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The Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival | SMHAFF :: Events

THE COURAGE TO DREAM

Glasgow

Theatre

‘I start where you leave off... You analyse people’s dreams. I give them courage to dream again’ - J.L.Moreno, founder of Psychodrama, to Sigmund Freud in 1914.

In Solar Bear’s groundbreaking form of Therapeutic Theatre, people who use mental health services explore memories and dreams in a series of psychodrama workshops. Shaping their experiences into a live theatre performance gives sufficient distance and control to speak out and be heard, with cathartic results for both performers and audience alike.

Venue Information

Stalls Studio, Citizens Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, Glasgow, G5 9DS

Event Information

Wed 19th, Thu 20th

Free

Aimed at people who work in or who access mental health services. Booking: 0141 429 0022 or www.citz.co.uk

Billy The Kid

http://billythekiddocumentary.com/

Pilvi Takala

2010
7:50 min video (16:9)

see 3:15 min video excerpt

"Players" portrays a community of 6 poker professionals who live among a larger poker community in Bangkok. Playing poker is more just a way to make money than a passion for them, but the rules that govern their community follow the logic of the game. They use probability theory, the fundamental theory of poker, to ensure that they treat each other justly, and that everyone contributes equally. The systematic and analyzed way these poker players look at everyday life may seem absurd, and their life style is easy to judge, but this shock might be more over their ignoring their original society than over the way they have built their own.

Thank you: People of Scandi Tower

Supported by Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten

for OPENING

http://www.reproduction-plaster.co.uk/about

Asch Experiment

Stanford Prison Experiment

Living Room Conversations

Living Room Conversations #1 from Danspace Project on Vimeo.

Living Room Conversations #3 from Danspace Project on Vimeo.

Living Room Conversations #4 from Danspace Project on Vimeo.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/artarchives/2003/aug/whitechapel.html

Janet and GEORGE and philip lorca dicorcia 2003

Philip Lorca diCorcia

"Passive is also being active" -- Philip Lorca diCorcia

blog entry

http://cwangdom.blogspot.com/2006/02/post-tourist.html

Post-Tourist

Apparantly, there is a term called "post-tourist", I guess this term is talking about tourism in our post-modern world. Here are a couple quotes about tourism and post-modernity to help you and I to understand what is a "post-tourist".

"Moderinism, then is to be understood as a process of differentiation, especially as we have seen here, of the differentiation between the various cultural sphceres both horizontally and vertically. Postmodernim, by contrast, involves de-differentiation." Page 84

"Postmodern cultural forms are not consumed in a state of contemplation (as in the classical concert) but of distraction." Page 85

"Tourism is prefiguratively postmodern because of its particular combination of the visual, the aesthetic, and the popular." Page 87

The post-tourist is someone who does not have to leave the confines of their home to “see” the objects of the tourist gaze. They are aware of the similarity between seeing the object within a frame whether it be through a television screen or the window of a car. The distinctiveness of the tourist gaze is being lost to post-modern pop-culture. The second element of being a post-tourist is the awareness of choice, they are free from the constraints of ‘high culture’.

“Now he [sic] wants to behold something sacred; now something informative, to broaden him, now something beautiful, to life him and make him finer; and now something just different, because he’s bored” Page 100

They can simultaneously enjoy a replica of the Eiffel tower as a piece of kitsch or/and as a socially revealing artifact. The post-tourist is a creature of knowledge and they are able criticize the post-modern world but at the same time they are able to live within it without shame. The third aspect is the most important. The post-tourist knows that they are tourists, and that tourism is a game and that this is an ongoing experience that has infinite possibilities.

This idea of post-tourist is very peculiar, and right now I would have to say that this is most peoples view on tourism. Perhaps people are more informed about the world? I am not sure. At the moment it is an interesting observation on the tourist sensibility.

Urry, John. The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies. London: Sage Publications Ltd., 1990.

Extended Essay

Synopsis of Extended Essay

‘Post-Tourism an the Artist in Residence’

What does TOURISM mean today? An introduction consisting of:

• · A history of tourism (Thomas Cook, European Tours of gentry)
• · The beginning of affordable travel (lifestyle choices, economic boom etc)
• · Budget airlines, holiday reps, the three Ss
• · Tourism niches (sex, activist, medical, religious tourism)

What is POST-TOURISM?

• · Explanation and break-down of the term ie Post-Modern-Tourism
• · Little Eiffel Tower model, photo of Eiffel Tower in backgroud
• · Gap Years, Residencies, Exchanges
• · Artist in Residence as tourist (interviews)
• · Exhibitions about Tourism (CRS sources)

Ethics in Tourism. Ethics in Post-Tourism.

• · What issues need to be addressed and on how many levels?
• 1. Exploitation of mass holiday goers, lack of control in package holidays
• 2. Generalization of those who choose package holidays
• 3. Tourism as low culture/Travel as high culture
• 4. Artists’ relationship within tourism: influence vs. avoidance

Conclusion? Or another Chapter?

Annika Strom

http://www.annikastrom.net/