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 === Seasonal feast === === Seasonal feast ===
  
-(e.g. a speculative open air museum with stories and artifacts suggesting alternative myths, lifestyles and ecosystems)+ 
 +The seasonal feast for the arrival of desert spring could consist of the following elements: 
 + 
 +Durational attument through a range of embodied practices 
 +  * Unfolding (meditation on budding, warming, thawing) 
 +  * Long and slow attunement meditations 
 +  * "Passover" 
 +  * from meditative to ecstatic/dionisian attunement (and back again) 
 +  * trance-inducing music, drums, movement, dance 
 +  * participation of human and non-human entities 
 + 
 +Atmosphere 
 +  * new life: leaves, blossoms 
 +  * green and yellow colour 
 +  * freshness of spring and bitter energy of new growth 
 +  * purity of white ('sacrificial virgins'
 +  * waves of pleasantness punctuated with being thrown out of the comfort zone 
 +  * scent: mesquite incense, scents of the desert 
 + 
 +Architectural elements 
 +  * layering 
 +  * shade and shadows 
 +  * desert wabi-sabi 
 +  * (cotton) banners or other markers of place 
 +  * scattered long communal tables (with table cloths) 
 +  * stations for food prep 
 + 
 +Storytelling, guiding 
 +  * Matriarch (a gentle holding of the space for ceremony) 
 +  * Reading and stories in different voices 
 +  * Symbolism of new myths 
 +  * Attuning harmonics 
 +  * Maps here/there 
 +  * 4Cs of Arizona (new fetishes) 
 + 
 +Blessings and offerings 
 +  * economies of exchange, gifts, offerings 
 +  * parting tokens 
 +  * totems 
 +  * "may you walk in beauty" (navajo) 
 + 
 + 
 +Food & Drink 
 +  * breaking and sharing food together, abundance in collectivity 
 +  * end of winter foods in the desert (to research foods of the place) 
 +  * water 
 +  * fresh, green, bitter 
 +  * figs, olives, prickly pear, oranges/lemons (? not native but thriving) 
 +  * preserved, dried, smoked, fermented, dessicated 
 +  * lamb or cattle (with consent!) 
 +  * tea from local herbs and medicinal plants 
 +  * mezcal, pulque, tequila..
 + 
 + 
 +(This proposition could be produced as an actual feast or a speculative open air museum with stories and artifacts suggesting alternative myths, lifestyles and ecosystems)
  
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 === Book === === Book ===
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 +== Commonplace booklets ==
 +
 +Spring 2018 (copy ready beginning of feb, published before March 24)
 +  * fieldnotes 1 & 2 (foam)
 +  * backstory/stories (foam)
 +    * existing examples and their shadows, parallel worlds, hints and rumours (lct)
 +  * quotes from D&S [[resonances|ecosystem]] and annotated bibliography (all)
 +  * photos and diagrams (foam)
 +
 +Summer 2018
 +  * fieldnotes 3 - thalient lab, walk (foam)
 +  * research on plants, foods, communities, rituals... (all)
 +  * lists (ron)
 +
 +
 +== Larger publication ==
 +
 +Spring 2019
 +
 +Experiment/proposition on how to create a new world...
  
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