This is from an email from Amanda:
in terms of documentation, someone could walk around with dictaphone, making comments into it ("Captain's log, Stardate...") everywhere they go, as if it's really significant and worth recording, even though it's just doing your shopping.
And that got me going, here is my response:
Good idea about the dictaphone - easy too! It relates also to my archaeological/anthropological idea of documenting our everyday world as if it were an object of curiosity, as if we were aliens.
I thought of measuring things as well, you know how the old anthropologists used to measure everything, even people's heads! (I'm not suggesting we do that though).
I can imagine doing the anthrop doco thing and putting it all together into some kind of pseudo document or documentary as an art work in itself - e.g. repetitive measurements, depictions of "artefacts," (photographs and diagrams) all the recorded comments as per Amanda's idea, maybe depictions of people and how they move around the shopping centre, such as maps of movement, and maybe we could use it all as "evidence" for some kind of amazing conclusion about this society (did you see the doco on the Flores "hobbit" woman last night?)
What do you think of these ideas, everyone? At least some of it would be easy to do, we don't have to complete all ideas above, but we could do some of it and write up the possible outcomes or extensions.
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Hi Jill,
Caught the last 20mins of hobbit lady wow.wished i'd seen all of it.
bet the churches are nervous!!!!!!!!!!!!hee hee hee
Hi Joy, actually I didn't see that particular show about the Hobbit, but I have seen others. I have it taped, so will watch it when I can. What I find interesting about these kind of things is how they use the "evidence" to come to all kinds of conclusions about how people lived and even how they thought( not in the Hobbit case but in other excavations)-it's all about interpretation or translation (handy since it is part of our theme).
I like the idea of being pseudo archaeologists or anthropologists looking at the "phenomenon" of shopping centres and what people do there, translating things by looking at all kinds of possible interpretations of things like patterns on the floor, the layout, signs, how people are behaving, etc - what do you think?
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