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+ | === Desert Attunement === | ||
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+ | Field trip for locals and travellers to experientially attune to the desert environment. Through " | ||
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+ | Questions: What could be the different ways and means to experience layered time in the desert? What if we refrain from speech and use the visceral language of experience? What does " | ||
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+ | ... 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 </ | ||
=== Thalient Lab === | === Thalient Lab === | ||
- | A field experiment formed around 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 |
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=== Attunement Walk === | === Attunement Walk === | ||
- | Dust & Shadow (audio)walk celebrating the arrival of desert spring. | + | [[audio walk|Dust & Shadow (audio)walk]] celebrating the arrival of desert spring |
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Location: Moeur Park \\ | Location: Moeur Park \\ | ||
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Meeting locale: [[https:// | Meeting locale: [[https:// | ||
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. \\ | ||
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=== Seasonal feast === | === Seasonal feast === | ||
- | The seasonal feast for the arrival of desert spring in a parallel | + | The seasonal feast for the arrival of desert spring in a parallel shade world, Shadow Belmont. (~March 19 2018 & 2019) |
- | Question: (...) | + | 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? |
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- | Prototype: Equinox 2018 (March 19, sunset) | + | 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, |
- | Feast: ~Equinox 2019 | + | |
- | could consist of the following elements: | + | Prototype: Equinox eve 2018 (March 19, sunset; Spring Equinox time: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 9:15 am in Sonoran Desert. |
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+ | Feast (?): ~Equinox eve 2019 (equinox time GMT: Mar 20, 21:58) | ||
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+ | In the dry and hot Sonoran desert, spring is a time of replenishment. A time to celebrate blossoming of plants and ideas alike. Days are slowly warming up, heralding the season of flowering cactus and renewed growth. The spring equinox - when light and darkness, the mundane and the sacred are (at least cosmically) equipoised - invokes a sense of balance, alignment and attunement. Time to celebrate the connections with all beings we share this season with... | ||
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+ | The feast could consist of the following elements: | ||
Durational attument through a range of embodied practices | Durational attument through a range of embodied practices | ||
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* trance-inducing music, drums, movement, dance | * trance-inducing music, drums, movement, dance | ||
* participation of human and non-human entities | * participation of human and non-human entities | ||
+ | * build cairns | ||
+ | * walk in spirals or through labyrinths (purposeful meandering) | ||
Atmosphere | Atmosphere | ||
- | * new life: leaves, blossoms | + | * new life: leaves, blossoms |
- | * green and yellow | + | * green, yellow, purple, red colours |
* freshness of spring and bitter energy of new growth | * freshness of spring and bitter energy of new growth | ||
* purity of white (' | * purity of white (' | ||
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* scattered long communal tables (with table cloths) | * scattered long communal tables (with table cloths) | ||
* stations for food prep | * stations for food prep | ||
+ | * rock formations that scatter/ | ||
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Storytelling, | Storytelling, | ||
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* economies of exchange, gifts, offerings | * economies of exchange, gifts, offerings | ||
* parting tokens | * parting tokens | ||
- | * totems | + | * totems, rainsticks |
- | * "may you walk in beauty" | + | |
Food & Drink | Food & Drink | ||
* breaking and sharing food together, abundance in collectivity | * breaking and sharing food together, abundance in collectivity | ||
- | * end of winter foods in the desert (to research foods of the place) | + | * end of winter foods in the desert (to research foods of the place) eg [[https:// |
* water | * water | ||
* fresh, green, bitter | * fresh, green, bitter |