We share our research as exhibitions, performances and new tools.
Where do they appear?
We asked people where they imagine Flunstellas might appear..
Empty Streets
They might appear in derelict streets
Outside
Anywhere, outside more often and more visable at night-time
Old peoples home
It had been a busy day, I'd been trying to juggle keeping my family and my girlfriend happy, but just before I had been holding my Nans hand, I was quite calm. I was sat with my family, and we were feeding my Nanna some of her favourite Terry's Mis-Shape's when I thought I saw something hovering around her, like mist in my eyes, but it lit up the room. They moved around her a bit like slow motion mayflies, all trying to get the best spot. I looked around to see if anyone else could see it, and when I looked back they were gone.
In a meeting room
There was a tension in the room, as one of the lads kept trying to bully one of the teachers into giving him his pen back. One of the other lads was getting upset, and, it was just before the lad obsessed with his pen, was picked up and forcibly removed from the room. I felt a sharp pain in the right of my head, and saw a dark swirling movement, which went in circles, round and round, the square walls of the beige room. I could hear all these voices saying horrible cruel and personal things to everyone in the room.
Small moving dots in a pub
Funky Aliceband
Flunstellas work at higher energies than the low energy reality we percieve. You need a funky aliceband like Geodie laForge to see them.
Coersive Force
Sometimes we describe a "feeling" of tension in the air prior to a conflict - like the static which we experience prior to an electrical storm. I sense that environments in which coersive force and violence are an everyday occurence - such as the mobile police station pictured - will harbour particularly striking and potent emotional resonances.
What do they look like?
We asked people what they imagine our thoughts look like...
Waves of colour
There is a really nasty horrible feeling coming from this one. I was put in a really dark place before I drew this, so this is quite negative.
I just imagine it radiating out from someone, and you would see it, but you would feel it too. Llike waves of different colours.
Diferent shapes for diferent thoughts
i think flunstellas will look like lots of differant and random shapes because people have differant thoughts feelings and memories. so a happy memory thought or shape might just be a simple circle shape as a angry memory thought or feeling might be quite spikey.
Purple bubbles
I tihnk that there would be lots of Flunstellas linked to oneperson. I would imagine a Flunstella to be pale purple or blue because I think that these colours have connotations of curiousity or memory. They would be shaped like bubbles and would all float round a persons head, if you could see them. ;))
Pattern systems
Shapes and patterns floating around in space. almost fractal looking but not as intense. maybe more brainy people would have more complex patterns going on.
A horrible moving cloud
Higher & lower
I think that all of the emotions and memorys would apper in a flunstella but the less important ones would be faded out more . Happier ones would be higher up in the sky and more sad ones would be closer to the ground .
Hand Curve
Most strongly
I think that the ideas that would appear would be emotions that are felt most strongly by the people that are present int the environment.
Crystal Ball
I think they would look like at crystal ball, floating in the air above your head, and have whatever you are thinking of playing like a movie inside it and they would have a blue glow and be connected with sliver moving lines. The thing playing inside them would not be very clear, it would be very blurred and only the person thinking of it would be able to completly make it out.
Boring cubiods and hyperactive stars
'They could look like anything from boring cuboids to hyporactive stars and sheep.' Dr Sarah.They would look plain if it was a plain conversation. They would look exciting if it was a exciting conversation. Prf Ellie.
Blobby Shapes
Becky & Kyra think...
We Think...
emotions and memorys will all be different shapes depending on the emotion/memory
the colours will depend on weather the emotion/ memory is happy, sad etc
eg. happy emotions will be bright colours
sad memorys will be dark gloomy colours
Love Becky and Kyra xxx
What are they similar to?
We asked people what other phenomenon Flunstellas might be similar to..
Thought forms
I would like to mention something called THOUGHT FORMS,
these where depicted and explained be a theosophist ANNE BESSANT in a book by the same name.
in brief the theosophy society was started around 1880s by a mystic/charlaton called MADAM HELENA BLAVATSKY. she believed that the christian religion in her day and all other main world religions could be unified in that they all can be sourced back to the same ancient and mystic beginings.
this means that the society also encompasses science and exepts all belief systems yet explains how they borrowed or stole from sources such as the zorroastrians.
any ways check out this link its very new age, but the book itself is great for diagrams and images of what bessant believed you can see in the astral plane;
http://www.anandgholap.net/Thought_Forms-AB_CWL.htm
also the liverpool theosophy society meet regularly in quaker meeting house school lane- old ladies, tea and battenberg.
i very much enjoyed your confrence and would like to see more, also i dont have this book but i do have some others if your interested, i did my disertation on theosophy and abstract art what a laugh that was.
rhonda
Flamingos
These flamingos flocking in the apparent shape of a flamingo seem connected to the flunstella concept in spirit. The resemblance to a flamingo outline is very striking and, although scientifically explainable, it still suggests that the individual positioning and collective relations between the individual birds, when viewed from an outside perspective, could be communicating something of a higher order.
Busby Berkley
They might be like a Busby Berkly dance routine, in that they are lots of individuals moving quite hypnotically. Not sure if there is a choreographer though. Maybe with Flunstellas there is more than one choreographer?
See the YouTube clip below, it gets really interesting about 2 minutes 30 seconds in.
Bacteria Bubbles
On the one hand I think ideas and thoughts are very bacterial - especially those that link to language - they spread and grow, distributed by people - mutating and affecting each other. they can suffer from exposure, or overcrowding, depending on the envirnment of the bacterial culture.Another form of idea is a bubble - transluscent and very fragile, it needs to to float, free from close scrutiny and probing, if it is to survive and develop into something more substantial.
Augmented Reality Lego effects
I'm a child of the 80's, so when I think of Flunstellas, I can't help but see them as early 80's effects like the ones you would see in Young Sherlock Holmes or the Transformers cartoons.
There's a certain prettyness to the way that energy was depicted in all these films that I am still captivated by.
I thought of this when I saw this video of a Lego display booth using Augmented Reality to enchant the next generation of model builders, it's a great mix of A.R. & the Peppers Ghost illusion.
