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Before I introduce week two I thought I would update our bibliography and
artist’s list. See below and feel free to update.
A huge thank you to Catherine and Marissa (and Ellie for chiming in). To
recap this past week, I would like to talk about some of the highlights within
our conversation that perhaps our week 2 guests may want to pick up on. Somatic
“knowing” or awareness and the practice of making connections between the way
we live our personal lives and the networked inter-dependent world may help all
of us to understand “residual contamination.” This bio/environmental network
that is directly relational affects our health and environment. Residual
contamination is connected in a rhythm of movement though our bodies and
everything that that surrounds us.
Can we work through residual contamination through critical transformation and
intervention? Can there be a positive side of contamination that emerges
through art practice?
Can we become mindful and re-familiarize ourselves with the concept of time? By
consciously connecting with our networked environment we can share mindfulness
and DIY options creating a linked chain of reactions much less dependent on
processed and manufactured solutions.
Bibliograph/ Resources on Contamination
Patricia Reed’s recent article "Xenophily and Computational Denaturalization
<http://www.e-flux.com/architecture/artificial-labor/140674/xenophily-and-computational-denaturalization/>
Stephen J. Gould’s “An Evolutionary Perspective on Strengths, Fallacies, and
Confusions in the Concept of Native Plants” (Arnoldia, Spring 1998)
Anna Tsing "Arts of Living on a Damaged
Planet":http://edgeeffects.net/anna-tsing/
Edited by Nato Thompson<https://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/nato-thompson> and
Gregory Sholette<https://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/gregory-sholette>, “The
Interventionists Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life
(MIT Press, 2004
Marc Auge, “Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity, (Verson, 2009)
http://scorecard.goodguide.com/chemical-groups/one-list.tcl?short_list_name=pest
http://www.debatingeurope.eu/2017/10/24/live-debate-sustainable-agriculture-without-pesticides/#.Wgjh9EFWqaM
Timothy Morton's "Hyperobjects", 2013,
Art work/ Artists
Catherine Grau
http://www.environmentalperformanceagency.com/
http://chancecologies.org/
Marissa Tesauro
http://marisatesauro.com/works/
Rum Cake Brigade
www.rumcakebrigade.net<http://www.rumcakebrigade.net>
http://www.worldofmatter.net/
Renate Ferro
Visiting Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Art
Moderator –empyre soft-skinned space
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