System for Exchange

Project 3, Collaborative work

System for Exchange

1. Each participant agrees upon a safe location where the exchange will occur, and establish start and end dates between which the system will be manipulated
2. On their own time, each participant returns to the location and makes an arrangement of objects meant to embody a certain concept, making a note of how these objects embody this idea for comparison after the system has run its course
3. Once objects are added, they are free to be manipulated by any of the other participants - they can rearrange, add, or remove anything from the arrangement in pursuit of their own idea, but must consider every other participant’s objects and manipulations as part of their own interpretation
4. When the end date arrives, the participants make a note of the new form their idea has taken through the manipulation of their objects - they then meet again to compare their before and after notes, and discuss how their ideas developed as they were manipulated within the system

As objects are choses to perform the exchange. A choice was made to bring in an

old tea pot. Old chinese tea pots have the ability to record down time and usage and its

price and beauty grow with time and usage. It reminds me of the library, how through out

time, its beauty grew and it projects a louder voice of history and the times it had been

through.

Its interaction with the other objects is interesting, with no earlier context upon

which object is whose, my arrangements were done out of some sort of instinct. Guided by

pure feelings that maneuvered the objects around. The old tea pot is surrounded by new

objects. Knittings, prints, wire metal box and so on. The placement f the green tea pot on

the green mat gave me a rather conflicting feeling. Like the old merged with the new. The

other objects surrounding the box which the tea pot is in. To tell a story, and each object is

the story projected by the pot.

Everything Changed,

When I returned.

Not long after, everything is in a new place. Now, someone else is telling their story,

feeling or experience. And I can try to figure it out.