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The first experience is that we are still working around the world wide. Due to the coronavirus, we have started lockdown worldwide, and by spending most of our time at home we are developing self-care mentally and physically. Generally, the trivial and daily things what we used to do past time were changed such as going gym and restaurant and so on. So I think it would be fun to deal with this self-care life comparing the differences the past period which is before the covid.

Second thing is outfit. Most of modern young people are very sensitive from trend. And each outfit is considered as one of important parts to make each atmosphere visually. Additionally, wearing clothes are kind of expressions what I want to become and make image, and I think it also can be considered self-care physically.
I thought social pressures change the standard of self-care.
As I am Asian and Korean who living in Europe, I could compare the tendency how people put on clothes and express themselves through outfits between Asia and Europe. In Asia, there is a division between what you want to wear and what you can wear. Since I came to the Netherlands, I can wear whatever I want. In this sensitive trendy society, I think fake self-care is rooted as a public cognition.
Real self-care focus on what I like to see and take care of myself instead of others’ vision.

Additionally, I also thought this fake self care would be affected from distorted media.

Architects define much of the fabric of our cities and associated public realms (parks, plazas, facades, public buildings), but do so in service of clients who provide both the program and the finance for the projects. In a neoliberal framework, even attempts by architects to contribute to the production of democratic civic places is appropriated by developers for capitalist accumulation, depublicizing public spaces in the process.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/20507828.2017.1325263

Ideas
My case is the amount of installed benches on the street. I thought it is tightly related with capitalism cause as a typical example, in the hot weather people easy to feel exhausted so they want to have a rest under shade when they are outside. But if there are only cafe, restaurant around us and there are no bench on the street, human doesn’t have choice, they have to pay for shop to take a rest, to drink some waters =. People have to buy rest time and through it people pay money for comfortable self care unintentionally.

-Notes from Counter-Cartographies

The general meaning of counter mapping : A map that expresses dissent to the power of a particular group.
The strategies for practices of certain mapping : Producing autonomous knowledge, comprehending territory, system, and including invisible conflict into map.

In this society where was spread of capitalism, mapping have been instrumentalized in multiple ways in order to various purpose like political, social, and decolonized meanings. Mapping could be modified flexibly according to the necessary of producers. Counter mapping is getting out of traditional practice of mapping, and transgression of historical rules. Additionally, it exposes the concealed networks of illogical power.
The one of aims of counter map is giving opportunity to cognize the obscure powers and it help to confront to them of powers in society.

The use of counter map is for analyzing network space and generating social changes, and it dismantle the political and economical logics by exposing social contradictions, artists and activists were created an art to express the contradictions since art is kind of intuitive expression visually. Dadaism, surrealism, and Fluxus are case in point. they used counter mapping as a tool of criticism to counter of social and political powers.

So why are we making map? in order to confront form of illogical control and expose the underlying mechanisms, so that is pinching out systems of oppression.

-Notes from Decolonization as Care

Understanding myself is a kind of ability which is tangible, realistic and making movement in this world. Additionally, knowing myself is important because it gives us a chance of recognition where I am. Since this recognizing system impacts the body and identity, so it would be self care.
This whole system is called the methodology of intersectionality.

Additionally, if we understand ourselves and the system, we should investigate all the stuff we are using daily such as code, rule, and programming, because those are also required for intersectionality. Especially if some educational institutes use this intersectional cognition, they have to consider diversity. Not only just one norm in certain stuff. For example, the peach color of crayon indicated skin color, so it required diversity.

The intersectional approach needs time, criticality. Like this context, Doing decolonization means the approach of using modernity and modern coloniality within capitalism.

Specifically, the way of decolonization is understanding culture. Understanding culture is the method of how we think about this world. So If culture is flexible recognition also. Will be changed.
When we recognize that we are one who keeps an unfair system, we are the one who can control the system.

Intersectionality has an important part that is self recognition, knowledge and reclamation are key. Intersectionality focuses on. Alienation and help to move. As self care, we might recognize decolonization/

Once we recognize that we are in a controlled system, we will organize experiences of intersectional, These are the ways of cognition as self care.

1: first we searching the cases in each life(=so we can make 3 cases), and express hidden capitalism in a way that's comfortable for each of us ( like video, 3d)
And then as a result, Three formats combined and presented in audio visuals.

The ideas of the way of expression

-1: create Social media and upload each works : as a result, hand in the recorded screen

-2: Filming one main character, remove the background with a green screen, and putting each one's work in the background.

-3: Illustrate parts of the map of Rotterdam, such as bookstores and department stores, and when we click there, can see how they penetrate our unconscious mind and promote self-care by playing each works

=> We selected second way as a final result.

Research of chosen format

-we chose the Green-screen with performer to combine each cases as one video. So I searched some references which used green screen and acting together.

Edited Storyline draft

Audio : Yeoni Video: Keö, Hyo

Audio: Describing various intangible self-care, using dynamic different sounds, rather than showing one specific self-care. The background sound starts with a very relaxed atmosphere in order to show typical self-care. As the capitalism sounds added, dynamic beat is overlapped as a climax.

Video: video will be divided three parts according to background music
#1: The soft motional effect begin as an intro on the black background with relaxed sound ( to remind the meditation, because typical self care is generally imaged the scene of meditation and inner peace)

#2: The performer's foot appears with Hyo's video which is representing how the influence of public architecture affects human’s self care metaphorically in capitalism. The performer's shoes will continue walking like finding somewhere can sit for rest. (The sound continue playing and the capitalism sound is added gradually)

#3: The last scene will be switched with Keö’s video, which is a collection of famous slogans which were used in advertisements targeting to self-care. The performer's hand motions mean like finding and searching informations about self care by using smartphone under the pack of slogans. ( As a climax, the sound tone up and overlaid all sound at the same time)

Video experimentation and architecture film research

The eye contact performance meaning reference

When two or more individuals talk, the person that talks is used to being looked at. Therefore, making eye contact can make other people expect conversation. Discussing eye contact is actually quite difficult because any attempt to categorize the degree (of sustained contact or measure of directness) and the nature of the eye contact is nearly guaranteed to contain a lot of descriptors derived from one's own cultural predisposition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_contact

Counter mapping reserch: https://medium.com/thewildones/robert-macfarlane-on-counter-mapping-as-nature-writing-method-929353978ee9

The video experiment for #1 (meditation)

First storyline draft

In the early part of sound, it remind of meditation with calm atmosphere. To make sure the image of rumination, we decided to add some illustration which can be suited with the sound and meditation. So I searched this, and chakra is kind of typical and definite image of meditation.

Above screenshot images are the first trial of green-screen based on early draft.
In the early process of storyline, We reflected various feedbacks. Through the reflections, We dug out some points that the performer's identity is still ambiguous and how colors would affect to video. To make sure the clear metaphor for our original purpose and intentions, we changed the storyline of performance to the other ways.

Changed Storyline and expirement

After the second feedback, we discussed how fill the meanings on the ambiguous parts of performer’s identity and colors, so I got some another idea from Yeoni’s past work and Shana Moulton's video work that are leading storyline by using only focused one stuff without appearance of human. For our project, we switched the human acting to the showing foot and hand motions like walking motion and using phone, focusing hand or foot would be better to understand easily.