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- | ==== Propositions | + | ==== Experiments |
- | A collection of Dust & Shadow propositions, | + | A collection of experiments |
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=== Thalient Lab === | === Thalient Lab === | ||
- | A field experiment | + | A field experiment |
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=== Attunement Walk === | === Attunement Walk === | ||
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Dust & Shadow (audio)walk celebrating the arrival of desert spring. | Dust & Shadow (audio)walk celebrating the arrival of desert spring. | ||
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The participants are invited to attune, to experience diverse forms of listening, and to practice a geomancy for the age of climate chaos. Walking in silence through the Sonoran dust in the shadow of civilisation, | The participants are invited to attune, to experience diverse forms of listening, and to practice a geomancy for the age of climate chaos. Walking in silence through the Sonoran dust in the shadow of civilisation, | ||
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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 in a parallel "shade world" |
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+ | Prototype: Equinox 2018 (March 19, sunset) | ||
+ | Feast: ~Equinox 2019 | ||
- | === Book === | + | 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 | ||
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+ | * from meditative to ecstatic/ | ||
+ | * trance-inducing music, drums, movement, dance | ||
+ | * participation of human and non-human entities | ||
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+ | Atmosphere | ||
+ | * new life: leaves, blossoms | ||
+ | * green and yellow colour | ||
+ | * freshness of spring and bitter energy of new growth | ||
+ | * purity of white (' | ||
+ | * waves of pleasantness punctuated with being thrown out of the comfort zone | ||
+ | * scent: mesquite incense, scents of the desert | ||
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+ | 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 | ||
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+ | Storytelling, | ||
+ | * Matriarch (a gentle holding of the space for ceremony) | ||
+ | * Reading and stories in different voices | ||
+ | * Symbolism of new myths | ||
+ | * Attuning harmonics | ||
+ | * Maps here/ | ||
+ | * 4Cs of Arizona (new fetishes) | ||
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+ | Blessings and offerings | ||
+ | * economies of exchange, gifts, offerings | ||
+ | * parting tokens | ||
+ | * totems | ||
+ | * "may you walk in beauty" | ||
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+ | 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/ | ||
+ | * preserved, dried, smoked, fermented, dessicated | ||
+ | * lamb or cattle (with consent!) | ||
+ | * tea from local herbs and medicinal plants | ||
+ | * mezcal, pulque, tequila... | ||
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+ | (This experiment 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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