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- Age
- 39
- I am...
- so I think
- I have a website
- http://www.coaching-it.com
- Artistic Field or Interest
- performative art
- Profession
- systemic consultant and coach for individuals and organisations
- Artistic and professional experiences
- artistic: perfomances in and about public space, stating, ironising and reversing rules and regulations concerning human behaviour in the public - a distorting mirror that reflects a reality behind the obvious.
atm. building on a project where artists with and without disablitities of different branches work together on a platform, exchanging there approaches and experiences.
professional: coaching individuals, teams and organisations concerning their
ways of communication, conflict-management, self-organising etc.
Builing/rebuilding teams, that have strong obstacles (extern/intern) in collaboration.
Coaching people with disablities, that run he risk of losing their job and training them in a process of self-reflection and enhancment.
- I like...
- to resolve problems by the most flexible structure I can find.
- Statement
- Examining structures of the social relevance of art (networks, cross-structures, cycles) plus setting up interventions in order to open ones mind for re-structuring them.
Furthermore try to gather output in creative forms of evaluation that shall lead to some sort of dynamic (vs. static) strategy of operation and/or attitude.
Finding new forms and media to stress the homogeneity as well as the oppositeness in the artistic expression of culture. Are images put into equal contexts? If yes, in which ways of creative work can they be enhanced to stand for an “intercultural” approach. And if not, which aspects of alteration or description are needed to close the gaps found.
Starting the discourse about vivid potentials and constraints of the different aspects and consequentially experiment with the results by using interventional forms of action, - briefly: the search for creative alternatives of examination and expression (within the boundaries of cultures and with the intend to expand them wherever possible).
Detecting basic approaches for an explicit social theory within the complexity of the circumstances under which Reloading Images is taking place as well as preferably transforming them to strategies of action and finally bring them to illustratable conclusions.
Coming from a background based on humanities and social sciences in combination with my knowledge of communication and conflict strategies related to practice (both working with single persons as well as with teams of different social or professional contexts) I would like to extend my field of activity in practice and thought.
Therefore I am interested especially in developing and setting up different but suitable possibilities of evaluation that lead to trains of thought and action and maybe even to some applicable theories.
- Research interests
- human behaviour
- How did you end up with Reloading Images?
- ahhh - a longlong story...
Sophia Krey-Kolios's Blog
Moderation is an additive for collaboration!
Moderation is an additive for collaboration!
Moderation is a basic tool of our virtual and no virtual collaboration
- on our virtual blogs
- during the workshops now and in October in Damascus
Moderation can already occur in a three-head-conversation, control and intervene, or just build a frame in an open space situation.
It can simmer down a boiling hot argument, bring up and storm through a great many of thoughts, ideas and creative input. It gives everybody an equal chance to partic… Continue
Moderation is a basic tool of our virtual and no virtual collaboration
- on our virtual blogs
- during the workshops now and in October in Damascus
Moderation can already occur in a three-head-conversation, control and intervene, or just build a frame in an open space situation.
It can simmer down a boiling hot argument, bring up and storm through a great many of thoughts, ideas and creative input. It gives everybody an equal chance to partic… Continue
Posted on August 7, 2008 at 4:00am — 2 Comments
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And thanks for your questions, that give me the possibility to elaborate my
impressions after my "touch" in Damascus, putting them down in a written form.
You ask me what has been my very first impressions when I arrived with you.
Well, I would like to answer with absolute sincerity.
Since the first moment there were two different sensations in my mind.
The first one was due to my damned materialistic and historicist approach to
reality: immediatly I thought I has been just arrived in a late-situationist
context, not very comfortable for me, i.e. very theoretical, too far from
practice and from the surrounding circumstances. But then, speaking with some of you, I have understand that you were (and are) aware of your difficulties to enter in connection with the local context, and that you problematize this aspect of your activity. I'm still convinced that the problem of interaction and practice on territory is crucial for your experience and that it has to be deal, but now I believe that there could be a great potentiality.
The second immediate impression derived from the previous one and apparently contradicted it. During my twenties I has been very familiar with the concept and the practice of "psychogeography", that is the esploration of the territory trying to record the impressions and emotions that it provokes in ourselves, collecting stories, views, perceptions, and drawning a sort of emotional map of the places. Many of the actions I saw during my permanence in Damascus reminded me something well known and I enjoyed it.
Then you ask me about the atmosphere I breathed during my lecture at the
hammam. Well, it has been great. Not only for the wonderful place, but most of all because there was a real sense of community: many people coming from different countries and with different biographies listened to me even if I was speaking about very strange arguments and they participated to the debate with very interesting questions and interventions. The problem of the practice effects on the local context of such an experience remains, but I'm not so sure that it could be the same anywhere. That event was bound to happen there, in Damascus and not in another place. Somewhere else it would be completely different.
Your third question regards our trip: "The following day, you took some of us
to a trip down south of syria - following Lawrence's traces. Did you arrive
here with this idea or did it come to your mind during your stay?"
I never had something like that in my mind before staying with you, and of
course I can't imagine so many of you would like to comply my literary
suggestions. It has been a sort of wandering through Roman ruins, sunshine,
shadows, tents, villages, highways and old railways traces. A little travelling
international community. It has been funny and romantic. It touched me and I
would like to imagine that in the future we will remember such a peculiar moment we shared. Of course I will.
At last: how do I imagine the "hypothetical output" of the project as I encountered it?
Well, it's quite hard to me to find an answer. I stayed so few days in
Damascus. Really I'm very interesting in the publication that will be produced
at the end of the project. I hope other "reloadings" will fellow. And if I can
give an advice for any possible new edition, I think you might discuss a more
specific theme or general line around which or from which the collective work
can be organized, stimulating the partecipants to broach it in accordance with
their actitude and sensibility, and to putting it in connection with the local
context. I think that such a choise could help the project to have more concrete effects.
Let me conclude this brief feedback saying that as far as I knew you are very
kind people. Everyone of you. Do you believe it's a small thing? I don't. Maybe
because I'm still living since too many times in a dying country. I'm afraid
I'm becoming sentimental with age, so I stop here.
Please, hug everybody downthere from me and tell them that I hope we will meet again somewhere in this battered world... or when we will be golden clouds in the wind :-)
Federico