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 ===== Dust & Shadow Events =====
+Events and public experiments in Arizona and beyond (2017-2019).
-==== Soundwalk ====
-Dust and Shadow soundwalk, in collaboration with the [[http://www.museumofwalking.org/|Museum of Walking]].
+==== Acoustic Ecology Salon ====
+The Desert Salon in the Hayden library is envisaged as a "physical narrative". It is a space filled with objects and media collected together as fragments of a possible future scenario. In this case, it's a scenario for an alternative future of Phoenix with a somewhat Solar Punk inspired atmosphere. The design is intimate and contemplative, inviting deceleration, solidarity (with humans and other-than-humans), appreciation, care, elation and relief, without losing a sense of irreverence and resistance.
+In this scenario, the Hayden library still exists, but it is used slightly differently. It became a monastic entity for rethinking time and re-attuning the urban clock-time to the rhythms of the desert. It's a hybrid between a study space, listening bar, an intimate lounge room and an exploded publication. It is suggestive of a library in a speculative desert university, where Occult sciences, fictocriticism, coven studies and dust theory are common fields of study.
+Moodboard: https://www.pinterest.com/deziluzija/dust-shadow/ \\
+In progress: {{ :dust_and_shadow:20190715-d_s_library-design_guide.pdf |Design guide}}
+<blockquote>At best, the listening bar raises good questions about whether there might be an unrealized public-listening or group-listening ideal in a ritual as familiar as going out for a drink. (...) I understood something about the tactility and enlivening qualities of sound better than ever before: Sound can be a three-dimensional space in which to put your body, and in which your body may be acted upon and opened up, even when you are sitting still. I seemed to understand the physics of it: tones as standing waves, and me in the middle of them, one of them. Or, if you prefer the language of another sense, it was like seeing colors after knowing only grays. (...) As a natural consequence of hearing in that detail, I could also sense the physicality of the people making the music — their throats, hands, reflexes, sensibilities. (...) The room’s goldenrod curtains stay drawn, and its interior is unremarkably brown enough that you can turn your attention to the spectacular thing going on before and around you, which is sound. (...) a total break in your waking hours. A cleaned window. An open window!
+<cite>[[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/dining/vinyl-records-listening-bar-kissaten.html|Ben Rattlif in NY Times]]</cite> </blockquote>
+The production of the Acoustic Ecology Salon has been awarded an [[https://ihr.asu.edu/research/seed/audio-attunements-desert-living|IHR Seed Grant]].
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+==== Attunement to the desert ====
+At the opening event of the Desert Humanities Initiative, FoAM and Timothy Morton discuss what it means to attune to the desert landscape. What does the desert ask of us and how might it change how we dwell?
+This event features the premiere of "Dust & Shadow | Redux", an audiovisual experiment and lecture-performance by FoAM.
+More about this event: https://fo.am/events/attunement-desert/
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+==== Dust & Shadow Walk ====
+Dust and Shadow walk, in collaboration with the [[http://www.museumofwalking.org/|Museum of Walking]].
 The participants are invited to attune, to experience diverse forms of listening, and to practice a geomancy for the age of climate chaos. Walking in silence through the Sonoran dust in the shadow of civilisation, the participants may begin to hear the murmur of matter, uncover desert refugia amidst urban life, and forge new connections with the unexpected.
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 Read more about the Dust & Shadow Soundwalk: https://fo.am/activities/dust-and-shadow-soundwalk/ \\
 Listen to the soundscape: https://soundcloud.com/foam_earth/dust-shadow
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-==== Acoustic Ecology Salon ====
-The Desert Salon in the Hayden library is envisaged as a "physical narrative". It is a space filled with objects and media collected together as fragments of a possible future scenario. In this case, it's a scenario for an alternative future of Phoenix with a somewhat Solar Punk inspired atmosphere. The design is intimate and contemplative, inviting deceleration, solidarity (with humans and other-than-humans), appreciation, care, elation and relief, without losing a sense of irreverence and resistance.
-In this scenario, the Hayden library still exists, but it is used slightly differently. It became a monastic entity for rethinking time and re-attuning the urban clock-time to the rhythms of the desert. It's a hybrid between a study space, listening bar, an intimate lounge room and an exploded publication. It is suggestive of a library in a speculative desert university, where Occult sciences, fictocriticism, coven studies and dust theory are common fields of study.
-Moodboard: https://www.pinterest.com/deziluzija/dust-shadow/ \\
-In progress: {{ :dust_and_shadow:20190715-d_s_library-design_guide.pdf |Design guide}}
-<blockquote>At best, the listening bar raises good questions about whether there might be an unrealized public-listening or group-listening ideal in a ritual as familiar as going out for a drink. (...) I understood something about the tactility and enlivening qualities of sound better than ever before: Sound can be a three-dimensional space in which to put your body, and in which your body may be acted upon and opened up, even when you are sitting still. I seemed to understand the physics of it: tones as standing waves, and me in the middle of them, one of them. Or, if you prefer the language of another sense, it was like seeing colors after knowing only grays. (...) As a natural consequence of hearing in that detail, I could also sense the physicality of the people making the music — their throats, hands, reflexes, sensibilities. (...) The room’s goldenrod curtains stay drawn, and its interior is unremarkably brown enough that you can turn your attention to the spectacular thing going on before and around you, which is sound. (...) a total break in your waking hours. A cleaned window. An open window!
-<cite>[[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/dining/vinyl-records-listening-bar-kissaten.html|Ben Rattlif in NY Times]]</cite> </blockquote>
-The production of the Acoustic Ecology Salon has been awarded an [[https://ihr.asu.edu/research/seed/audio-attunements-desert-living|IHR Seed Grant]].
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 ==== Related events ====
 Events where Dust & Shadow has been discussed, or its materials have been incorporated in audiovisual performances.
+[[https://fo.am/events/re-enchanting-lecture/|Re-enchanting the Present]], Tempe, Arizona, September 2019\\
+At the Center for Philosophical Technologies Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney discuss their interstitial techniques for living with uncertainty, combining experiential futures, generative technologies, labcraft, and the ephemeral tools of panpsychism. This lecture is also an introduction to the [[experiments#proposition_cards|Proposition Cards]] workshop, using Dust & Shadow [[futuring]] as a starting point.
 [[https://fo.am/events/overlooked-and-unheard/|The Overlooked and the Unheard]], Savičenta, Croatia, June 2019\\
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 The 2nd International Conference on Anticipation provided an interdisciplinary meeting ground in which researchers, scholars and practitioners who are seeking to understand anticipation and anticipatory practices. FoAM's keynote "In Anticipation of Things Already Present" included thoughts, words and images collected during the first fieltrip of Dust & Shadow.
+LCT + Synthesis talk and apero by FoAM, Tempe, Arizona, November 2017\\
+FoAM's lecture about the background thinking behind Dust & Shadow, followed by an informal Apero for ASU students and faculty.