Put into new groups and tasked to create a new understanding of our mission as the Foundations Research group, we compiled a list, as a group, of places to explore, strategies to research the places, and ways to obstruct the systems in place in these places. The group had varying ideas about how rigid the possibilities of each lister were, which ended up in impromptu conversations over Google Docs.
Our finished compiled lists:
16 Places to Explore
All possible afterlives
Paris Catacombs
The back of our eyelids
The Colosseum
Our infinite conscience
The bottom of the ocean
The foundations room
Cyberspace
Every corner of every room that we walk into – top to bottom
A music room during band practice
A Museum
Crowded mall
Somewhere after closing
A graveyard or mausoleum
Somewhere quiet
A Library
New York
Old York
Atlantis
Treasure Planet
Treasure Island
Nicolas Cage
Camelot
Mordor
Hospitals
The abandoned house near the wellness center
32 Strategies of Research
Staring for prolonged periods of time
Ask other people (get history, stories, etc.)
Blindfold ourselves and feel around
Measure distances in fingers and toes
Listen to all the noises while sitting in the middle of an area
Notice different smells when moving from room to room
Do the same research at different times of the day
Put finger on a line and follow it until it ends
Hold hands and walk around blindfolded
Ask someone to take you around
Call someone who knows the space and have them tour you through without using the words “right”, “left”, and “straight”
Draw or take pictures of every room
Get a selfie with people or objects in the space
Take rubbings of each surface
Catalog every color
Count people alone and people in a group
Google it
How many people are wearing the color blue?
Can you make eye contact with someone through the bathroom stall doors?
What could you steal from the area in that exact moment?
What are the floors made out of
Find all possible escape routes as soon as you enter a room
Ask everyone there where to find a bathroom
Place as many stickers around the room without getting caught
Count how often people swear
Face away and have someone else describe the object/place
Do you consider the art on the walls tacky?
How many people walk by you in 3 minutes
Quickdraws of everything
Can you steal a table?
Consensual Sex. With whomever you see. It’s research.
Start a new religion/cult, prey on the feeble minded to see how easily people are manipulated
Follow people around and describe all of their movements out loud to someone on your phone
Kill yourself in order to find out if there is an afterlife
Sell your soul to the devil for ultimate knowledge of everything
8 Public Disruptions of Systems
We all lay down on a road or in a hallway and get in people’s way
All stand in front of entryways
Paint road lines on the side of buildings
Begin conversing in different languages while on the phone with telemarketers
Pretend to be a worker there and tell people false information about the place
Put out signs that do not relate to the area, like a wet floor sign on a shag rug
Hold seances in delivery rooms
Publicly declare that all of the clothes on your body are for sale
Say “f*** off, I’m an art student” to your parents when they ask what you’ve accomplished so far
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