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dust_and_shadow:experiments [2018-02-06 01:11] – majadust_and_shadow:experiments [2018-03-18 18:21] – maja
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 === Desert Attunement === === 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.+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?  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. 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. +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 ===
  
-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 
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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. 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 |}}
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 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.   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; Spring Equinox time: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 9:15 am in Sonoran Desert. 
-Feast: ~Equinox eve 2019 (equinox time GMT: Mar 20, 21:58)+) 
 +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... 
  
 The feast could consist of the following elements: The feast could consist of the following elements:
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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 (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')
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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/focus sunlight
 +
  
 Storytelling, guiding Storytelling, guiding
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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" (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
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