music (in all its forms) operates in more intuitive frameworks than other cultural expressions also adapting faster to changing contexts. Aural culture can therefore be thought of and used as a mapping tool for identity related dynamics. What happens when two cultures are put in dialogue? What kind of continuities and ruptures arise from it? The Sound Of No Rain proposes an exchange between Cape Verde and Sweden, exploring music as a research tool that uncovers the social, economical and political trajectories of the territories, standing at the forefront of cultural development and production.

Context
Cabo Verde is a unique place in the world because:

- it was uninhabited until the late 15th century. Its current population is of mixed ethnicity, as a result of inward and outward migrations from and to Europe, Africa and Latin America also echoing its geographical location, midway from Europe and South America, simultaneously integrated and isolated from mainland African continent.
- it has a unique musical history and music scene, which is the strongest cultural expression of the country, responding and echoing its particular geographical and political histories. Several genres have been created in the archipelago through local mixing and appropriation of different influences. Morna, Funaná, Funacola, Coladeira, and Batuque are examples of the new genres produced in the archipelago, which references range from African percussion and singing, to Argentinian Tango or Portuguese Fado.
- The several main figures of Cape Verdian music are woman. From classic diva Cesária Évora to contemporary singers such as Mayra Andrade, the presence of feminine agency is deeply felt in the music scene of the archipelago, in contrast with other African and international dynamics where men are usually given the front role.

Sweden has a strong music scene and long standing migratory dynamics:
- during the 19th century due to harsh living conditions it experienced a emigration wave particularly directed to the USA whereas from the mid 20th century to today it has been a constant haven for asylum seekers having also received important groups of migrant workers
- from the 1960s to today Sweden's music scene has been extremely successful, creating not only international agents but at the same time developing space for experimental practices while preserving folklore traditional languages

Problematic
How can music be though of as a territory where the particular histories of each territories have had deep impacts and therefore be used as a mapping tool to cultural change? What can be learned about how cultures, music and sounds develop and have developed in history when we special attention to geography, climate, politics and language? How do traditional and contemporary sound and music dialogue in different cultures? Both Sweden and Cabo Verde offer extreme examples in these respects. By bringing musicians and sound artists from both countries together offers tools to better understand how these expressions are shaped by history, mixing of traditions and politics and likewise how less visible aspects of historical dynamics and culture personifications and development might be more clearly identified and easily understood by listening to its sounds.

Methodology
The project is divided into three parts.
1. The project's organisers will go to Cabo Verde to meet partners and to do research in the end of 2015.
2. Swedish musicians and travel to Cabo Verde and make a tour of the islands, collaborating with local colleagues in early 2016.
3. Cape Verdian musicians and sound artists will come to Sweden to perform in Stockholm and Östergötland and participate in Vision Forums international meeting and meet colleagues from all over Europe in autumn 2016.

The tour will allow Swedish musicians and sound artists to work closely with local musicians and sound artists on different islands of the archipelago.

Outcomes
The project will lead to:
- A research period in Cabo Verde looking at the intersection between sound / music and local histories and identities
- A production workshop in Cabo Verde with local and Swedish artist who will collaborate together
- A public presentation of the project consisting of concerts, performances and talks by Cabo Verde and Sweden agents who will publicly present their collaborative production
- An online and print publication documenting the research and the project as well as including some essays by collaborators and other agents involved as well as aural elements of the project

The project will offer a better understanding of:
- how music can be used as a mapping tool in understanding the unfolding of historical and musical trends.
- how traditional and contemporary music remain in continuous dialogue.
- how small both isolated and connected musical communities can develop different expressions, how they communicate and foster variation.
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Marjolijn Dijkman and Per Hüttner take part in "Back To The Trees," an interdisciplinary and collective folly in the french forests. More info and travel descriptions here.
La Vieille-Loye is a commune in the Jura department in Franche-Comté in eastern France.
Demographics: At the census of 1999, the population was 345. The estimate for 2004 was 363. "Back To The Trees" will more than double the population.
Baraques du 14, Forêt de Chaux, La Vieille-Loye, Franche Comté
From 5pm to 2am , June 27
Vision Forumhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211122352507392977.post-53461317294872776732015-05-14T14:22:00.002+02:002015-06-30T19:28:12.695+02:00 Assured Stability in Shanghai

Curatorial mutiny presents a new project in China called "Assured Stability." When artist Li Xiaofei talks to industrial workers. They often express that there is an "assured stability." They mean that there is stable employment, medical care, pension - everything is secured. Their point of view might seem superficial at first glance, but behind this expression of a human desire we find a deeply rooted anxiety about how to survive.

"Assured Stability"— the clear and yet somewhat mundane words possess a sense of universality. We all understand and share the dream of tomorrow remaining bright and trouble free. Still, there is another side to the words that suggest that each individual only becomes a part of an economical system, a cog in a wheel of a seemingly meaningless giant machine of society. And that image can slowly eat its way into our consciousness like a virus. Maybe we find ourselves in a situation where everything has improved on the surface and yet our lives have become empty and meaningless?

Large parts of Chinese society have developed into a web of large factories of mass production in the recent decades of economical development. The artists in the exhibition Assured Stability offer different interpretations of what they can draw from this process. The artists who originate from Northern Europe live in countries with the most developed social and economical security on the planet. They have since long lived what Chinese workers call "guaranteed stability." The artists have expressed some difficulty in understanding the widespread and "simple aspirations." Still they use their artistic methods and experience to explore contemporary society. They try to make sense of a world in constant and violent flux and full of paradoxes—this is not only related to the demands of standard industrialized societies, but is also an expression of a kind of cruelty and beauty.

The works on display in the exhibition raise questions about the scenes of production as well as the relationship between the producers and society as a whole. They investigate states of consciousness; reflect on how human values inform how we experience the flow of time and of life. They question how ethics inform directly or indirectly relate to our world, to our own personal "assured stability."

Assured Stability forms a part of About Assembly Line which has been developed by Chinese artist Li Xiaofei and was on view during the 8th Berlin Biennale. LI has documented over a hundred large factories and medium- scale industrial units, particularly in China's Yangtze River Delta as well as in other parts of the world. His mise-en-scène deliberately merges artistic and documentary language, combining interview-style videos with stylized sequences revealing industrial processes and the daily operations of factories. In multichannel video installations and photographic works from the project such as A Foreign Boss (2010), A Packet of Salt (2013), A Printing Worker (2010), A Sales Manager (2012), and A Womens' Federation Director (2011), the artist stitches together a narrative from disparate protagonists. These "characters" reveal the fundamental connection between the routines of mechanized production, the translation of management theory into the disciplining of the labor force, and the commodities that are ultimately produced through this "optimization" of human capital. Assembly Line offers us a candid insight into contemporary production sites that largely remain sealed off from public view.

For Li Xiaofei, the assembly line represents a repetitive, identical, mechanical and even unemotional means of production, one which efficiently and rapidly expands the value of production to the utmost. Such repetition and sameness do not refer merely to machines but also include the workers living amid all this as well as the final products. The assembly lines in factories seem to protect a fundamental order of social systems on the surface through validating the means of production. Given this sense of order, what is unexpected is that he even senses a collective Romanticism. Order exists at once inside and outside their bodies while possessing a sense of reality beyond that of the everyday.

To this point, Assembly Line Project has dissociated from the original notion of "assembly line" in the factory and become a complex creation system with wider social significance. This project aim to establish a platform for scholars from various disciplines to study and explore the associations and extensions of "assembly line" in an open way and to seek wider cooperation with different artists, curators and critics during different stages.

Assured Stability—an exhibition part of the Assembly Line project

Private View: May 30, 2015, 3pm-7pm
Exhibition open to the public: May 30 - July 30, 2015, 10am-6pm.
Venue: V ART CENTER, No.50 Mo Gan Shan Rd, Shanghai.
Artists: Guo Qingling, Lise Yuen, Li Xiaofei and Per Hüttner
Art Director: Chao Jiaxing
Curator: Assembly Line Projects Studio
Organization: V ART CENTER, Fei Contemporary Art Center (FCAC)
Partners: The Consulate General of Norway in Shanghai, Curatorial Mutiny and Vision Forum
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A few weeks ago my mother dug a fern from her garden and potted it for me. I welcomed the gift as a daily reminder of new life, despite her skepticism about whether the fern would survive. True, I don't have a great track record when it comes to plant care and apparently ferns that grow up outdoors don't transition well to living indoors. (I don't know if this is true or if she was just making it up.) Besides all that, Ellie, my parents' three month old puppy, decided that parts of the newly potted plant would make an excellent pre-supper appetizer shortly before its trip to Hamilton. Suffice it to say, the plant showed up in need of some serious love.
Sometime last week I noticed the already beginning-to-be-neglected plant was looking, well, shabbier. One shoot had all but collapsed, the others were brown around the edges and looking tired and frazzled for the most part. I admit, I haven't been diligent with watering. I'm sure last week's plus thirty temperatures and lack of sunlight in my room were not helping.
And so began the intervention. This plant was not yet dead. Although well on its way to being nothing more than compost, there was still hope. I began dousing it daily with water, entirely unsure of whether I was helping or hindering. I've heard too much water can be a bad thing. Still, all my best intentions got side-tracked this week and yet again, the plant has not been watered for a few days.
Imagine my surprise tonight as I am cleaning off my desk and I notice two incredibly strong, healthy, tall new shoots bursting from the soil. New life juxtaposed against the dry, shriveled stems beside them. What joy. What hope.
I am like this fern.
Ahh, I have the beginnings of what feels like home.
Last summer, I reflected on what it meant to create home. What does it take for me to find my personal space welcoming, relaxing, peaceful, my own? It is incredible the difference I feel as I look around my bedroom tonight after a few hours of re-arranging furniture, putting up pictures and unpacking that one last suitcase. And although it's a work in progress, I can already feel myself relaxing. It's starting to feel like my space, instead of just the room I have been sleeping in.
So what is it that helps me create home? Yes, these are physical objects, but what I'm discovering as I look around my room is the non-physical attachment I have to each of these treasures. They are not worth much, combined they might fetch me a dollar or two at a garage sale, but these aren't objects I could ever sell.
They are the fern my mom dug from her garden and potted for me last weekend, the scrap of beautiful fabric Cara gave me last summer, the gift from my friends at Korban house, the piece of driftwood from my walk with Trevor at New River Beach, the rosary made by my Filipino host mother hung over the doorknob, photos of my east coast friends thumbtacked to the wall, the sailboat painting given to me by a friend at university, the ragged stuffed bear left behind by my oldest brother when he moved away for college and mine ever since, a rock from the shores of the St. Croix River, Sasha's old bandana, my grandparents' wedding photo, my great-grandmother's quilt.
I think what I'm realizing is that these objects, worthless as they may seem to the world, are priceless to me because of the expression of relationship they carry. Alone in my room, I need these reminders because without them I forget that although you are not here now, your influence in my life is no less significant.
The mystery is that somehow, although time and space may separate us, these objects remain symbols of our connection.
It's like Naomi once said, "you have an eternal piece of my soul." And perhaps I, yours.
confronting evil through love, not force
painting with all the colours, including dark colours
consolation, desolation
the river that carries me from one moment to another
the wildness of God
the (holy) danger of mystery
stumbling towards love
imagining (and re-imagining) freedom
intoxicating beauty
the spaces between you and i
I've lived in a lot of different rooms in the past few years. I recently informed my parents that I will probably be a vagabond until I'm at least thirty, and therefore need to keep storing my collection of books, musical instruments and childhood memorabilia at their house for awhile still. Sorry Mom, you can't turn my bedroom into a craft room just yet.
Six years ago, I left Oakville for the shores of Lake Huron. Okay, so it was a camp position (and I was still at my parents' most weekends) but my program staff cabin, shared with three other girls, became home for that summer.
Next came the various bedrooms I shared with five other girls through Katimavik. We lived south of Winnipeg in a tiny town, south of Montreal in a tiny town, and south of Fredericton just outside a tiny town, staying in each place for only three months.
I was back in Ontario for a summer and then moved into residence at St. Stephen's University. Throughout my four years there I moved from one room to another every semester, never staying in one place longer than four months. I went from being on campus to off campus to back on campus and off again. I lived with families, or I had roommates, or I shared a house with other students.
I graduated last April and spent the summer at L'arche Cape Breton. In September I moved back to Ontario and in with my best friend, Laura. I stayed with her for a whopping six months before moving in with Rachel and Brandon in March.
Why am I telling you all of this?
I've lived in a lot of rooms in a lot of houses. Seventeen different bedrooms in six years, to be exact.
I have taken something from the people I lived with in each place, and left something of myself behind.
With each move something ends and something new begins.
Tonight, I will fall asleep in a new bedroom, under a new roof, sharing a house with new people. In some ways, the process of beginning again gets easier each time. I learn what works well for me, settling in and feeling 'home'. I learn how to put down roots quickly and to develop family ties with the people who invite me in.
But there is still this part of me that longs for what is past, and hesitates briefly before moving forward. I still feel the ache of being uprooted from the soil, taken from one place and dropped into another.
I still feel the displacement of not knowing where to sit at the dinner table, or where to put my toothbrush, or where to leave my shoes.
It is okay, even healthy, to grieve the end of one thing at the beginning of something new. I give myself that space.
Tonight, I lay on a new bed, listening to the sounds of new traffic, feeling the breeze through a new window, watching the moon from a new angle.
For now, I am home. For now, I will put down roots.
I spent the past weekend at my parents' house. On Saturday night I was sitting in my old bedroom with my nine-soon-to-be-ten year old niece, Britney. Since it was the beginning of her March Break, we had been given permission to stay up as late as we wanted after the rest of the house went to sleep. I don't get to hang out with Britney too often, mostly because I've lived in New Brunswick for the last five years of my life, so this time was deeply cherished. I think it's good for girls to have someone they can hang out with away from their parents and other adults. I was so influenced by a few young adults I grew up around, and I still occasionally meet up for coffee with these role models.
But more than this, I think these times of hanging out with Britney are important because they do something for me. Yes, I am selfishly motivated. She brings fresh perspective to my life. Helps me remember to be child-like. To be giddy. To have fun. To be creative. She reminds me that I have something important to offer, that other people generally like spending time with me. And she reminds me how easily I can hurt others, that in all my relationships I need to be patient and nurturing, as best I can. I really like spending time with her. She's probably my favourite kid in the entire world.
Seeing as she is my favourite kid, it seemed fitting to pull a dusty copy of my favourite book off the shelf. If you've never read "Oh the Place You'll Go" by Dr. Seuss, you don't know what you're missing. If you have read it and you didn't love it, you should probably get your head checked. It really is my favourite book of all time.
And although I've read it a hundred times over, and at one point had most of it memorized, I sat on the bed on Saturday night reading aloud, surprised to see my own life unfolding on the pages. I've experienced the frustration and uselessness of the waiting place. I've faced the difficult task of unslumping myself after coming down from an unpleasant bump. I've raced across weirdish wild space. But I've also joined the high flyers who soar to high heights and found the bright places where boom bands are playing.
And I know Britney will too. I don't know if Britney realized it, but I couldn't have believed in her more deeply as I read those words that sum up all the potential she possesses.
Oh, the places you'll go. Kid, you'll move mountains.
When I was in grade eight, the rabbits at my school procreated. This event has had a profound impact on today, January 20, 2010.
See, I asked my parents if I could have one of the baby bunnies our science teacher was giving away to good homes. My mom thought our home was probably not a good home for a bunny. For one, we had a large German Shepard named Petra, who would probably have terrified the poor bunny to death. For another, my parents did not think being stuck with the responsibility of taking care of a rabbit when I hypothetically left for university four years later, would be their cup of tea.
But a pet, yes a pet, this was a good idea. We just needed to find the right one.
So I went through a few months of wanting nearly every pet imaginable. Fish, hamster, iguana, guinea pig, your typical standard pet shop critters. Of course, we already had a dog, so I knew that I should stay within my limits and ask for something caged – perhaps a canary, or a turtle.
After a few months of negotiations, much to my surprise, my mom suggested that a cat might be the right pet for us. A woman at her work was giving away kittens. A kitten! Yes, this was the perfect pet for a thirteen year old girl. A pet that required some responsibility on the part of her owner, yet was also independent enough to survive the decline in attentive care that inevitably settles in when a child owns an animal. And a pet that my parents would enjoy having around and caring for should I go far away to school, like New Brunswick, for example. Sadly, my grandmother's fear of cats and my allergy to them stood in the way.
Imagine a child's disappointment. When my mom told me that we could not, after all, get the kitten, I was heart broken. But then she offered the unimaginable. A trip to the humane society to look at a dog. To this day I still don't know how I got so lucky. I didn't even have to beg or plead or promise anything extraordinary. A dog was being offered to me.
The first dog we saw, Bandit, was beautiful. An Alaskan Malamute, he stood taller than my waist on all fours and had sad gray eyes like a husky's. He had the fluffiest, fullest coat on any dog I had ever seen. This dog was beauty and the beast in one. When we found out he had been seriously abused, and had behaviour problems that were more than my family could deal with, again I felt crushed.
But the staff knew of another dog, one that was beautiful and smart and great with kids. Her name was Xena and she hadn't been at the shelter for very long. She was a mutt, with German Shepard, Doberman and Husky in her mix – just like my mom's dog Petra. And they were right, Xena was beautiful. She played well with my brother and I, and other dogs. She had energy like crazy but could be obedient when there was something in it for her. She was curious and mischievous and could wiggle her way into anyone's heart. We had found the right pet.
So we brought Xena home with us on March Break in 1999, called her Xena-Sasha for a few days, and very quickly, Sasha became part of our family.
This morning, I watched as each of my family members said goodbye to Sasha. I carried her out of the van and up the steps to the vets office. I held her as she took her last few breaths. I cried into the fur of her neck, like I have on so many other occasions, as I tried to find the words to say my own goodbye.
All I could manage was "It's okay, rest now."
I love that dog. It's hard to believe she's gone.
I am from an old tire swing.
I am from a brick bungalow with a big backyard, a house with an old kitchen and a new deck. I am from the room decorated first with teddy bears, later with carousels and now with blue and white stripes. I am from the unfinished basement and the crawlspace in the attic. I am from the kitchen table and the big red couch and my great grandmother's piano and hot days on the cold steps of our front porch.
I am from my mother's forget-me-nots and chinese lanterns and bleeding hearts, from dandelions and wild violets, and the fragrance of lilacs and rose bushes. I am from the crab apple trees and the tall sturdy maple and the birch tree on our front lawn. I am from cold winter mornings on the frozen pond and stormy summer nights by the lake.
I am from tall grass and long summer days. From barbeques and fireworks and street parties and calling on friends. I am from soccer, and t-ball and ringette and hockey. I am from rollerblading and capture the flag, and pickle, and cops and robbers, and street hockey and the neighbour's swimming pool. Go for it and scrabble and chess and egyptian rap slap and skip-bo.
I am from garage sales and bike rides and gardening. I am from Saturday morning chores and family hikes on Sunday afternoons. From teaching old dogs new tricks. I am from Robert Munsch and Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein and Dennis Lee. I am from story-telling.
I am from mother daughter days and drives in the countryside and watching thunderstorms from my parents bed. I am from sunlight streaming through my bedroom window. I am from teasing and laughter and quick wit and taking apart old broken radios.
I am from family illness and skinned knees, broken wrists and chipped teeth.
I am from always believing there will be enough, always striving to give generously and always recognizing the importance of being together. I am from singing and dancing while we work.
I am from faith in God, because of or despite our present circumstances. From small miracles and a few big ones. And I am from endless questions and doubts and uncertainty and a reassurance that all of that is okay.
I am from Christmas Eve open house and New Year's Day at Grandma's and Easter hockey tournaments in Haliburton. From holiday baking and decorations and blue and red Christmas lights and picking out the perfect tree.
I am from the cottage on Redstone Lake. From swimming with my dogs and canoeing with my brothers and fishing and bear caves and moss. I am from our tent-trailer and sticky marshmallows and campfires and staying up late and board games and stories about when we were little.
I am from rum truffles and angel food cake and haystacks and shortbread, chicken divan and chilli and shepherd's pie and spanish rice, hot dogs and toasted tomato sandwiches and grilled cheese and KD.
I am from family photos on the top of the piano, pictures of kids I have yet to meet in the hallway, and artwork on the refrigerator door. I am from the games shelf and the craft shelf, the sewing room, the work room, the family room. The bookcases and the photo albums. I am from the dog kennel, the bath tub, the linen closet.
I am from Oakville, from Etobicoke and Collingwood, from Canada and Scotland and England and maybe Germany and other places I don't know. I am from Burtch and Hills, Sutherland and Barker.
I am from Daryl and Julie, Rob and Bryan.
Today I visited with my grandparents in order to say goodbye before I head off to New Brunswick again. My grandfather is in a nursing home now, so we went there first and after we visited him we took my grandma out for dinner. I find that every year I become more emotional after visiting with them, perhaps it's because I see my grandfather's life deterorating, and the impact that has on my grandmother. Perhaps it is because I regret not having loved them more when I was a child. Perhaps it is because I am thankful for the days I have spent with them over the past few summers.
On the drive home I was telling my mom how thankful I was that she volunteered me to do their housecleaning three summers ago. As much as I hated the actually cleaning at the time, I loved spending time with my grandfather in the garden and with my grandma watching British soaps. I know that never once that summer did the thought cross my mind that someday grandpa would end up in a home. I have worked at a nursing home and seen people living with loneliness and dementia, but somehow I thought my grandfather was above all that, stronger than those men and women. That summer that I cleaned their house was the last summer he spent at home. He still doesn't understand completely why he can't go home. Tonight when we were all leaving he asked my grandma why he couldn't come with us. And what he was supposed to do. "You stay here now, this is your room." "Oh, okay."
At dinner my grandmother began to cry, but being a strong-willed woman we all knew to keep quiet while she fought back the tears. Maybe that sounds insensitive on our part, but I know her and I know she would rather deal with her emotions in private rather than in front of all of us in a restaurant. Shortly after that I began to ask her questions I have never asked before. "When did you meet grandpa?" "How did grandpa propose?" She recently gave me two of her wedding photos, one which I have framed sitting on my desk. As she begins to sort out who will inherit what and so forth, these pictures are all I want. And her stories. These questions let her to reflect on her marriage and soon we were laughing at stories of my uncle wandering off to the ice cream stand when he was three, or my dad bringing all the neighbourhood kids through the house to see his new baby brother.
Anyways, it was a great night and I just wanted to write some thoughts down so I remember it.
Things I forgot I missed about my home:
– walking barefoot in the grass of my backyard and throwing tennis balls for my dog
– hearing the familiar song of birds who live in the trees nearby
– playing our old piano with no inhibitions, unafraid of being loud or making mistakes
– sitting on the porch playing my guitar as if its sound could echo through the whole world


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Millions complain of stress, pressure, worry, things of this nature. Some will advise you to take pharmaceuticals to "manage" stress – pills that alter brain chemistry, pills that require long lists of warnings and side effects, including agitation, hostility, suicidal and violent thoughts or actions. These are the psychoactive variety of drugs: antidepressants, amphetamine-like compounds, etc. Do we really want to go that route? Are there ways to alleviate stress that make us healthier and stronger – instead of numb, disassociated or cut off from reality? Fortunately, there are.
There are several ways people deal with stress. The first is an attempt to numb or medicate it through alcohol or other chemicals as mentioned above. The next method is to reduce one's sphere of influence, to cut oneself off from reaching further into life or society: the would-be entrepreneur who settles for a dull desk job because it is more "secure"; the potential artist who gives into the "constructive criticism" of others and "keeps his day job," never to pursue his art again. These first two don't offer much forward momentum in the game we call life. Is there a third alternative? Again, fortunately for us, the answer is yes:
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- Do you have a plan? Draw up your plan to get from point A to point B. Is it detailed? Does it really contain the steps to take you where you want to go? This could take some work, but it is a vital action.
- Remove distractions. You can be your own worst enemy by procrastinating, not following through on what you know is right, dishonesty with yourself and others. All these things can get in your road. Take steps to clear the path. No one is perfect, but you can get yourself going in the right direction.
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- Organize. Nothing can disperse your attention like disorganization. From your house to your office, is it set up for industrious activity? Do things have a place and when you're done with something, do you put it back where you got it? Set up your area so it calms your nerves instead of rattles them.
- Nutrition. Nothing depresses one quite like insufficient nutrition. Too many of us pick up our meals on the fly with little to no thought as to actual nutritional value. The result is a body that is agitated and essentially starving. Putting a little more work into it – eating whole or organic foods that contain real nutrients – adds up to more energy and confidence.
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- Exercise. Millions of us sit at a desk all day looking at a computer screen that is about two feet from our eyes. You've got get out every day – or at least every other day – and get your body moving. Failure to do so results in depressed mood and lack of verve for tackling life's problems, not to mention countless health issues.
- Expand your interests. There's nothing wrong with being good at one thing and specializing in that, but once you've got the above steps reasonably under control, why not try branching out? You could take that night class you've been putting off the last few years; learn to play the guitar (or banjo, or harmonica, or…); take up a martial art. All manner of avenues are open to you to elevate your confidence and competence. If your schedule is all booked up but you're having a good time, this is the kind of "stress" you want. Don't forget to have fun!
Those are a few suggestions for those seeking to reduce stress. It may be a slightly different view, but it's one that doesn't underestimate the power of the individual.
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