Bel-W3 (Nicotiana tabacum L.)

this tobacco variety Bel-W3 is the most sensitive to ground level (bad) ozone pollution…

I’ve reached out to some labs across the uk and will see if they get back to me.

I’m interested in how this autographic visualisation of air conditions could be used and deployed into the community of whitehaven (cumbria coal mine) as that area has a realtionship with tobacco – as a port it boomed due tot he colonial tobacco trade…

3/03/21 – the terrorist

how to link the single to the multiple. how actions of an individuals protest can be enacted whilst being linked to the mass of bodies…

how could my actions of performative resistance be linked to a common voice?

THE PETITION. the petition has always been used but its users have become more prominent when contention around protest has been arising and the dangers of civil disobedience. how can the petition be physicalised by an individual…

using computing to retranslate a signature into an action?

hi-vis

the hi-viz vest and its history?

its sort of been appropriated into the eco-sphere as cyclists wear them and therefore they may even be an transitioning object through its multiplicity of associations… yet its history is still very embedded in ‘the labourer’, the constructor..

found this fresh water algae that is reflective in the sun… reminded me of the materials used in hi-visibility textiles…

mussel beach – cooking sections

The London-based duo Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe) examines the ecosystem of the Los Angeles coastline in a site-specific intervention at Venice Beach. Mussel Beach, a play on the culture of fitness and exhibitionism associated with Venice, contemplates the state of the Pacific Ocean through the lens of food, specifically mussels, which act as filters of pollution but are disappearing along the shores of Venice because of climate change. Building on Cooking Sections’ earlier research-based projects examining the climate’s impact on eating and well-being, Mussel Beach is conceived as an experimental intervention that reconsiders our understanding of sustainable ecology and its future.

Through a series of mixed-media interventions along the beach—ranging from itinerant performative acts, installations on the boardwalk, public food tastings, and a choreographed audio tour of the beach—Mussel Beach meditates on the connections between the health and fitness industry and the consequences of human activity on the natural landscape. The work aims to connect the origins of the gymnasium as a space that cultivates both the body and the mind. Visitors to Mussel Beach are guided through a site-specific audio tour in the form of a workout routine that takes them through a carefully choreographed journey. Developed from research informed by interviews with local experts, the audio narrative moves across the fields of marine biology, environmental studies, water policy, food research, material engineering, bodybuilding, and everyday Venice life.

Queer walking and decolonisation

Stephanie Springgay and Sarah E. Truman ‘Research-Creation Walking Methodologies and an Unsettling of Time’

WalkingLab invoke a ‘queer temporality’ through disrupting normative space-time delineations (Truman & Shannon, 2018, p. 62).

this article explore questions of sovereignty, borders, histories, and time through strategies of speculation, counter- cartographies, and anarchiving practices

The research-creation walking events that we focus on in this article are exam- ined in more detail in our book Walking Methodologies in a More-Than-Human World: WalkingLab (Springgay & Truman, 2018). For this special issue, we consider how research-creation walking events can unsettle colonial temporalities and how artistic research can participate in the processes and practices of decolonization.

Dylan Miner (2016) states that the problem with decolonization is its transition from a verb into a noun. As a noun, or a thing, decolonization shifts from an active practice or a way of life to a knowable and ownable thing. 

Turions argues that art can play an important role in undoing structures of dispossession through affective and discursive political ges- tures that focus on land, mobility, and access. Writing about affect and its relation to cultural decolonization, Garneau (2013) discusses the extra-rational potential of art. He writes: Art is the site of intolerable research, the laboratory of odd ideas, of sensual and intuitive study, and of production that exceeds the boundaries of conventional disciplines, protocols and imaginaries. . . . It can be a way for the marginalized, refused, and repressed to return.

  • this can be thought applied to ecologies – not just the people but all agents that inhabit a given space/site

posthuman habitats

although the concept of this is about future food sacristy and self sufficiency in terms of food production… i want to look into felt as a way to embed plant life… as ‘moisture retention’

maybe i should CONTACT the designer to explain my idea and ask what materials besides felt she used.

2/03/21

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