Archived Proposals

This is a proposal for an event at Temporary by Convivial Mechanics. We hope that it will be the first of an irregular series of fireside chats. The format will be simple. People will bring their own cushions to sit on. They will bring a snack to share. We will bring a pretend fireplace. There will be a conversation between two people that will open out into a roomwide discussion. We will livestream the chat and make the video available for posterity at the convivial mechanics website. The topics will be connected, in one way or another, to the idea that we are "stories all the way down".

The first fireside chat will test the format and, if it works, we will return to propose a full series.

The pilot will centre around the work of Bryan Alexander, and specifically his interest in uncanny valley memes, which you can find here. You can find out more than you will want to know about Bryan at bryanalexander.org. He is in Helsinki for a week and we want to hear what he has to say about the fact that "we haunt every medium we make".

The part of the host will be played by Owen Kelly.

1. to create a format for sharing ideas while eating snacks;
2. to provide a venue for different ways of approaching the idea that we have no self;
3. to bring together speakers and listeners who would not normally meet each other;
4. to arrange for the differences between speakers and listeners to melt away.

Tuesday, November 15, 17:05 - 19:25

academics, activists, anthropologists, apocalyptics, artists.

Hello everybody,

My name is Will van Twuijver and I would like to host a workshop some time in November in which I want to get a group of people together to start up a small manufacturing process. The idea is to set up a 'low-tech canning factory' that will process leftover food from different sources and put it in metal cans.
The workshop will contain: scavenging food, developing recipes, processing, canning and designing labels.
Hopefully enough people are interesting in participating!

Regards,
Will

The goals of this experiment to preserve food over a longer time that would have otherwise had gone to waste, channel streams of waste and use them to our advantage, to set up a low tech manufacturing process ad get some people together to have a fun day cooking some crazy recipes.

whole day workshop

10-20

After giving one of my friend a new haircut in the expression of her gratitude she gave me a Japanese lucky “beckoning cat” called maneki-neko. I've noticed that this small gesture made the whole interaction even more interesting and since then whoever ask me to cut his/her hair I ask back for non-monetary remuneration.

Around the same time I've watched "Withnail & I" after which the following quote stuck in my head: “I don’t advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hair are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NeBfY6U4n8)

From those two episodes, the idea of my new fictional business called "Aerial Hair" came into being (blessed by maneki-neko of course). The deal is simple: I cut your aerial hair and you pay in return with everything but money. It can be a story telling, massage, Temps transfer, whatever else.... For those still not convinced I have to add that beside non-professional cutting skills I have a strong sense of aesthetics too.

To find out if hair are our aerials.

18 October 2.30pm - 9pm

Those willing to cut their hair

After 4 days of smiling faces, group hugs, psycho-somatic good-will & pro-tolerance mouthwash spirits, it is time gather again to get ready for that which is ahead, unknown not yet calculated. We offer a temporary transition point where your molecules can mingle with the interior-courtyards of the inner city. No-one knows what is going to happen, and how the recent Pixelache Helsinki 2016 Festival is going to affect you in the long run. We hope forever. That there is an impressed mark, not a stain. Celebrate with us in this experiment that is festival after-party.

Merge back into your previous life, changed. But holding a key interface for empathy.

Sunday 25th September, 20.30-23.30

Those who have been Pixelaching.

A workshop of vocal improvisation, where we are going to search for and make reasearch of different body parts, like eyes, ears, armpits, knees etc. This happens vocally.

To have fun, to broaden one's vocal sphere, to make research for a sound sculpture I'm planning, Electric Guy. I wouldn't like to do it alone.

5 times 2 hours, between 21 Nov-23 Dec, starting on Monday 21st of Nov at 19-21.

Those who are interested in using their voices not only for talking.

Are your hoarding photos, SMS messages and other documents into your mobile-phone? Deleting precious memories can be hard. Be advised that digital materials is not protected against time! On the Digital-to-Tangible (D2T) clinic we’ll convert important (and less important) digital files into formats which have the potential to last trough the ages. Bring your mobile-phone, let's select your most precious digital content and convert it into A6 sized postcards manually.

Materials are be provided
The Clinic is hosted by
Eero Yli-Vakkuri (Ore.e Refineries)

The workshop will be documented and is part of Rescue Museum, a project by Päivi Raivio in which skip dived items & trash are archived in a fictional museum. The items are archived and documented using experimental methods. The project results in a book "Pocket Museum" in early 2017.

We want to reverse the museum practice of digitising archives and play with the idea of archiving reproductable items. We also seek to explore what are the precious but untangible items in risk of disappearing into a digital cloud and what their physical format would be like.

Thursday 1.12. 18.00 - 20.00

Open for all, in collaboration with artist Eero Yli-vakkuri

Hackteria's Empathetic Taxidermia Lab is a durational, collaborative and explorative experimentation on taxidermy with Marc Dusseiller aka dusjagr, a co-founder of the Hackteria network. The aim of the lab is to investigate artistic practices and traditional craft with living/non-living media to reconnect us with our ecosystem and ourselves.

Taxidermy is the art of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of animals for display, study or just simply preservation. It has been around for centuries in various implementations from hobbyists' anthropomorhic representations of imagined human happiness, to contemporary artists.

The pre-festival lab will be set up between 8th and 20th September at Temporary, a newly opened Helsinki's sandbox for practice-based research into experimental interactive formats. During these days several special events on DIY taxidermy will be held.

http://hackteria.org/wiki/Taxidermia_HEL2016

Mentor
Marc Dusseiller aka dusjagr is a nomadic researcher and workshopologist. He is part of the Center for Alternative Coconut Research and co-founder of SGMK and the Hackteria network. Before travelling the world for making DIY / DIWO laboratories for creative biological experimentation with living media, Marc entered the world of DIY electronics, designing printed circuit boards for synthesizers and organizing workshops and festivals mostly in Zürich. He also loves coconuts.

http://me.dusjagr.guru

* Create a laboratory environement for people to join, learn, experiment and play.
* Eplore new materials/chemicals in preservation and taxidermia.
* Combine basic electronics and traditional taxidermia.
* Hack methodologies from taxidermia to create other stuff.
* Bring together different expertises to co-create a taxidermia 2.0 workshop kit.
* Having a good time at Temporary.
* Initiate a new research node on speculative alien fecal preservation within the astrobiological department of the secret space program of the association of experimental electronics (KOELSE).

Throughout 8 - 20. September 2016

Naturalists, Cyberneticists, Hackers, Crafters and Cooks

Temporary aim to run as it's core experiment Open Days, which will provide regular activity during daytime hours, on weekdays.

Open Days are nothing more than an opening of Temporary's doors to anyone who is looking for a creative space to use, and to share what limited resources we have. Temporary will be open during regular hours, let's say something like 10:00 - 16:30, and then with one day per week in the evening for those who aren't necessarily able to attend during working hours.

During these hours, anyone may come to Temporary and work on whatever they would like, alone or in collaboration with others. We have some tables, some chairs, a coffee machine, a small kitchen, and Internet access. Do your freelance work, have meetings with others, or just hang out. The issues of noise, crowdedness, costs, and sharing will be determined through practice.

The experiment is in seeing how this process will evolve and whether a true creative environment can be established (where Temporary can become a place to meet people, new or old, and to collaborate and generate new projects). As with all experiments at Temporary, participants will receive 10 Temps just for attending each day.

The final hour of the evening meeting each week (Tuesdays from 20:00 - 21:00?) will be a one-hour DANCE PARTY and also our weekly "meeting", where we will evaluate the previous week's activities and review pending proposals and collectively schedule experiments, deal with practicalities, etc. This will serve as the central administrative component of Temporary, and also we will dance during it. With a different DJ every week.

During each week's DANCE PARTY we can review how Open Days are going, on a week-to-week basis, and see if changes needs to be made to the structure.

To create a creative sandbox that allows maximum potential for participation without exploitation or being an administrative burden. To generate creative energy in Temporary by welcoming the most diverse possible collection of people to become acquainted with the physical venue and other users. To provide a mechanism for Temporary's users to earn Temps on a regular basis. To make the minimal necessary administrative efforts fun.

Monday, Wednesday-Friday 10:00 - 16:30; Tuesdays 14:30 - 21:00

All potential people who would possibly benefit from this environment