This is a continuing social interactive installation, design by wen wen lin, lady joker facilitators for this show are Beautiful Giovanna Sun, striking Wen-chi Chen, & Wen Wen Lin TWANY artists (Taiwan Women Artist in New York), Exhibition gallery at Hell's kitchen area, 315 West 39 st, Gallery 505/506, New York
My Brave New World: An exercise of Dis-familiarization：
It is a viewer interactive, viewers immersive installation-- art in action. It aims to engage the viewers into realm of dis-familiarity, （and maybe discomfort zone.） And such an act challenges perception and could lead to breaking away from slavery of unwanted habits from our monkey mind. Habit is our identity, and habits breaking opens the door to the brave new world of de-coding and recoding, de-learning and
re-learning, and seeing the world anew. Deeply believe in art as a mean of social interaction, the artivist, Wen Wen Lin as facilitator/joker(neutral and non-directorial) at work, sets up the installation in action, aiming to help viewers decode and interact with fun. This is a creative process for the viewers, the viewers control the outcome, interpretation and sense making. The artist, the facilitator/joker remain no interpretation, and not imposition stand.
A video recording of the process will be made into a film: My Brave New World: Faces of Change.
Habits breaking Habits breaking could be nerve breaking. The viewers make their own work of art; the less dominant hand is called for action to substitute the dominant hand to perform complicated task that is used to be done by the dominant hand. By using the less dominant hand for action, one can break out of the routine of everyday life (note 1), the habitual ritual that we all follow on an auto-pilot mode, or for some others, theirs are dominated by neurosis, or compulsive habitual behavior. When the less dominant hand is used, it exercise different part of the brain, to subverse and dis-orient, and by confusing its original programming.
It is hoped to be particularly useful for breaking the momentum of un-productive thinking patterns, pain habits and sufferings habits, by interrupt their patterns, and hence creates a new wild and beautiful world of dis-familiarity, liken to a new born baby, to go back to “before any programming” is in our revolutionary self-- to be the first person on earth to experience this world for the first time, would be the ideal goal. Interrupt the patterns enough, it becomes another habit, by using one good habit to break the bad one.
Repetition is the queen: it takes 7 times to form a habit, and 21 days to break the habits. Our brain circuit take amgram or memory traces and produce neuron connection only if they are bombarded by information by 21 days in a roll. The brain cells that involves will grow dendrite that connect with all the brain cell that is doing this connect in the neuro- path way, and a habit is grown. Our brain will accept data change, and re-conditioning when repeated 21 days straight without missing a day.
Create suggestion, audio, alarm from cell phones, etc, to remind oneself to achieve consistency. It is harder to get rid of a habit—it is much easier to replace a bad habit with a good one.
The viewer will be led to a desk with 7 cards facing down, shuffled by the player her/himself, and each is written with different type of actions, and the viewer can pick a card, and use their less dominant hand to perform the action. The joker is the facilitator, facilitates the action.
The aim is to break negative habits. When using the less dominant hand to do the task, the viewer is asked to visualize a habit to break, or visualize the time when they are in the most emotional distressed state, or in the cycle of negative thinking:
The 7cards present 7 different commands for the viewers to perform:
(1) use your less dominant hand to write from 1 to 20，or to write in Chinese, My Brave New World: 我的美麗新世界
(2) use your less dominant hand to hold the chop stick, and pick up 10 grains of rice
(3) use your less dominant hand to shuffle a deck of cards, and dispense them
(4) use your less dominant hand to pull thread through the needle, and sew a pc of cloth on another
(5) use your less dominant hand to draw straight grid on paper, 7 x7= 49 square
(6) use your less dominant hand to draw the exit out of a maze, or labyrinth
(7) use your less dominant hand to hold an egg inside and practice Chinese calligraphy w. ink and brush
Note:
(1) using left hand as dominant hand in some culture is considered abnormal, and it calls for correction.
(2) facilitator/joker idea is influenced by method that is form in Theater of the Oppressed by Brazilian theater artivist Augusto Boal. The neutrality of the Joker card is a drama workshop leader who takes responsibility for the logistics of the process and ensures a fair proceeding, but must never comment upon or intervene in the content of the performance.
For complete album and info: please visit:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Brave-New-World-into-a-world-of-dis-familiarization-and-habit-breaking/195628870485153#!/pages/My-Brave-New-World-into-a-world-of-dis-familiarization-and-habit-breaking/195628870485153?sk=photos
My Brave New World: An exercise of Dis-familiarization：
It is a viewer interactive, viewers immersive installation-- art in action. It aims to engage the viewers into realm of dis-familiarity, （and maybe discomfort zone.） And such an act challenges perception and could lead to breaking away from slavery of unwanted habits from our monkey mind. Habit is our identity, and habits breaking opens the door to the brave new world of de-coding and recoding, de-learning and
re-learning, and seeing the world anew. Deeply believe in art as a mean of social interaction, the artivist, Wen Wen Lin as facilitator/joker(neutral and non-directorial) at work, sets up the installation in action, aiming to help viewers decode and interact with fun. This is a creative process for the viewers, the viewers control the outcome, interpretation and sense making. The artist, the facilitator/joker remain no interpretation, and not imposition stand.
A video recording of the process will be made into a film: My Brave New World: Faces of Change.
Habits breaking Habits breaking could be nerve breaking. The viewers make their own work of art; the less dominant hand is called for action to substitute the dominant hand to perform complicated task that is used to be done by the dominant hand. By using the less dominant hand for action, one can break out of the routine of everyday life (note 1), the habitual ritual that we all follow on an auto-pilot mode, or for some others, theirs are dominated by neurosis, or compulsive habitual behavior. When the less dominant hand is used, it exercise different part of the brain, to subverse and dis-orient, and by confusing its original programming.
It is hoped to be particularly useful for breaking the momentum of un-productive thinking patterns, pain habits and sufferings habits, by interrupt their patterns, and hence creates a new wild and beautiful world of dis-familiarity, liken to a new born baby, to go back to “before any programming” is in our revolutionary self-- to be the first person on earth to experience this world for the first time, would be the ideal goal. Interrupt the patterns enough, it becomes another habit, by using one good habit to break the bad one.
Repetition is the queen: it takes 7 times to form a habit, and 21 days to break the habits. Our brain circuit take amgram or memory traces and produce neuron connection only if they are bombarded by information by 21 days in a roll. The brain cells that involves will grow dendrite that connect with all the brain cell that is doing this connect in the neuro- path way, and a habit is grown. Our brain will accept data change, and re-conditioning when repeated 21 days straight without missing a day.
Create suggestion, audio, alarm from cell phones, etc, to remind oneself to achieve consistency. It is harder to get rid of a habit—it is much easier to replace a bad habit with a good one.
The viewer will be led to a desk with 7 cards facing down, shuffled by the player her/himself, and each is written with different type of actions, and the viewer can pick a card, and use their less dominant hand to perform the action. The joker is the facilitator, facilitates the action.
The aim is to break negative habits. When using the less dominant hand to do the task, the viewer is asked to visualize a habit to break, or visualize the time when they are in the most emotional distressed state, or in the cycle of negative thinking:
The 7cards present 7 different commands for the viewers to perform:
(1) use your less dominant hand to write from 1 to 20，or to write in Chinese, My Brave New World: 我的美麗新世界
(2) use your less dominant hand to hold the chop stick, and pick up 10 grains of rice
(3) use your less dominant hand to shuffle a deck of cards, and dispense them
(4) use your less dominant hand to pull thread through the needle, and sew a pc of cloth on another
(5) use your less dominant hand to draw straight grid on paper, 7 x7= 49 square
(6) use your less dominant hand to draw the exit out of a maze, or labyrinth
(7) use your less dominant hand to hold an egg inside and practice Chinese calligraphy w. ink and brush
Note:
(1) using left hand as dominant hand in some culture is considered abnormal, and it calls for correction.
(2) facilitator/joker idea is influenced by method that is form in Theater of the Oppressed by Brazilian theater artivist Augusto Boal. The neutrality of the Joker card is a drama workshop leader who takes responsibility for the logistics of the process and ensures a fair proceeding, but must never comment upon or intervene in the content of the performance.
For complete album and info: please visit:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Brave-New-World-into-a-world-of-dis-familiarization-and-habit-breaking/195628870485153#!/pages/My-Brave-New-World-into-a-world-of-dis-familiarization-and-habit-breaking/195628870485153?sk=photos
