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+=== Desert Attunement ===
+Field trip for locals and travellers to experientially attune to the desert environment, through practice-based experiments with layered time, durational desert abiding, heterogeneous listening, material wonder & wander, solitude and (in)difference etc.
+Questions: How do we attune to the desert without falling in the trap of dualisms as wilderness/civilisation, urban/desert, etc. What could be the different ways and means to experience layered time in the desert? What would a contemporary form of desert geomancy be like? What does "brutal mysticism" in the desert look like? What if we refrain from speech and use the visceral language of experience?
+Proposition:  We need time to land and arrive in the desert before making any interventions. Experiential attunement to the desert environment is an imperative. We must tread lightly and see the desert with new eyes. We can observe and weave threads of connection with other people and places.
+<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 ===
 A field experiment formed around the question "what would a thalient lab in the desert look like?" (March 8-18 2018)
-<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>
 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