TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

keskiviikko, maaliskuu 31, 2004

3:35 PM
Posted by jodi rose

At Muu gallery again. still, some more..... just been sitting out in the sunshine, letting the rays soak away all my low energy and tiredness. Will be even more relaxed after the sauna tonight, at Kallio.
On Monday we had the meeting with all locative media group at the officers bar on suommenlina island, a brief introduction from everyone on who they are and what they're doing here. Tuesday morning Sophea led us all on a sound walk of the railway station - my main memories are of the rhythmic machine noise in the escalators, combined with beeps and squeaks sounding like an urban music. Moved out to the island last night, which is fantastic. There's an old church on top of the hill, with a lighthouse and after the bar it was all foggy and mysterious. Last night had the pixelache warm up at restaurant via, great to catch up with some of the crew from stockholm, and keep building those relationships with the workshop participants. I've decided that this week is all about networking myself in various ways, through shared experience, conversation, all forms of connection.
This morning wandered down to the railway station and made a recording using binaural microphones (they are placed one in each ear like walkman headphones, and give a very particular spatial definition to the sound). The last part of it involved having a meandering poetic rave about my state of mind and being at that moment, sitting on platform 9 of Helsinki railway station. Feeling very emotionally sensitised, partly that thing of being in another place, my response is to become very open and porous; also meeting and interacting with so many different people, and not having had much time for reflection or solitary wandering. On the ferry this morning I sat up on the roof, very beautiful way to start the day and had the chance for slight mental realignment. Musing on connections and communication, watching all the people rushing past going someplace, wondering how do you engage with their stories, or even connect for a moment. Does it have to be scheduled, or timetabled or can you still make random spontaneous links? Sending out signals, how are they received and interpreted? I wish that we could have announcements for the subtle, non-verbal communication. Is there a problem with my signal to noise ratio? Am I simply reading into them the meaning that I want to find, is my ticket valid on this train? Have a pleasant journey.
Talking with Andrew in the gallery when I returned, he reminded me that part of the framework for this locative media is that we bring out physical bodies, and emotions and all the memories and experiences that filter out engagement with the place and interactions with other people.
Now there are presentations by mike pearson and angela piccini, and I just remembered I have to take a CD down to Kiasma for the exhibition/installation there.