#naturalcultures

[notesoncampart]

On Love & Companionship

"We are, constitutively, companion species. We make each other up, in the flesh. Significantly other to each other, in specific difference, we signify in the flesh a nasty developmental infection called love. This love is an historical aberration and a naturalcultural legacy."

~ Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People and Significant Otherness (2003)

[librarycards]

H: What do you hope anyone interested in approaching plants as material sources for art will first consider and reflect upon? EI: I hope people will keep in mind processes of gratitude and respect — of mutual exchange, rather than of taking to satisfy a material need. This can look many ways. Maybe even just asking yourself a few questions before harvesting: Who else might be in relation with this plant, human or more-than-human? What is the plant doing here and why? How long has this plant been here, will they be here tomorrow, or in 100 years? While I understand the stance of taking as much as possible of a plant considered invasive in some contexts (in order to control the spread or reduce the population), that is not the orientation of this project or my work. I’m more interested in getting to know the plants I work with, and attempting to understand their naturalcultural status, and then considering what we might call a “harm reduction approach” that has a plan for healing. Rip a weedy plant out, you’ll leave a wound, and more will emerge in their place unless you’ve got a careful and considered (and often labor-intensive!) healing plan in place that will nurture the plant community you hope to see — while hopefully nurturing you as well!

Ellie Irons, interviewed by Hyperallergic. "10 Questions for an Artist Who Grows Her Own Pigments." [x]

[bedlessbug]

It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what concepts we think to think other concepts with. It matters wherehow Ouroboros swallows its tale, again. That’s how worlding gets on with itself in dragon time. These are such simple and difficult koans; let us see what kind of get they spawn. A careful student of dragons, Le Guin taught me the carrier bag theory of fiction and of naturalcultural history. Her theories, her stories, are capacious bags for collecting, carrying, and telling the stuff of living. “A leaf a gourd a shell a net a bag a sling a sack a bottle a pot a box a container. A holder. A recipient.”

[miss-courant-d-air]

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[rovmontana]

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[carlsonhc]

Doing and Undergoing: An Inquiry in Process

For this inquiry, I asked “What happens when I attend to process as I think about jewelry-making as researching?” To answer, I read; thought about how material, theory, and research method/ology become-together in the “doing...and undergoing” of art (Coemans, Vandenabeele & Hannes, 2019); memoed; made jewelry; and mapped. The result--four jewelry pieces and a map--are reflective and analytic representations of my evolving understanding. Their significance is largely personal: they portray my voyage so far in embracing process and experimenting with what research and my art-making could become.

The first piece, Thirdness, explores Manning & Massumi’s (2014, p. 56) concept of the third, the theory that an “inexpressable thirdness” results from the merging of two entities. As I threaded two wires in and out, I played with how two could become three. How, when allowed to become-together, jewelry-making and research produce something in excess of either. The second piece, Flight, is borne from the material conditions of this-place-in-time-and-space during COVID-19, when I was forced to look outside (literally and metaphorically) for materials to use in making jewelry. As I made, the winged seed evoked an idea, embodying the “liveliness” (Myers, 2017, p. 4) of matter whereby an art/object exceeds its boundaries, becoming event and co-producer (Goulish [2000] in Adams & Holman-Jones, 2017/2019). The third piece, (It’s a) Necklace playfully explores the boundaries of what jewelry is/could be. If we typically recognize jewelry by its content (e.g., gemstones), what would it mean to instead recognize jewelry by the process of its making? As I rolled, folded and glued, I asked what such a process-oriented ontology may open up for my jewelry/research. The fourth and final piece, Collective happening, experiments with the process and potentials of making-together. Initially, I planned an unfinished piece with an invitation for participation. Instead, 31 people provided 31 actions and materials from lists of possibilities. I assembled the piece from these directions.

The last component of the inquiry is a map that documents the journey through this inquiry. It includes ideas that I took up, sketches, and paths that I tried before abandoning. In this way, it functions as a collage: a bricolage with no entry-point (Scotti & Chilton, 2017/2019), providing the viewer the opportunity to wander the landscape of fragments and make connections across ideas and artifacts. In this way, it prolongs the process, inviting the viewer to continue the thinking-making of the research.

#carlsonhcoogler #artsbasedresearch #artsinquiry #jewelry #art #covid19

Adams, T. E. & Holman Jones, S. (2019). The art of ethnography. In P. Leavy (Ed.) Handbook of arts-based research (pp. 141-164). (Original work published 2017).

Coemans, S., Vandenabeele, J., & Hannes, K. (2019). Making sense of a changing neighborhood: Art students’

experiences of place explored through a material-discursive analytical lens. Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal, 4(2), 505-534.

Goulish, M. (2002). 39 microlectures: in proximity of performance. Routledge.

Manning, E., & Massumi, B. (2014). Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience. U of Minnesota Press.

Myers, N. (2017). Ungrid-able ecologies: decolonizing the ecological sensorium in a 10,000 year-old naturalcultural happening. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 3(2), 1-24.

Scotti, V., & Chilton, G. (2019). Collage as arts-based research. In P. Leavy (Ed.) Handbook of arts-based research (pp. 355-376). (Original work published 2017).

[e-m-emili]

Natureculture is the idea that nature and culture are so tightly interwoven that they cannot be separated into “nature” and “culture.” In primatology, a naturalcultural framework facilitates conceptual and empirical engagement with the salient sociocultural and ecological aspects of primate lives. These semiotic and material entanglements are increasingly evident as a result of humankind's sociocultural complexity and technological reach.

[yangichengartscience]

Matter, mater, mutter make me - make us, that collective gathered in the narrative bag of the Chthulucene -stay with the naturalcultural multispecies trouble on earth, strengthened by the freedom struggle for a postcolonial world on Le Guin's planet of Athshea. It is time to return to the question of finding seeds for terraforming for a recuperating earthly world of difference, wherewhen the knowledge of how to murder is not scarce

Donner Haraway : Staying with the Trouble - Making Kin in the Chthulucene”

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[studio02felicityreid-blog]

Staying with the trouble

Donna Haraway, 2016

‘To live and die well with each other in a thick present’

-requires learning to be truly present

-Chthulucene - green roots (Khthon and Kainos)- together name a kind of timepiece for learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying in response-ability on a damaged earth

-Kainos= now, time of beginnings, time for ongoings, freshness

-string figures- figure for ongoingness in the chthulucene

-capitalocene and anthropocene - problematic 1) technology or religion will solve the problem 2) given up - destructive in way of thinking ‘Too late’ attitude

-How to address urgency?

(storytelling, narrative elements in her literature)

-Multispecies storytelling- playing games of string figures in about giving and receiving patterns, dropping threads and failing. experimental futures

-Terrapolis- n-dimensional niche space- multi integral equation is a story, string figure etc for multi species worlding- evolution of language

-IDEAS - model 1) reframe chthulucene to installation space, interactions. 2) Create own string figure game. tells a story/narrative of area. mapping 3) string figure reframing Caraways the chthulucene to centre on storytelling within architectural space and design=model for the present future of …………….to re-design how we live with multi species and our local environment- more in tune with surroundings, health

-Recuperation and staying with the trouble - 2 themes in string theory- think of own themes based on framework she has set out

-’string figures are like stories; they propose and enact patterns for participants to inhabit, on a vulnerable and wounded earth’- she looks for real stories- also speculative tabulations and realisms

-materials, habitats and their inhabitants

-Critters=creatures and creation- microbes, plants, animals, humans, non-humans and machines sometimes

-’Response-ability, becoming with not becoming - rendering capable

-string figure games- storytelling and fact telling

-organisms and environments

-Anna Tsing ‘Arts and living on a damaged planet’ - Matsutake tell us about surviving (mushroom)

‘Times of urgencies that need stories’p37

‘Built up environment around us + multi species

-Collaboratively in disturbance and contamination

-find similarities between animals and humans- grieving loss

-biobehavioural studies

-p39 storytelling refs Van Dooren’s

-naturalcultural history

-Bruno Labour - need to change the story, learn somehow to narrate to think outside the prick tale of humans in history- imagery, trials of strength

we must change the story, the story much change through design

Gaia stories / geo stories

re-design word for living with/through

-chooses to believe or not to believe claims and reports by the IPCC

-Brad Werner- matter of action- REVOLT!- moments not individuals 2012- matter of geophysical dynamics

-’our entire economic paradigm- threat to ecological stability

-not replacing the word ‘Anthropocene’ - use it sparingly- what and whom it collects along the way

-’The chthulucene is made up of ongoing multi species and practices of becoming with times that remain at stake in precarious times, in which the world is not finished and the sky has not fallen– yet.’

-Human beings not only important actors in the chthulucene- other beings able to simply react

-model- work object and is worked and it does work

miniture cosmos

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Framework for futures 

-’complex biological systems in the urgent times called the Anthropocene, when the arts for living on a damaged planet demand sypoietic thinking and action.’

-involutionary momentum - Carla Hustak and Natasha Myers

-Involution powers the evolution of living and dying on earth

-’Bee Orchid’- xkcd.com Randall Munroe

-Ongoing past, present and future, called the Chthulucene

-Tsing ‘A threat to Holocene resurgence is a threat to liveability

‘one way to live and die well as mortal critters in the chthulucene is to join forces to reconstitute refugees to make possible and partial and robust biological-cultural-political-technological recuperation and recomposition, which must include mourning irreversible losses.

-’welcome to a new planet’ michael Klare

-figure world wildlife fund report sep 2015, 85% of reefs are officially threatened in region waters of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Timor Leste.

‘Climate justice and environmental justice are truly multi species affairs’

-Raja Ampat- world wildlife fund, ‘living blue planet’

-’change on earth is not the problem, rates and distributions of change are very much the problem.

Sympoeitic worldings

-Crochet Coral reef worlds largest collaborative art project- Daina Taimina 2005 p78 (Add to studio 01 timeline)

Coral forest Abu Dhabi 2014

-Arts for living on a damaged planet- play tanks

-3rd example of science art wording is world games

-’the biologies, arts and politics need each other; with involutionary momentum, they entice each other to thinking/making sympoiesis for more livable worlds’ p98

-Di Chiro ‘A new spelling of sustainability’

-’our job is to make the Anthropocene as short/thin as possible

Chthulucene- past, present and to come pg 101 origin of meaning

-’we are all responsible to and fro shaping conditions for multi species flourishing in the face of terrible histories, but not in the same ways. The differences matter - in ecologies, economies, species, lives.’

-’recuperation is still possible, but only in multi species alliance, across the killing divisions of nature, culture and technology of organism, language and machine’

-Therolinguists -’Language is communication’ many animals use an active collective kinesthetic semiotics, as well as chemosensory, visual and tactile language

-plants do not communicate- no language phtyolinguistics

-Le Guin ‘The author of acacia seeds’

-multispecies affair- sympoesis, the yoking together of companion species

-sympoesis is a carrier bag for ongoingness, a yoke for becoming- with, for staying with the trouble of inheriting the damages and achievements of colonial and post colonial natural cultural histories in telling the tale of still possible recuperation’

-Vinciane Deseret

-’we must somehow make the relay, inherit the trouble and reinvent the conditions for multi species flourishing’

-’the idea of a world that could be habitable’ Stengers and Despret ‘Women who make a fuss’ p159.

[futuressustainabledesign-blog]

Staying with the trouble

Donna Haraway, 2016

‘To live and die well with each other in a thick present’

-requires learning to be truly present

-Chthulucene - green roots (Khthon and Kainos)- together name a kind of timepiece for learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying in response-ability on a damaged earth

-Kainos= now, time of beginnings, time for ongoings, freshness

-string figures- figure for ongoingness in the chthulucene

-capitalocene and anthropocene - problematic 1) technology or religion will solve the problem 2) given up - destructive in way of thinking ‘Too late’ attitude

-How to address urgency? 

(storytelling, narrative elements in her literature)

-Multispecies storytelling- playing games of string figures in about giving and receiving patterns, dropping threads and failing. experimental futures

-Terrapolis- n-dimensional niche space- multi integral equation is a story, string figure etc for multi species worlding- evolution of language

-IDEAS - model 1) reframe chthulucene to installation space, interactions. 2) Create own string figure game. tells a story/narrative of area. mapping 3) string figure reframing Caraways the chthulucene to centre on storytelling within architectural space and design=model for the present future of ................to re-design how we live with multi species and our local environment- more in tune with surroundings, health

-Recuperation and staying with the trouble - 2 themes in string theory- think of own themes based on framework she has set out

-’string figures are like stories; they propose and enact patterns for participants to inhabit, on a vulnerable and wounded earth’- she looks for real stories- also speculative tabulations and realisms

-materials, habitats and their inhabitants

-Critters=creatures and creation- microbes, plants, animals, humans, non-humans and machines sometimes

-’Response-ability, becoming with not becoming - rendering capable

-string figure games- storytelling and fact telling

-organisms and environments

-Anna Tsing ‘Arts and living on a damaged planet’ - Matsutake tell us about surviving (mushroom)

‘Times of urgencies that need stories’p37

‘Built up environment around us + multi species

-Collaboratively in disturbance and contamination

-find similarities between animals and humans- grieving loss 

-biobehavioural studies

-p39 storytelling refs Van Dooren’s

-naturalcultural history

-Bruno Labour - need to change the story, learn somehow to narrate to think outside the prick tale of humans in history- imagery, trials of strength

we must change the story, the story much change through design

Gaia stories / geo stories

re-design word for living with/through

-chooses to believe or not to believe claims and reports by the IPCC

-Brad Werner- matter of action- REVOLT!- moments not individuals 2012- matter of geophysical dynamics

-’our entire economic paradigm- threat to ecological stability

-not replacing the word ‘Anthropocene’ - use it sparingly- what and whom it collects along the way

-’The chthulucene is made up of ongoing multi species and practices of becoming with times that remain at stake in precarious times, in which the world is not finished and the sky has not fallen-- yet.’

-Human beings not only important actors in the chthulucene- other beings able to simply react

-model- work object and is worked and it does work

miniture cosmos

[rovthelover]

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[rovmontana]

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[arundafotografiart-e]

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