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Craft Without Boundaries
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The talk in July 2018, titled "Paths into a More Open World," explores the concept of "constellating craft," which emerges and evolves outside established cultural frameworks. The discussion draws on the philosophies of various thinkers, such as Michel Foucault and Joan Didion, who highlight how the act of writing can lead to unexpected insights. The talk also reflects on the speaker's interactions with Eric Berne and Virginia Satir, noting how their work in therapy and human relationships paralleled this idea of open exploration and understanding beyond traditional boundaries.
Referenced Works:
- "Games People Play" by Eric Berne: This book introduces ideas about human interaction and relationships, offering perspectives on personal dynamics that align with the concept of creating and understanding spaces outside cultural confines.
- Writings by Michel Foucault: Foucault’s philosophy that "writing writes writing" suggests that the process of creation itself can lead to new ideas and discoveries, resonating with the theme of craft evolving independently of cultural constraints.
- Writings by Joan Didion: Didion’s approach to writing as a means to discover personal thoughts supports the talk's assertion that engagement with a craft can guide one's understanding beyond conscious reasoning.
- Family Sculpture by Virginia Satir: This therapeutic approach uses family dynamics as a framework for personal and relational insight, echoing the idea of crafting understanding through unconventional methodologies.
AI Suggested Title: Craft Without Boundaries
I've been somewhat acquainted with and a kind of non-conscious or even unconscious perhaps participant in or at least an observer of the development of this constellating craft This exhibition art or craftsmanship has been known to me for a long time, or in a way, it is unconsciously known to me. Or I could say I am an observer of it and have participated in exhibitions. And I say constellating craft because, using the word craft, because crafts have the power to develop outside of the cultural framework in which they are practiced.
[01:08]
I think of Foucault, Michel Foucault, saying, writing writes writing. Or Joan Didion says, another writer, novelist says, she writes in order to find out what she thinks. And those are examples of, simple examples of how a craft leads you through the activity of the craft where you wouldn't go to just by thinking or following your cultural habits.
[02:11]
Years ago, I knew Eric Byrne, you know moderately well, who wrote a book called Games, People, Play. And he had ideas that, like, what room were you feel most identified with? The bathroom or the living room or... the yard, and things like that. And who's that? Eric Byrne, B-E-R-N-E. This was in the early 60s, and... And Virginia Satir I knew, too. Not very well, but I knew her. And I mention these people because they somehow, for me, felt like they were going in the direction of constellation therapy and with...
[03:20]
Virginia Satir, she had this idea of family sculpture. You could use the family to kind of sculpture a space which informs you. And I mention these people because at that time I had the feeling that they had already gone in the direction in which the exhibition therapy had gone. And Virginia Satir, for example, had this idea of a family sculpture and the question of which sculpture or how to represent the sculpture of a family. I mention these things because unwittingly unwittingly no unwittingly means without knowing it knowing what I was doing
[04:36]
I was participating in an interest. I liked Eric Byrne, and I liked what was going on with Virginia Satir and stuff. I didn't know what I was doing. I just kind of liked it. And I mention that because without me being aware of it at the time, I took part in something through the acquaintance with Eric Byrne and Virginia Satir, where I didn't know exactly what they were doing, but... We have a problem here. It's blinking. It's blinking. Go ahead. Where I didn't know exactly what they were doing, but... Yeah. It felt like, see, you know, my legs won't do that anymore in a chair. Yeah. I said to her, should I sit on a cushion or a chair? She said, let's sit on a chair, but... Okay. So what they were doing, it felt like something I knew or...
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