objects that foster a meditation over our relationship to non-humans…
if i choose to explore objects that provoke sensitivity then is maybe worth looking at ritualist / spiritual objects designed for these kinds of purpose. how to meditate on human action and the non human networks and actors.
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A different direction to take it in might be critical objects that are meshed and distributed within capitalism / neo liberalism – the pillars of society that lay solid with in a foundation of hierarchical dominance of resource geographies.
could think more about the geo-political implications of this particular ‘local’ carbon scape. how is the uk coal seam actor networked more broadly…
in the current hegemony the prevails – even those that ‘are hearing it’ could use devices to meditate on human-non-human connection… directed at those that are sort of under capitalist realism, those that have shifted from denial.. to denial of the solution…
perhaps these objects are for those who see no hope in the future to resolves and protest issues environmental violence – the slow violence of these issues that will function under short term elevation of human suffering – through jobs – but long term damage to the nature-culture locals as the jobs are, by law, temporary and to the planet – not only in terms of the burning of carbon but also risks local degradation.. botanical displacement/damage, oceanic risk subsidence / red-shale piles
Catherine lu – PMC; professional managerial class… performative consumption… could this also tie-in with these religious objects and the appropriatory-nature of capitislt consumerism and this ‘performative consumption’ of ‘liberals’ (those such as EX who’s largest funder is a fund manager) and minimalism / recycling / greenwashing… the guize of degradability… the fashion of ‘sustainabitly’…
could use the slogans of such marketing campaigns… ‘totally degradable gloves’… weaved and thatched from a certain materials…
recycling repenting rosery ….
rosaries were once made from actual roses, its texture and smell aiding the ritualistic, mediation surrounding the religious object. I made beads from the same sensitive plant, looking to create emblems that have a textural, odorous and symbolic sensual-ness.
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