JONATHAN SEARY DEVELOPMENT


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11.14.2010

SETTING OUT THE GUIDELINES

So over the last week or so i have been thinking of ways to present my written work, there are many ways that i could do this, however i would like to represent the notion of improvisation, and how we use it in all sorts of ways. Having thought of ways around this in the 'what if' series i came to a holt, in the sense that showing improvisation within a written piece is just a predetermined thing, because i would have made the decisions consciously and that would mean the outcome is not improvised. Within the group discussion we looked at the problem from a different angle, and thought maybe i could get people to set me a confined set of rules, and a confined set of time and do something that was within the rules but was improvised, due to the time that i had to do it in, and this outcome therefore would be totally improvised, for example, the "brief" so to say could be, make a chair out of paper within three hours, basically i would have to improvise to make a chair out of paper within three hours, and with this outcome photograph it and then display it within my written piece.

So there would be two pieces within my final outcome, the written and perfected bit to it, then a section that is within it, with all these improvised pieces, displaying what you can achieve within the rules and time given to you, and as with improvisation, there will be glimpses of brilliance which would never occurred if thought through thoroughly, however im sure there will be mistakes within it, which i guess is also the beauty and charm of improvisation. I think im going to ask a range of people to set me these small tasks in the next few days.