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 === Thalient Lab === === Thalient Lab ===
  
-A field experiment aiming to find answers the question "what would a thalient lab in the desert look like?" +A field experiment aiming to find answers the question "what would a thalient lab in the desert look like?" (8-18 March 2018)
  
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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)+Prototype: Equinox 2018 (March 19 from 5PM) 
 +Feast: ~Equinox 2019 
  
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 +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
  
-=== Book ===+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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