For a recent family reunion (250 Forsters in San Juan Capistrano, CA!), I adapted the research on Ysidora Pico de Forster (1808-1873), which I collected during the creation of my performance “What’s on [My] Mind?“ and presented it to my family members in a straight-up presentation, complete with a Keynote slide show. In …
In addition to what Hugh posted a couple days ago, I’m further updating people (as promised in the Mixed Berry Shake June 2014 hangout) on what we’re doing in the MOOC Understanding Research Methods via Coursera. Here is a link to the question Hugh is developing and some discussion around it: How do Arabian women artists …
On March 12, 2014, I premiere a major part of the performance project I’ve been working on for the past year — What’s on [My] Mind? What’s on [My] Mind? is a transmedia performance. Working in multiple mediums — monologues, music, social media, virtual worlds, and blogs —I explore how …
Vanessa found this RFP for the LACMA Art+Technology Lab, and I’ve been toying with what a Blueberry Blintz proposal might look like; honestly, I’m stumped, because I don’t really work with “emerging technologies” as a practice, but (!) I think we can relate what we’re doing with these points in the …
Did come thrice with Mars… I didn’t actually end up dressing in a chain-mail nightie, but I would have liked to if I’d had more time! In the fourth quarter of 2013, Vanessa Blaylock asked me to participate in her Dance for Camera: The Planets, which would be staged in …
Let’s put an ancestor of ours from the year 1850 in conversation with one another in the present on Twitter. Why? To see what happens! In my current performance project — “What’s on [My] Mind?” — I use an intergenerational persona to transcend time, space, race, class and history in …
Four of the six original Blueberries hung out today in Google + for our first 2014 meet-up. I — Christa — facilitated a discussion around my project, “What’s on [My] Mind?”, its current status, concerns, progress. Michael, Molly, and Vanessa listened sensitively, gave useful feedback, posed great questions, and agreed …
One of the first posts I made within the walled garden of the PBRA/NovoEd’s Team Journal, from around October 17 — I was waiting for my other teammates to show up. They had names like Q1456 and Tom Ford and William Kheel. Vanessa and I were already talking, but we …
Had a great hangout with Rebecca today! I loved hearing more about Rebecca’s project. I’m super happy about it — I love the literal gift-giving impetus of her work — and I think that the type of site-specific work she’s creating is just what a place like SFO needs! I …
Sher Doruff, the guest artist for week 9 of NovoED’s PBRA, directed us to devise a “bespoke rubric”; that is, to outline the ways in which we want our work (i.e., the projects each of us brought to the MOOC) to be critiqued. Bespoke = custom made Bespoke = built …
For the Blueberry Blintz team Relational Art/PBR assignment, I had to do two things at once — pick up my kids from school while simultaneously working on my PBRA project. This having-to-do-two-or-more-things-at-onceness is the MO of my life. My daughter had a playdate already set up for after school, but …
Starting to think about this idea that Rebecca Longworth articulated in one of our online conversations — a “recipe book” of sorts so that this structure of performance-creation can be applied to any public space. I have a parallel project that concerns creating public-space performances quickly in response to current …
Vanessa has encouraged me to present my ideas in a more public sphere, so I present my musings on my Blueberry Blintz teammate’s reflections about Lois Weaver’s PBRA exercise (is that wordy or what!?). In our (closed) team journal, there are thirteen different “discussions” going on this assignment folder. Mine …
What’s on [My] Mind? • view all posts by Christa Forster Here are the first and third person pov descriptions of the project I’m bringing to our PBRA course.
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