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Re-Enchanting the Field Art x Science School for Transformation Research
Proposal/ Idea Expansion Blended Intensive Program
Investigation Expectations
This investigation revolves around exploring materiality, fluidity and transformation within the context of oil shale extraction in Narva Estonia. Through visualizing and defining the agencies that are at play, the investigation probes into socio-environmental consequences of extractivist processes and ideologies. This in part with the heavy imperial history and present that have rendered material, people, and systems alike, politicized.
Under the pretenses of Baradian concepts and the greater New Materialist perspective, the investigation aims to circumvent traditional and mechanistic outlooks on matter and society at which foster extractivist, neo-colonial, exclusive, capitalistic and regressive modes of thinking that endanger epistemic plurality.
This exploration strives to define the frictional forces that create turbulence within the context of innovation discourses. Especially with regard to points of stagnation of agencies provided within extractivist modes of production.
Here, we strive to liberate matter from its appointed socio-political status. We blur the lines between biotic and abiotic factors of the planet in order to unveil not just the true roles and dependencies that exist between all existing matter on the planet in order to function, but also the fetishized perspectives on living-non-living binaries and how they cause material agency to be overridden by the anthropocentric -/capitalocentric/- hierarchies of our world.
Methodology:
Collaborating with several groups within their own line of inquiry, whilst conducting individual ecological, material/ elemental and socio-cultural investigations. This allows for a holistic perspective on the matter at hand. The conceptual basis will revolve around the realm of mapping processes under the geophysical and thermodynamic models. This brings the field of physics away from its own mechanistic island and brings it towards entanglement and intersectionality with the entirety of the Planetary Systems on Earth.