How To Be An Explorer Of The World

Portable Life/Art Museum

Keri SmithSpeaker : Kwon Osung

Table Of Contents

How To Use This Book

Explorations

Setting Up A Showing For Your Museum

How To Use This Book

1. Read In Any Order2. All Exercises Are Open To Interpretation3. Feel Free To Add, Alter, Or Ignore4. There Are No Rules, Merely Suggestions5. Treat Everything As An Experiment6. Start With Whatever Makes You Feel A

Twinge Of Excitement

How To Be An Explore Of The World

1. Always Be Looking2. Everything Alive & Animate3. Everything Is Interesting4. Alter Your Course Often5. Observe For Long Durations6. Document Your Findings In A Variety Of

Ways7. Observe Movement8. Trace Things Back To Their Origins9. Use All Of The Senses

Is That Too Vague?

Exploration #1

Right Where You Are Sitting Write ten things about where you are

sitting right now that you hadn’t noticed when you sat down

Use your senses, Do not censor The aspects of things that are most

important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity

Exploration #2

Archaeological Dig Collect object that relate to your

childhood or inspire memories Re-create objects from your childhood

using found objects or readily available materials

Playing with the objects can transform their meaning in interesting ways and bring things into the realm of imagination

Exploration #3

Arrangements Go out and collect any item you can find

in abundance come up with as many different ways of

displaying and arranging them as possible

Try to think of things you’ve never considered before

When You work with a material, it’s not just the leaf

Exploration #4

Non-Linear Life Create icons for your life activities.

Document them on a chart. Try changing the order of things

Close observation of a single subject is the kind of work that happens less and less these days

Glued to computer and TV screens, we have forgotten how to look at the natural world

Setting Up A Showing For Your Museum

1. Choosing A Space

2. Display methods

3. Sending out invitations

The End