Lost in Google Translation: the Heterotopia within which we meet
This is a complementary booklet presenting the background process of creating the following 3D Utopia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh_FtQtUEio
"Baby Don't Lie" Uh huh, here we go We been walking down this road for sometime And you love, and you love me good, no lie But there's something behind those eyes, those eyes That you can't, that you can't disguise, disguise Baby don't, baby don't, baby don't lie I don't wanna cry no longer Baby don't, baby don't, baby don't lie I'm a' need a love that's stronger I'll tell you know, tell you know, tell you know why, know why If we ever give up, then we're gonna die Look me in the eye Baby don't lie We been walking down this road for sometime And you love, and you love me good, no lie But there's something behind those eyes, those eyes That you can't, that you can't disguise, disguise Baby tell me there's nothing below (ooh) Baby tell me there's nothing below (here we go, come on!) Baby don't, baby don't, baby don't lie I don't wanna cry no longer Baby don't, baby don't, baby don't lie I'm a' need a love that's stronger I'll tell you know, tell you know, tell you know why, know why If we ever give up, then we're gonna die Look me in the eye Baby don't lie Whatcha' hiding boy? Whatcha' hiding boy? I can tell what you've been hiding boy And you can tell me if I'm getting warm Am I getting warm? Am I getting warm? Am I getting warm? And you can tell me if I'm getting warm Baby don't, baby don't, baby don't lie I don't wanna cry no longer Baby don't, baby don't, baby don't lie I'm a' need a love that's stronger I'll tell you know, tell you know, tell you know why, know why If we ever give up, then we're gonna die Look me in the eye Baby don't lie Baby don't lie Yeah, yeah, yeah Baby don't lie
Conversation started Friday Symeon Banos 09/10/2015 20:56 Symeon Banos Hey Chang! I'd like you to relax in your home, clean your mind of any thoughts, look at this picture and share with me your feelings about the space in the super Mario video! Don't forget the emojis!
09/10/2015 20:57 this is a video Symeon Banos 09/10/2015 20:57 Symeon Banos No no it's just an image! 09/10/2015 20:57 a i see I am thinking now Symeon Banos 09/10/2015 20:58 Symeon Banos Take your time and don't forget: answer me in Chinese! 09/10/2015 21:02
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Now, I'd like to know your feelings about the colors in these spaces
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đ&#x;˜Ż Symeon Banos 09/10/2015 21:12 Symeon Banos Ok! Now imagine you are inside this huge sphere! How do you feel?
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Symeon Banos 09/10/2015 21:38 Symeon Banos So, what about these plastic installations? Imagine your are next to them or even into them!
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Symeon Banos 09/10/2015 21:46 Symeon Banos I would really like to know your thoughts or feelings about these shapes and volumes!
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Perfect! Now, what if you were sitting on this bench? What's your feeling concerning light and shadow?
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Symeon Banos 09/10/2015 22:49 Symeon Banos So how about this landscape? Imagine you landed on that landscape! Symeon Banos 09/10/2015 22:49
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Symeon Banos 09/10/2015 23:00 Symeon Banos Any thoughts or feelings about the space and the order of the objects in this picture?! Symeon Banos 09/10/2015 23:00 Symeon Banos
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Symeon Banos 10/10/2015 01:10 Symeon Banos Now I would really like to know your feelings about the well-known pinpoint impression toy! What about the sensation when you touch the needles? What about the different shapes this toy takes?
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Symeon Banos How do you feel looking at these ornaments? 10/10/2015 01:29
Symeon Banos 10/10/2015 01:32 Symeon Banos And last but not least, this video! I would love to hear about your feeling concerning this video and in particular about the relations between the performers/dancers and the space/set! And maybe any thoughts about their moves or their costumes!
Das Triadische Ballet. Best Quality! A film in three parts after Oskar Schlemmer's dances. Book and Choreography: Margarete Hasting, Franz SchĂśmbs, Georg Verden. Rehearsal: Hannes Winkler. Recon... youtube.com Today 15:10
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15:13 maybe there are too much chinese if you have any trouble about translate please let me know i love to help you and sorry again for late Symeon Banos 15:23 Symeon Banos Oh never mind sweety! If I need any help I'll send you a message! Thank you very much If you anything from me don't hesitate to ask me!! 15:24 hahahah okay :)
Super Mario video game Carlos Cruz-Diez - Chromosaturation at the “Luce e Movimento / Lumière et Mouvement” exhibition, Venice, Italy, 2010 and Chromosaturation at the “Suprasensorial. Experiments in Light, Color, and Space” exhibition, Los Angeles, USA, 2010 Étienne-Louis Boulle - Newton’s Cenotaph, 1784 Gwen Stefani - Baby Don't Lie, Video Director: Sophie Muller, Video Director: Weirdcore, Video, Producer: Grant Jue for Wondros, (C) 2014 Mad Love Records/Interscope Records Plastique-Fantastique - Sinestesia, IED Madrid, 2013 Vaso Plavou, Harrie Kourkoulis & Alexios Papazacharias - Modeled Assaults, 2015 Tadao Ando - Koshino House, Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan, 1984 The labyrinth at Nathanael’s Rest, Galicia, Spain, dated to perhaps 2000BC eBoy poster Bill Viola - The Veiling, 1995 Sou Fujimoto - Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London, 2013 Matthew Lyons - Pure, Illustration for The New York Times Book Review of Pure by Julianna Baggott Stephanie Gonot - L.A.EATS, a solo installation at The Standard, Hollywood, 2014 pinpoint impression toy John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, Sixth edition, Kent, George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, 1889 Oskar Schlemmer - Das Triadische Ballet, Book and Choreography: Margarete Hasting, Franz Schömbs, Georg Verden, Rehearsal: Hannes Winkler, Reconstruction of the costumes: Margit Bárdy, Art Consulting: Ludwig Grote, Xanti Schawinsky, Tut Schlemmer, Dancers: Edith Demharter, Ralph Smolik, Hannes Winkler, Music: Erich Ferstl, Camera: Kurt Gewissen, Cut: Johannes Nickel, Production Director: Helmut Amann, Production: Gottfried Just
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From: Symeon Banos (s.banos1@arts.ac.uk) Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 3:00:54 PM To: simosb_88@hotmail.com (simosb_88@hotmail.com) Dear Simon,
I was so excited about my collaboration with Chang! She was the very first person I met we were both lost at CSM, searching for the F104 classroom! Afterwards, during the introductory presentation, I was so amazed by her work that I wanted so bad to work with her! And then, karma happened, Tricia announced she was my partner for our first project! What I found when we started talking was that se was struggling with english. I immediately started cursing the english language (as a structure always). Being a fan of Wittgenstein’s theory about how language is a structure that shapes our way of thinking and wanting to overpass the linguistic obstacle, I thought the perfect way to obtain genuine and raw answers from her, was to start a conversation with her at her mother language! In this way she would be free to express herself and be unfiltered. Furthermore, being let’s say mostly an architect, interior designer and curator (or in a few words: someone who molds spaces) I had to create a synthesize space! In particular, I had to create a utopia reflecting me and Chang’s meeting, but most importantly her way of understanding me, me as an architect, me as a designer, on the grounds of what Albert Camus said “The only way to get to know someone is through the affect that his/her actions have on you”. Consequently, my approach, in order to get to know Chang, was through the very core of my discipline (and my whole creativity), the space. The process was the following: I sent to Chang images or videos including/presenting spaces via different means of expression, approaching their meaning in several ways: from Gwen Stefani’s video to Bill Viola’s work. I asked Chang to give me unedited and spontaneous answers in her language concerning her feelings about the space, the colors, the volumes, the relation between light & shadow as well as between body & space. What was considered to be the second step, I Google translated her answers in order to star designing my utopia! In this way, I tried to demonstrate/illustrate my approach towards the communication issues that appear inside the linguistic structure and that block the intercultural dialogue. In parallel, I tried to insert an additional mediator, Google translator which is actually inadequate and misleading. In this way, I surrendered to the given fact that some things are meant to be lost in translation, and emphasized it. After collecting all the necessary informations about how Chang feels about space, colors, shapes etc I started creating a small cottage in a landscape. But what I chose to do was not to come up with a finished determined render of this utopia, but actually record the whole process of creating it in order to express in this way the dynamic course of our fresh relationship: the small cube opens up gradually and transforms from opaque into transparent, revealing its beautiful interior space: in the same way that Chang started revealing her inner character to me. What is more, the video never ends, therefore demonstrating that the dialogue just started!
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