Week 6 (13-19 feb 2023)
I want to reflect on many things that have happened in my life.
The project, the reading. And the lectures. There’s uncertainty and confusion.
I have to meet new people from MACCC, and it’s hard for me.
I don’t like making new connections or friends. Friendship can’t develop in one week. I need more time, and I know I have five weeks to go.
Group dynamics are essential. You must deal with new people. People interact with one another in a small groups. The stages of Group Development this week are forming and storming. Forming is that we all have agreements, Directions, and purpose. Storming is when we have conflicts and struggles (Tuckman, 1965).
Tuckman, B.W. (1965) “Developmental sequence in small groups.,” Psychological Bulletin, 63(6), pp. 384–399. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1037/h0022100.
On Wednesday, I went to the exhibition name ‘Nocturne’ by Ingela Ihrman at Gasworks gallery. There’re sculptures and videos about Oilbird. The main exhibition is Oilbird with Nestling (2021). The artist uses a camera to record in conditions of self-isolation during the pandemic. I feel like it’s about empathy and a sense of motherhood. The bird mother takes care of her baby and feeds her baby with food. She tries to find food from outside to keep her baby alive and safe. I love how the video tells a story by using subjects that can find in the normal life of humans and use them in the context of the animal’s life. It’s can reflect tenderness.
The space of this gallery makes me surprised because the space is small, but the artist can create the experience for this exhibition to fit the size of this space. Starting with a video about the digestive tract of a giant snake, then sculptures of the snake and bird. Ending with the main video about the oilbird.
On Friday, I work with my project group (The Apple Group). It’s not the first time that we met because we met on Wednesday at Gasworks and got to know each other background. That’s helped us a lot; we know what we going to talk bout in the meeting. We discussed future work. There are many topics that we can go with, such as Environmental/Sustainable, Gender/Sex Concerns, Well-being/Mental Health, and Technology Installation.
What is the office going to look like in the future?
What do we work for?
Do we work for money or happiness?
We all have limited resources, so what will we do with that problem?
Can it be Non-profit space?
Can it be flexible time to work?
There are many questions that we talked about, and we need to decide soon.
We want to design a space or something that can interactive with people too.
This week made me feel lost and anxious, but I tried my best to deal with and hold myself together. Be in the present and stop worrying about the future that does not happen. These things teach me how to live in the real world and that anything can happen at anytime. This is just the beginning. I can do it by myself and with help from my tutors and my friends.