Participants: Gösta Ingvar Gabriel, Cale Johnson, Néhémie Strupler
Discussion about
- Techniques of the body can be excessive and "meaningless" outside the infrastructure ("bodybuilding")
- How are techniques transmitted?
- What is the definition of chaîne opératoire?
- Problem of the chaîne opératoire: It is a method with a strong focus on materiality & visibility.
Take-away questions:
What happen to the invisible parts of the technique in the chaîne opératoire (such as belief)?
- Is it possible to define an end of a technique or an end to a chaîne opératoire?
- How does language and description connect to the steps of the chaîne opératoire?
- Is the material world, the reconstruction of techniques and chaine opératoire misdirecting our view to a by-product?
