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- | ==== Dust and Shadow | + | ===== Dust and Shadow |
- | === Field Notes #1 === | + | The Dust & Shadow Fieldnotes were collected over the course of two years during three fieldtrips in the deserts of the North-American Southwest. They are written as a panexperiential travelogue through the landscapes of the Anthropocene. As fleeting impressions encapsulated in impressionistic writing, the fieldnotes invite a sensual reading. The words and sentences can evoke sensory responses and the echoes of visceral contact with things that were or that might be. The fieldnotes are simultaneously descriptive, |
- | Sonoran desert 020170517 to 020170527 | + | ==== Collected Fieldnotes ==== |
- | We had arrived | + | Read the full text in [[collected fieldnotes]], as collated in the Fieldnotes booklet, published |
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- | {{> | + | ==== Foreword ==== |
+ | These fieldnotes are an explorer’s log that reframes the urban and wilderness of the desert. An alchemical work that opens the doors of perception to the unacknowledged presences with which we share the world. | ||
- | Our first experience of Phoenix was that of sprawling suburbia, a seemingly endless grid of ordinal numbers and presidents. A city of three million people keeping | + | Read the **Foreword |
+ | ==== Fieldnotes #1 ==== | ||
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+ | **Sonoran desert 020170517 to 020170527** | ||
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+ | We had arrived in the Sonoran desert. A place of desiccated time, layered time, geological, vegetal, human time. Time kneads the Earth’s crust into deep folds, cracks and canyons. Plants lay dormant through cycles of drought or grow slowly for centuries, bursting into blossom after the first rains. Humans come and go. Blown through the ages like tumbleweeds. Things don’t really decay here. They shrivel, dry up or slowly rust, yet remain present, as they gradually erode into dust. A thick, dusty atmosphere of things that were, things that are and things that might be. Densities and intensities coagulating on a larger than human scale, illuminated by stark light or lurking in the deep shadow. | ||
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- | Sonoran desert 020171123 to 020171206 | + | {{> |
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+ | ==== Fieldnotes #2 ==== | ||
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+ | **Sonoran desert 020171123 to 020171206** | ||
We spent two weeks on and around ASU — immersed in university life and surrounded by urban sprawl — inquiring about the relationships between people and the desert. Uncovering the mythical foundations of contemporary lifestyles. Seeking out counter-myths more closely attuned to the desert environment. Exploring the topological spaces of bodies as fields, bodies as listening devices. Creating propositions, | We spent two weeks on and around ASU — immersed in university life and surrounded by urban sprawl — inquiring about the relationships between people and the desert. Uncovering the mythical foundations of contemporary lifestyles. Seeking out counter-myths more closely attuned to the desert environment. Exploring the topological spaces of bodies as fields, bodies as listening devices. Creating propositions, | ||
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+ | ==== Fieldnotes #3 ==== | ||
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+ | **Desertscapes of Arizona and Utah 020180304 to 020180330** | ||
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+ | Our gradual attunement to the desert expanse, its climate, rhythms and scales became an experiment in communing rather than examining. An exploration of an embodied sense of layered time and material wonder. Being part of the world without romanticising wilderness or drawing hard distinctions between the desert and the urban environments within it. And so we embarked on that most archetypal of American experiences, | ||
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- | Phoenix and its environs simultaneously fascinate and distance. | + | {{> |
- | Our daily walk between the anyplace AirBnB and Lab for Critical Technics (LCT) offered a brief opportunity for casual ethnographic study. We were greeted warmly each morning by “Mexican” construction workers. The traffic light (with frog-like certainty) ordered us to “WAIT” for the endless multi lane procession of cars (single driver and driverless predominantly). The dispersed choir of homeless veterans from the endless war droning in refrain under their most inventive shades. “Spare any change for a vet?” Nearby, the Salvation Army Cafe serves Matcha Latte while half-finished buildings advertise their future as generic condos. | + | ---- |
- | On campus, The Biodesign Institute grows new copper-clad extensions, while the English department is shuffled further from the daylight. ASU is offering exchanges with an Australian university to study cancers affecting the Tasmanian Devil. | + | "We see Dust & Shadow as one of many ongoing attempts |
- | What are the environmental politics in the North American Southwest, specifically to life in the desert? What are the implications for the people, plants, plastics (etc) and the environment they live in? What peculiar futures or parallel presents exist in this “Valley of the Sun”? What new worlds can emerge from a region swayed | + | Read the **Afterword |
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