Monday’s Positioning
A space of orientation. If space had a sound, I don’t think it would be far off from this. Fuzzy filters rumbling around the ears, Arp like sounds reaching for higher frequencies in headspaces. If NYC to AMS is about being in the plane, then Monday’s positioning is about what’s happening outside, on one’s journey to flight. I meditate on positionality and see someone (maybe me) groaning those exact words from afar, almost questioning the odds, questioning where one stands… or more aptly, how one soars? And at what expense? This day we are encouraged to think about our positionality from within the spaces from which we work, and maybe how we articulate ourselves to others. How this informs our acts of collections is a question I’m still busy with… as I collect quotes from speakers, and sounds from my small perspective of Rotterdam, a song emerges. And as I reflect on today, so does this meditation on positionality:
- Find a position, be still & take three deep breaths.
- Imagine yourself in a plane, seeing in as much detail where you are positioned in this plane.
- Imagine its ascension into the skies, and then its time in flight, then lastly, its decent.
- Note the kind of ground you land on, this can be as wild as your imagination takes you.
- Imagine what things in this image are fixed and that which things move constantly.
- Repeat, but this time with the music. If you want to increase the intensity of the image, then abstract your image of the plane (for example, my body could be the plane, and I’m sitting inside this body/plane)
Notes on Positionality
