| Both sides previous revision Previous revision Next revision | Previous revision Next revisionBoth sides next revision |
| dust_and_shadow:experiments [2018-01-27 01:46] – maja | dust_and_shadow:experiments [2018-03-17 02:52] – maja |
|---|
| |
| {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/39069831191/in/album-72157681429258454/}}\\ | {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/39069831191/in/album-72157681429258454/}}\\ |
| | |
| | === Desert Attunement === |
| | |
| | Field trip for locals and travellers to experientially attune to the desert environment. Through "durational desert abiding" we'll explore the embodied sense of layered time, observing & listening, material wonder & wander, solitude & (in)difference. (March 7-12) |
| | |
| | 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 "brutal mysticism" in the desert look like? |
| | |
| | Proposition: We need to spend time in the desert to experientially attune to the environment. Communing rather than examining. We can attune to the desert without romanticising wilderness or drawing a hard line between the desert and urban civilisation. We tread lightly and see the desert with new eyes. |
| | |
| | |
| | <blockquote>... do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast….a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards. |
| | |
| | ... 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> |
| |
| === Thalient Lab === | === Thalient Lab === |
| |
| A field experiment formed around the question "what would a thalient lab in the desert look like?" (March 8-18 2018) | A field experiment formed around the question "what would a thalient lab in the desert look like?" (March 12-23 2018) |
| |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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. | 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. |
| |
| | <blockquote> Solvitur ambulando... </blockquote> |
| |
| {{:dust_and_shadow:d_s_walk.jpg?600 |}} | {{:dust_and_shadow:d_s_walk.jpg?600 |}} |
| 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? | 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? |
| |
| Proposition: It is possible to transform zombie utopias into fertile compost for regenerative eutopias. We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, shinto, shamanism, etc. Conviviality and kinship includes beyond human relationships. Myth-making and reactivating myths can animate inert cultural, geological and architectural markers. | 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. |
| |
| Prototype: Equinox eve 2018 (March 19, sunset; equinox time: GMT Mar 20, 16:15) | Prototype: Equinox eve 2018 (March 19, sunset; equinox time: GMT Mar 20, 16:15) |
| * 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 (some Sonoran [[http://www.arizonensis.org/sonoran/fieldguide/plantae/sonoran_desert_flora.html|desert flora]]) |
| * green and yellow colour | * 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 ('sacrificial virgins') | * purity of white ('sacrificial virgins') |
| * 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/focus sunlight |
| | |
| |
| Storytelling, guiding | Storytelling, guiding |
| * economies of exchange, gifts, offerings | * economies of exchange, gifts, offerings |
| * parting tokens | * parting tokens |
| * totems | * totems, rainsticks |
| * "may you walk in beauty" (navajo) | |
| |
| |
| 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://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/culture/health-wellness/spring-equinox-the-desert-is-reborn/|cholla buds]]), nopalitos, yucca, ocotillo and palo verde flowers (tea) as well as dried/preserved seeds (for eating and planting), herbs, grains and flowers; pynion pine nuts, , chia seeds, amaranth, sumac, sunflower seeds, mesquite flour, agave and aloe vera juice...) |
| * water | * water |
| * fresh, green, bitter | * fresh, green, bitter |
98.172.99.4