notes

Telephone notes, documentation Role Model project 2015.

I read about some artist a couple of years ago that did a residency in the office world. Let me look up his name….Shit, can't find it. Anyway, what I remember is that he collected post-its around the offices and researched in what way drawing is important in a world without art: the office discourse.
Saskia Janssen also collected other peoples drawing outside her own discourse, in her project with homeless people in Amsterdam in 2006-2008. In shelter Blaka Watra, she discovered that people there were drawing all the time. On notes, on the table surface, on the walls. She also invited the people at the shelter to collect all the so called careless drawings. She published them in an interesting publication: Blaka Watra Spiders, Saskia Janssen, Roma Publications 2009.

Blaka watra centre, picture by Janssen in her book.

My first three meetings with the nurses have past, and I can say there a few points that had my attention. Hands and language through hand gestures; the soft but firm touch of the woman hand with her clients. I have asked one nurse to collect all her telephone notes and doodles. But I also have a set up in mind where I document her on video when she is on the phone for an hour or so.