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Project Group
Second Meeting

• research

  • reading

    • savage dreams, Rebecca Solnit
    • Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan
    • Machine in the Garden, Leo Marx
    • American Technological Sublime

    9781551114705

    • Aesthetics of Natural Environments

    978039315100

    • Uncommon Ground

    9781558492295

    • technologies of landscape

    Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty

    american technological sublime

    Amy Balkin

    Cultivates seed that she finds in cracks in the sidewalk or in the cuffs of pants. Globalism relative to how these plants traverse the globe.

• theory

  • how the aesthetics of landscape play out in (conservation?)

    from Botany of Desire, the new way plants convince us to propagate them, accepting all the abuse we can throw at them.

    I want to work in the taxonomies angle...

    does non-site connect to non-place

• key ideas
  • weeding as a trope
  • effecting a turn of the trope
  • invasive/native
  • transitioning between and industrial and ?
  • taxomonomy issues
  • toxicology
• Goals

  • Write up presentation of this project for non-space. Some sort of text that would function both as a proposal and as a talk.

    talk to margaretta

    arts research grant due the 18th. For supporting the greenhouse project. What is the budget? What do we need? How could we use $2000 to get off the ground?

    need a website

    • unnaturalselection, check in, still have? how long?
    • weeding in, own site

    visit hunters point

    timeline, schedule field trip

    • Sunday April 13th.
      • meet at Elliots, bring buckets, cameras, video, audio. 11 a.m.

    each person brings in a reading, 2 weeks after trip up.

• Potential Projects
  • Greehouse / Weeding In

    • Exploring Industrial Sites that are slowly being taken over by flora, cultivate and examine the plants that are taking over the site. Site is context, the materials both in and out of site. Non-site, not a representation.

      Archival Aspect: The archivisation process is also a biological process.

      • ephemeral archive of the someting lost something disposal.
      • hunters point, slaughter houses, dump offal into the bay/wet lands.  Tanya Polling, archivist,

      Translation: Non-site, the translation of site, the process of investiogation is a process of translation. Looking at certain plant life that's growing on its own then we cultivate it which is an act of translation, then looking at that process semiotically.

      do we set up at the site or do we harvest from the place. Mobile is very key. Being able to take this on the road to various sites.

      weeds, where do they come from, this other landscape that is beyond or parallel to  the intentions of humans. The thing we try to purge. What we consider landscape?

      sets of proceedure

      • cavasing place
        • categoriszing, classifizing
      • go to place
        • How does one orientate oneself to the landscape?
      • collect soil
        • What else can we get? What defines a site?
      • harvest weeds /
        • sustainable
      • determine what we have
      • determine what to do with it
        • wildcrafting
        • time capture of weed

      roadsidestand?

      • selling tinctures when really selling awareness. Ties in to the CD at the gas station

      actuality

      • hydroponics
      • site
        • construction
        • Tonya Foster
      • set up
        • tables
        • shelving
        • growing containers
        • water system?
          • hose, auto time, plastic tubing,
      • video projections onto greehouse
        • makes it legible, situate it?

      personal spin off

      • taxonomy of narratives
      • collections of speculative fictions
  • CathexiSpin

    • can we conect this idea to the greenhouse idea in a stronger way. Art energy could still be key, and the psychology of spinning,

      we want a presence at zero1, it's a big ea conference and no alternative energy. This was almost to shame them, we could draw attention and start a dialog.

• Potential Funding