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Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives (PARN)

The central focus of the PARN project was on creating, presenting and representing narratives in physical space. Storytelling is a fundamental human capacity and is widespread in a variety of cultural forms as well as being one of the ways in which, according to many researchers of learning and awareness, we make sense of the world as we experience and reflect it. As the acclaimed poet Simon Ortiz puts it: “there are no truths, only stories.”

Parn Book can be viewed online, or ordered through info [at] timesup.org

Notational Resume PARN Event

FoAM’s role in PARN is to design the Borrowed Scenery alternate reality narrative, an emerging story-scape inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka’s creed, “the ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” The creative research for Borrowed Scenery was conducted through a series of alternate reality tutorials, a research group, as well as the individual research residencies of Martin Howse, Heath Bunting, Lionel Billiet, Imogen Semmler and Cat Jones.

Borrowed Scenery

Alternate Reality Tutorials

FoAM's Alternate Reality Tutorials, including:

Workshops, seminars and other digressions

Background research on DIY biology and plant neurobiology

See also