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=== Desert Attunement === | === Desert Attunement === |
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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. | 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) |
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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? | 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? |
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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. | 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. |
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=== Thalient Lab === | === Thalient Lab === |
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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) |
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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 | 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. |
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| <blockquote> Solvitur ambulando... </blockquote> |
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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) |
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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 |
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Storytelling, guiding | Storytelling, guiding |
* parting tokens | * parting tokens |
* totems | * totems |
* "may you walk in beauty" (navajo) | |
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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 |