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==First Attempt== | |||
The Komboucha-Project is a collaborative experiment in which our world is changed through individual actions. | The Komboucha-Project is a collaborative experiment in which our world is changed through individual actions. | ||
What is Komboucha? | |||
Komboucha is a special drink that is made by combining usual tea with a specific kind of bacteria. | Komboucha is a special drink that is made by combining usual tea with a specific kind of bacteria. | ||
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In a simple procedure the Scoby can be reproduced and recultivated to brew another batch of Comboucha. | In a simple procedure the Scoby can be reproduced and recultivated to brew another batch of Comboucha. | ||
The Comboucha-Project takes advantage of this simple reproduction method in order to reach big | |||
The procedure | |||
The Comboucha-Project takes advantage of this simple reproduction method in order to reach a big amount of people, <br> | |||
to spread their ideas and to connect them among each other. | to spread their ideas and to connect them among each other. | ||
Everything begins with the implementation of a first brewing process.<br> | Everything begins with the implementation of a first brewing process.<br> | ||
After the corresponding Scoby is big enough it will be cut in four pieces and distributed to four <br> | After the corresponding Scoby is big enough it will be cut in four pieces and distributed to four different people <br>along with an online brewing manual.<br> | ||
These four people then grow their own Scoby to make one single batch of Comboucha.<br> | These four people then grow their own Scoby to make one single batch of Comboucha.<br> | ||
The brewing process lasts for ten to fifteen days.<br> | The brewing process lasts for ten to fifteen days.<br> | ||
During that time the participants think of their contribution for changing society as they want it to evolve. <br> | During that time the participants think of their contribution for changing society as they want it to evolve. <br> | ||
When the Comboucha is ready they record themselves confessing to their planned action before drinking the tea.<br> | When the Comboucha is ready they record themselves confessing to their planned action before drinking the tea.<br> | ||
The video of this little | Drinking the tea is a symbolical act of finishing the brewing and the personal thinking process. | ||
Each of | <br> It is a kind of internalization act that proves the participants belief in his "vision of change".<br> | ||
The video of this little ceremony is then committed to the projects youtube channel.<br> | |||
Each of the participants now fully grown Scobys is then again cut in four pieces and given to four different peoples along with<br> the online brewing manual and everything starts from the beginning.<br> | |||
Every participant | Network and Discourse | ||
1)<br> | |||
Every participant gets in touch with a leftover of every previous brewing process.<br> | |||
Being reproduced and transferred to more and more people the Scoby gains and multiplies „memory of confession“. <br> | Being reproduced and transferred to more and more people the Scoby gains and multiplies „memory of confession“. <br> | ||
This memory draws an invisible connection line between the participants and their visions of change.<br> | This memory draws an invisible connection line between the participants and their "visions of change".<br> | ||
2)<br> | |||
Every participant contributes his ceremony video to the projects youtube channel.<br> | |||
Here people can discover and discuss each others ideas and beliefs. | |||
The Projects Aim | |||
It is said that big changes begin with small steps.<br> | It is said that big changes begin with small steps.<br> | ||
If that is true then we should | If that is true then we should think of individually feasible strategies for change and implement them on a personal level.<br> | ||
Thereby it is very important that we again become aware of our responsibility towards our environment and our own actions.<br> | Thereby it is very important that we again become aware of our responsibility towards our environment and our own actions.<br> | ||
This reminder is what the Comboucha-Project tries to achieve.<br> | This reminder is what the Comboucha-Project tries to achieve.<br> | ||
It considers the believe that freedom of choice and the power of an individual act can be used to create an environment of change.<br> | It considers the believe that freedom of choice and the power of an individual act can be used to create an environment of change.<br> | ||
==Further Progress== | |||
SCOBY, an assemblage of micro organisms, is the protagonist of several video messages: | |||
Stage 1: "Introduction" (the viewer got a jar including a piece of Scoby and a youtube link)<br> | |||
SCOBY speaks (directly to the viewer) about different perspectives on "the world" and our everyday environment.<br> It encourages the viewer to cooperate for getting an insight in a different view on things. | |||
Stage 2: "Getting Started" (the viewer replied to the message, he is now a participant)<br> | |||
SCOBY tells the participant how to grow a new Scoby body from the piece floating in the jar. | |||
Stage 3: "Exercise 1"<br> | |||
SCOBY comes up with a series of exercises that shall increase the participants sensual awareness. | |||
Stage 4: "Exercise 2"<br> | |||
SCOBY comes up with a series of exercises that shall increase the participants sensual awareness. | |||
Stage 5: "Exercise 3"<br> | |||
SCOBY comes up with a series of exercises that shall increase the participants sensual awareness. | |||
Stage 6: "Exercise 4"<br> | |||
SCOBY comes up with a series of exercises that shall increase the participants sensual awareness. | |||
Stage 7: "Exercise 5"<br> | |||
SCOBY comes up with a series of exercises that shall increase the participants sensual awareness. | |||
Stage 8: "Vision of Change"<br> | |||
Now the participant is prepared to take the last step.<br> | |||
He is asked to think of a specific vision of change for the next three days. | |||
Stage 9: "Ceremony"<br> | |||
The participant has decided for a vision of change.<br> | |||
SCOBY introduces the procedure of a ceremony that will give the participant the ability to make his/her vision become reality.<br> | |||
In the end SCOBY finally explains the participant how to keep the project going.<br> | |||
(How to produce four new starter kits for a new circuit of the procedure - "back to stage 1.") | |||
==Exhibition== | |||
The BioArt exhibition in Berlin will include an excerpt of the whole process. | |||
Part 1:<br> | |||
SCOBY appears on a screen and speaks directly to the viewer.<br> | |||
It talks about different perspectives on "the world" and our everyday environment.<br> | |||
The viewer is asked to participate, which means to join a 6 hours - collaboration with SCOBY. | |||
Part 2:<br> | |||
SCOBY introduces the participant to three simple exercises.<br> | |||
These exercises are performed inside the exhibition space.<br> | |||
They invisibly enable the participants "sensitization mode".<br> | |||
This mode lasts for six hours. | |||
Part 3:<br> | |||
The participant is now prepared to develop and apply a personal vision of change.<br> | |||
This has to be done within the next six hours - before the sensitization mode ends.<br> | |||
The applied vision of change should remain implemented for the longest time possible.<br> | |||
The participant documents his change and shares the picture/video/sound file online by tagging it with a specific # tag. | |||
Everything will be set up on a table including a screen, headphones and a media player.<br> | |||
Besides that there will be a glass jar holding a piece of Scoby and some liquid. | |||
==Inspiration== | |||
- [http://www.amazon.de/Wer-sich-verändert-die-Welt/dp/3466310296 Christope Andre: Wer sich verändert, verändert die Welt]<br> | |||
- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_cake Wikipedia: Hermann Cake] <br> | |||
- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment Wikipedia: Age of Enlightenment] <br> | |||
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om8zDkfFVp0 How Quantum Mind States Create Better Decision Makers]<br> | |||
- [http://www.instructables.com/id/how-to-brew-kombucha-at-home/step3/Get-all-the-other-kombucha-making-supplies-and-cle/ Instructables: How to brew your own Komboucha] | |||
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- [http://www.kunstsammlung.de/en/get-involved/labor/archive/olafur-eliasson.html Olafur Eliasson: Dein Ausstellungsguide]<br> | |||
==Structure== | |||
[[File:KombouchaAblauf1.jpg]]<br> | |||
-> first attempt of setting up the procedure<br><br> | |||
[[File:incomeoutcomeprocess.jpg]] <br> | |||
-> general idea of the procedure | |||
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==sketches== | |||
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[[File:Sketch_Video_2.jpg]]<br> | |||
-> exhibition video | |||
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[[File:position_sketch_1.jpg]]<br> | |||
-> position for video 3 - 5 | |||
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[[File:Sketch_Ausstellung_1.jpg]]<br> | |||
-> installation / exhibition | |||
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[[File:Kombou_1_exhib.jpg]]<br> | |||
-> growing SCOBY for the exhibition | |||