LocEmotion Tuesday 24th October, 8.05pm

LocEmotion 2- Tuesday night...ooops I almost forgot! I ask:- "Where are you? What can you see? How do you feel?"
Will the class remember? Or will they think a stalker sent them the message...?

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At home, photoshopping 4 assignment 3. I want to sleep. Ova uni work.

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Lying on my bed talking to my boyfriend on the phone. Listening to him whinge about work. Staring at Kurt Cobain who looks half stoned. Craving french fries.

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Huh?

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I am at home, listening to music, cooking for the first time in eons. Content. Pondering reading- avoiding a promise that I'd write him an article. (Guilt).

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I'm in front of a computer, patiently waiting for some friends to pick me up to go and have dinner. I feel relieved when I see other hungry faces around me.

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Un chambre de filth watching 20 to 1. Who gives a shit about jana pittman/ sporting feuds in general. This shouldn't be in the top 20 of any list.

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I'm playing squash. Just lost the modern equivalent of an epic battle. But next week, revenge!

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@ home. I see mum's b'day present. My left leg aches from running 4 the train in thongs. Tired. Will watch a poirot dvd now.

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At the rose of australia. Friends eating and drinking. Little pissy but full.

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On the train fogged window blue sky deep lights sparkle sleepy happy almost home

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Was at the dinner table eating steak. Looking at my dogs pleading eyes, angry at my mum coz she was being a bitch...

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Wake up, dazed & confused..so dark, so quiet. Oh! Fell asleep on the couch again. Ouch. Blurry sandpaper eyes. Grumpy shuffle to bed hours past bedtime. Need all the beauty sleep I can scrounge.

WriterVention

The first time we've done this - a writing intervention in the UTS environs. Find a space and write something to provoke, disrupt or question our engagement with the space. Chalk + concrete.
Concrete poetry, eat your heart out.


"Was it good for you" Jen, Louise, Vanessa


"Let's look through the round window" Bethan, Rachel


"Vote or Die" Kiel, Tim, Rachel





"This is Art" Arnau, Andrew, Anthony


"No Tripping" Tim, Kiel, Rachel

LocEmotion 06

This is our Location/ Emotion sms writing exercise, 06 version. 11.35, Wednesday October 18th. Find a location at UTS where you had a strong emotional experience. Go there. Then write about where you are, what you were feeling, by sms. We'll follow up a bit later in the week...

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I'm sitting on the seats out the back of the main UTS building. It is where i sat with a mixture of boredom and excitement before my 1st ever UTS class.

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A special place for me is a room on the fourth floor of the tower building. There, on the couches, is where I usually get together with my friends.

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Thomas st, I paid for 2 people's parking on my credit card as machine wasn't taking coins. It made me feel like I was contributing to a better society, one where you helped each other out without questioning.

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2nd Floor Bon Marche. Last min poetry assignment 4 col & mod: There once was a black in jamaica, he worked all day but no money he'd maica, he threw down his plow, said I ain't no cow, and was beaten till he did meet his maker. Much laughter and anxiety ensued.

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Glass house, brown couches in the corner near the stairs. I was sitting with Jared, who was cheating on his longtime girlfriend with me, holding hands. My other friend was with us. Jared was going to the States to visit his girlfriend soon, we were gonna break it off before then. He started kissing me, then said he was thinking about proposing to his girlfriend when he got there, figured it was the best way to say sorry for cheating. Then he started kissing me again. My friend was shocked and couldn't stop telling us how fucked up we were. My stomach was churning and my ears were ringing as i went from thinking of myself as objective and emotionally and sexually liberated to feeling like a whore. I broke it off an hour later.

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Tower building level-? High. 1st eva class. Amazing view out window. Nervous. Jet lagged. Tym 2 chat 2 and intro ppl next to me. "This is Chad everyone. he's from Ecuador". "No, I'm from Lebanon". Oops. Lost a friend.

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I stand on a chair, on level 19. I am in awe. The city is endless, endlessly busy. Orderly, chaotic; I'm powerful, vulnerable. Is that my house? Never.

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Stepping off the side walk in front of tower building. I can't believe I'm protesting on george st. I'm not meant to walk on such a black and uninviting surface.

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The lift shuddered to a stop, half way between lvl 6 and 4. Half a minute passed and everyone in the packed lift was panicking. The lift jolted, and we all held out breath, hoping the doors would open. And they finally did, on lvl 2. Nobody dared get back in, wandering aimlessly through the car park until an exit was found. Phew!

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I was 5 minutes away from my non-fiction class held on level 20-odd of the fugly tower. Didn't pay attention if lift was going up or down..It took me to the evil tower's rectum, rose away and left me stranded (& commanded its fellow conspirators to shuttle back and forth only on upper floors). I was forced to stay there in the humming, stale -air breathing concrete bowels of the tower just long enough to be irritatingly late to class.

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I'm at the loft; for this is the intial place i met international students. On the first day of orientation we went there with one objective : to drink.

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Pc lab 420 in tower once went to print came back woman on my comp told her its mine she stay i say i wait she angry Y Its mine embssed and proud cos cld have let go

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Falling. Falling. Falling. Claustrophobia. No reception. Lvl 18. falling. Too short. can't breathe. Lvl 12. Awkward stillness. awkward standing. Closing doors. Still falling. Lvl 4. Send. Relief. Fresh air. Going home!

Storytelling in mobile spaces

here are the links i'm referring to:-
• Mobliterature- Japan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/4840436.stm
http://web-japan.org/trends/lifestyle/lif040310.html

• Locative media – experiencing the real world, mediated.
Re-engaging with the world before our eyes, and beneath our feet.
Mobility – what does it mean to be mobile? To walk?

• Situationists, Guy Debord, theory of the derive
http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/314

• Dr Reinhold Grether’s comprehensive site of mobile artwork
http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/mobi.htm

• Place based storytelling – annotating the world, revealing agitated spaces/ hidden histories
Murmur http://murmurtoronto.ca
Yellow Arrow http://yellowarrow.net
Traces: Stories Written Upon this Town
Yellow Arrow http://dlux.org.au/mobilejourneys/meganhayward.html

Harper Collins / Mobile readers
http://www.harpercollins.com.au/mobilereader/index.asp

The Novel 2.0, a discussion between two novelists and the future of the novel within the internett....

http://www.slate.com/id/2151004/entry/2151016/