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=== Desert Attunement === | === Desert Attunement === | ||
- | Field trip for locals and travellers to experientially attune to the desert environment. Through " | + | Field trip for locals and travellers to experientially attune to the desert environment. Through " |
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 " | 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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=== Thalient Lab === | === Thalient Lab === | ||
- | A field experiment formed around the question "what would a thalient lab in the desert look like?" (March | + | A field experiment formed around the question "what would a thalient lab in the desert look like?" (March |
Proposition: | Proposition: | ||
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Proposition: | Proposition: | ||
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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) | ||
- | 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 |
- | * 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 |