Questioning the Everyday

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Whose everyday?

where? Who? What is the everyday? Why do we need to study the everyday?

What does public mean?

How does one move in public

Walking
Do these ways of walking have any meaning, or is it
just random or perfunctory?
Is there a different way of walking in public?
What are the factors that affect walking pace,
posture, style (eg walking quickly, shuffling, strolling,
striding purposefully)?

Walking in public

space constraints and

boundaries(steps, balustrades, walls,
terrain),

walking in groups or alone,

purpose (walking to class, dorm, cafe,

etc)

Mood

clothing, gender, profession, etc

True self? Unguarded moments? when you took their photos?

Defining/questioning the Everyday?

Defining and Exploring Art?

Who?

Why?

Ask Questions
Nothing is self-evident

Wher
e

How

is the
every
day

What is the everyday?

Whose everyday?

Lefebvre: what is left over after

distinct, superior, specialized
activities have been singled out
Freud: the realm of the conscious vis
the previously hidden (unconscious,
traumatic memory)
Marx: ideology as illusion

Cultural Studies (De Certeau):

subcultural resistance
Foucault: repetitive practices that
instill a sense of disciplinary self and
operationalized through institutional
arrangements

anthropology

General
Foucault, Marx
Structure

Particular

Agency

Institutions/Discourse

Power

Macro

psychoanalysis

Experience/feelin
gs
subculture

Resistance

Microanalysis

Intractable, not open to

direct observation:

Form or grammar

WHAT DO YOU SEE?

Front
picture

Back

writing

Blurring of Genre

Define Car

A car is a wingless aircraft that

crawls along the ground

Would suffice and manufacture 7

cakes of toilet soap

Enough iron to make a medium

sized nail

Sugar to sweeten a cup of coffee

Phosphorus would provide 2, 200

matches

Magnesium would furnish the light

needed to take a photograph

Sugar

Fat
7

Phosphorus

2,200

Iron

Magnesium

Unusable amount of
potassium and sulfur

Viktor Shklovsky
declared, "The
technique of art is
to make objects
'unfamiliar' . . .
to increase the
difficulty and
length of perception
because the process
of perception is an
aesthetic end in
itself and must be
prolonged.

Break of Day, Hernando R. Ocampo

1948, Oil on Canvas

What is real?

Magritte
The Human
Condition

Higher Order Thinking

Through Art

beyond common sense

making sense

sensing

Blooms Taxonomy

Creativity is not a skill but the highest

form of thinking, knowing learning

Creativity questions and generates new

ideas and ways of looking, e.g. the
everyday

Creativity is not the monopoly of artists

Creativity manifests in all forms of art

Creativity and art make the everyday

strange;gives form to the everyday

Thank you
AS2/Datuin/Term1/2015-2016