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| ==== Propositions ==== | ==== Experiments ==== |
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| | A collection of experiments as embodied manifestations of specific propositions: |
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| <blockquote>[T]he importance of propositions is not limited to matters of truth and falsity. Language is used to evoke attention to features of the world that another person may be missing. Perhaps someone wants me to look up at a branch in a nearby tree. She has propositional feelings of a rare bird being there. Her interest may be in my entertaining the same proposition, but the most effective method may be just to point with a certain expression on her face, or to say “look quick” with some excitement. These gestures may lead to the result better than the sober statement that there is a rare bird there. - Giorgias Romero </blockquote> | <blockquote>[T]he importance of propositions is not limited to matters of truth and falsity. Language is used to evoke attention to features of the world that another person may be missing. Perhaps someone wants me to look up at a branch in a nearby tree. She has propositional feelings of a rare bird being there. Her interest may be in my entertaining the same proposition, but the most effective method may be just to point with a certain expression on her face, or to say “look quick” with some excitement. These gestures may lead to the result better than the sober statement that there is a rare bird there. - Giorgias Romero </blockquote> |
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| A collection of Dust & Shadow propositions, to be conducted as embodied (public) experiments. | |
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| === Thalient Lab === | === Thalient Lab === |
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| A field experiment aiming to find answers the question "what would a thalient lab in the desert look like?" (8-18 March 2018) | A field experiment formed around the question "what would a thalient lab in the desert look like?" (March 8-18 2018) |
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| | <blockquote>I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the self merges with a non-human world and yet somehow survives still intact, individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock. -Edward Abbey </blockquote> |
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| | Proposition: There are ways and means to communicate with entities we share the planet with. At all times there are other beings listening. We can hear each other if we pay attention. One of the means to establish contact could be through technological mediation |
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| {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/34853353022/in/album-72157681429258454/}}\\ | {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/34853353022/in/album-72157681429258454/}}\\ |
| === 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 in a panpsychic tradition. (March 24 2018) |
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| | Question: What arts become possible if we widen the 'sentience spectrum' and emphasize experience and interaction with diverse beings? |
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| | Proposition: We need a new form of geomancy to align with the reality of the desert. To better attune to our surroundings we can practice the craft of silence and heterogeneous hearing and become human receptors and listening devices. Deep listening and attunement can help us uncover sacred refugia and wild sanctuaries in urban surroundings of the everyday. |
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| Location: Moeur Park \\ | Location: Moeur Park \\ |
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| Meeting locale: [[https://goo.gl/maps/oA1hYbeNuR92|North Shore Volley Ball courts]], Tempe Town Lake \\ | Meeting locale: [[https://goo.gl/maps/oA1hYbeNuR92|North Shore Volley Ball courts]], Tempe Town Lake \\ |
| Park on E Lake View Drive under the 202 highway overpass. The walk will begin under the overpass. \\ | Park on E Lake View Drive under the 202 highway overpass. The walk will begin under the overpass. \\ |
| === Seasonal feast === | === Seasonal feast === |
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| The seasonal feast for the arrival of desert spring in a parallel "shade world" | The seasonal feast for the arrival of desert spring in a parallel shade world, Shadow Belmont. (~March 19 2018 & 2019) |
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| Prototype: Equinox 2018 (March 19, sunset) | Questions: How to translate animist attitudes into worldviews compatible with contemporary techno-materialist societies? How to (re)animate pre-modern sensibilities without dualisms of light/dark, good/evil, love/power? What would be celebrated in a regenerative eutopia in the desert? |
| Feast: ~Equinox 2019 | |
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| could consist of the following elements: | Proposition: It is possible to transform zombie utopias into fertile compost for regenerative eutopias. Myth-making and reactivating myths can animate inert cultural, geological and architectural markers. Conviviality and kinship includes diverse entities and different lenses of interrelation. We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, shinto, shamanism, etc. |
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| | Prototype: Equinox eve 2018 (March 19, sunset; equinox time: GMT Mar 20, 16:15) |
| | Feast: ~Equinox eve 2019 (equinox time GMT: Mar 20, 21:58) |
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| | The feast could consist of the following elements: |
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| Durational attument through a range of embodied practices | Durational attument through a range of embodied practices |
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| (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) | (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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| {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/24209031777/in/album-72157681429258454/}}\\ | {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/24209031777/in/album-72157681429258454/}}\\ |
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