feeling good.
TEMPORALITIES OF PROTEST
this is not a concept to be embarrassed about.
i would like to create a framework and narrative around the past and present of protest in relation to something as time old as cola extraction and its networked effect on local and global. and then want to aesthetically and physically discuss how this future of protest may look around this time old issue and how i have the capacity to critically evolve this. this evolution will hopefully discuss ideas of individual resistance and relationship to place – the slowness of walking and wearing – and in turn also discuss physical resistance of being disrupting in a site through individual means that nods to the communal protest of body, but doing this in an evolved way… ‘the idea of of the petition’ and the virtual protest as being translatable to an individuals actions. the terrorist…
FRAMING
what i want to communicate through this project is the way in which the history and particularities of a given place may aid an act of resistance through informing the objects used in these acts. the way in which a knowledge of place may cycle back into a productive intervention that draws or speculative cartographies whilst relating a global perspective to the local conditions and ways of being in the site.
TO DO THIS I WANT TO LOOK INTO:
- the history of protest – look into making an archival film of chronological forms of protest through history… MAKE A FILM
- what objects have evolved through this history – how has the history of coal pretest evolved and come in and out of fashion (the placard…?)
- look into the petition and its history… the bureaucracy of the petition and how this could be translated into an autographic visualisation…. basically looking into the scaling of pretest and how I can scale it up in new ways that still allow an individual to be slow and to be looking to becoming with the site as opposed to imposing on it.
- the high viz vest as an object that is evolving through culture. links to mining history and construction whilst moving into the public imagination linked to cycling and being ecological in the public eye.
- think about the history of colonialist tobacco trade and its relationship to whitehaven, cumbria
- look into other coal mines of recent and their impacts in order to infer what may happen here. (eg ozone pollution.. do old cola mines result in nitrogen dioxide pollution)
I would like to investigate ways to make a vest or wearable object that has the potential to disseminate tobacco seeds through walking….
- to do this i want to do some speculative DRAWINGS of various objects that could achieve this in different ways
- I want to think about the wearable to the discreet… how an object may fold out to become one with a given environment… using local lichens and mosses??? time to start testing:
- implanting moss and lichen into agar based bio plastics COLLECT LICHENS (research what lichens are local to cumbria)
- embedding CRESS SEED in agar and gelatine bio plastics
- looking into FELT as a way to embed plant life
- experiment with CABBAGE DIED COTTON that autographically visualises the act of walking through sweat detection…
- buy some TOBACCO SEEDS to grow and see if they detect ground level ozone.
- look into by-products of the coal industry and other substance i could make objects out of that relate to the exploitation and extraction of this particular place. what trees formed the coal under cumbria…? tying in the metabolism of the ground in different ways… the coal; lithosphere, the mosses / lichens; biosphere, and the impact on the atmosphere….
THINK ABOUT CONTACTING
- experts in protest
- environmental agencies involved in this fight
- local councils and their opinions and desires |(ask about the tobacco garden idea?)
READING
- nicos quarry paper
- muscle beach
- queer walking to under tanning slowness better
- breading sweet grass – book recommended by jack
- mussel beach project… cooking sections
- strangers (essays on human-non-human) human-non-namuh
THINKING RESEARCH 