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Dust and Shadow
Pulvis et umbra sumus. We are but dust and shadow. –Horace
Dust and Shadow is FoAM's contribution to a transdisciplinary research and residency programme at the ASU (Arizona State University) focused on environmental issues specific to the North-American Southwest. We combine philosophical inquiry with experiential futures and technological arts to explore existing and potential relationships between people and the desert. By addressing the mythical and experiential underpinnings of contemporary life in the desert, we invite emotional engagement with abstract concepts, such as desertification, climate weirding or attunement. We design participatory experiences and experimental publications, as evocative propositions for re-alignment of urban and desert ecosystems.
In collaboration with The Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS), Laboratory of Critical Technics (LCT) and the Synthesis Lab of the Arizona State University (ASU).
- Dust and Shadow on FoAM's website: https://fo.am/dust-and-shadow/
- fragments https://d-u-s-t-and-shadow.tumblr.com
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Dust and Shadow is developed on-site (three field trips for research, design and creation of public experiments) and online (publications, a wiki and an LP). The project concludes with a final event in the autumn of 2019.
- Fall 2017 (november/december): fieldtrip 2, FoAM presentation/talk at LCT & Synthesis, experimental workshop, formulating experiments for experiments, planning publications
- Spring 2018 (march): fieldtrip 3, prototyping and experiments: desert attunement trip, thalient lab, D&S walk, reader 1, desert equinox ritual
- Winter/Spring 2019: design reader #2 and field notes booklet
- Summer 2019: Dust and Shadow reading room and acoustic ecology salon, sound design for record release
- Autumn 2019: Desert Humanities Launch, library exhibition opening and Dust & Shadow symposium
- + continuous online documentation
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