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 === 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)
+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 2018)
 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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+=== dusted vinyl ===
+The field recordings and soundwalk condensed into a 12" vinyl record, consisting of two 18 minute tracks "Dust" and "Shadow". The record includes a selection of desert dust which can be used for further physical manipulation of the sound matter. Incomplete without surface noise.
+=== Library salon ===
+The Desert Salon in the Hayden library is envisaged as a "physical narrative". It is a space filled with objects and media collected together as fragments of a possible future scenario. In this case, it's a scenario for an alternative future of Phoenix with a somewhat Solar Punk inspired atmosphere. The design is intimate and contemplative, inviting deceleration, solidarity (with humans and other-than-humans), appreciation, care, elation and relief, without losing a sense of irreverence and resistance.
+In this scenario, the Hayden library still exists, but it is used slightly differently. It became a monastic entity for rethinking time and re-attuning the urban clock-time to the rhythms of the desert. It's a hybrid between a study space, listening bar, an intimate lounge room and an exploded publication. It is suggestive of a library in a speculative desert university, where Occult sciences, fictocriticism, coven studies and dust theory are common fields of study.
+Moodboard: https://www.pinterest.com/deziluzija/dust-shadow/ \\
+{{ :dust_and_shadow:20190715-d_s_library-design_guide.pdf |Design guide}}
+<blockquote>At best, the listening bar raises good questions about whether there might be an unrealized public-listening or group-listening ideal in a ritual as familiar as going out for a drink. (...) I understood something about the tactility and enlivening qualities of sound better than ever before: Sound can be a three-dimensional space in which to put your body, and in which your body may be acted upon and opened up, even when you are sitting still. I seemed to understand the physics of it: tones as standing waves, and me in the middle of them, one of them. Or, if you prefer the language of another sense, it was like seeing colors after knowing only grays. (...) As a natural consequence of hearing in that detail, I could also sense the physicality of the people making the music — their throats, hands, reflexes, sensibilities. (...) The room’s goldenrod curtains stay drawn, and its interior is unremarkably brown enough that you can turn your attention to the spectacular thing going on before and around you, which is sound.
+a total break in your waking hours. A cleaned window. An open window!
+[[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/dining/vinyl-records-listening-bar-kissaten.html|Ben Rattlif in NY Times]] </blockquote>
+The production of the vinyl and the Desert Salon in the Library has been awarded an [[https://ihr.asu.edu/research/seed/audio-attunements-desert-living|IHR Seed Grant]].
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 === Seasonal feast ===
-The seasonal feast for the arrival of desert spring in a parallel shade world, Shadow Belmont. (~March 19 2018)
+The seasonal feast for the arrival of desert spring in a parallel shade world, Shadow Belmont. (March 19 2018)
 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?