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GMU:Wetlands/Cosmo Niklas Schüppel

2025-12-18T11:54:31Z

Xepe7236:

'''Cosmo Schüppel - Projekt Ideas'''

Regarding the research for my thesis "Listening with Seagrass", I am interested in the following topics.

- Seagrass is one of the rare plant groups that has adapted to marine ecosystems. In the course of evolution, it moved from land back to the sea—carrying with it fundamental attributes of terrestrial plants: photosynthesis in chloroplasts, cellulose-based cell walls, vascular tissue, roots and rhizomes, hormonally regulated growth, alternation of generations, seed formation, sexual reproduction through flowering and pollination, clonal vegetative propagation, and the evolutionary legacy of stomata, despite its full submersion in water.

- The study "Seagrass Posidonia is impaired by human-generated noise" (Solé M. et al.) suggests that low frequency sounds damage the internal cell structure of Posidonia Species, degrade symbiotic fungi and impact their functional traits.

- "Low-frequency acoustic properties of Posidonia oceanica seagrass leaf blades." (Johnson J. R. et al.) measures the acoustic response (1k - 5k Hz) of Posidonia leaf meadows. The study finds, that the presence of leaf blades slows down low-frequency sound waves relative to water alone - suggesting that the meadows "trap" the sound.

- When diving for Seagrass (Posidonia) on Aegina Island (Saronic Gulf, Greece) I listened to the low frequency rumble of the ferry boats passing by. How do they impact the grass meadows?

- The Saronic Gulf was flooded only between 18.000 and 11.000 BP (Early Holocene), while humans already inhabited the Area. In that period after the last glacial maximum (in the last ice age the polar icecaps covered around 25% of the globe) the seawater rose by 125 m (studies fluctuate between 100 and 150 m). In that rising of the water level the island of the Saronic Gulf were formed.

- "Geometrical approach of Asps River" (Mariolakos I. and Theocharis D.) proposes an examination of Early Greek and Proto-Greek Myths to trace back the forming of the Islands of the Saronic Gulf. The study suggests that the humans that inhabited the Gulf, while it was flooded recorded the forming of the islands in oral history.

- In that process of deglaciation the grass meadows were flooded and the ecosystems changed into marine environments. In that time Seagrass (Posidonia Oceania) began to become a keystone species. Now it plays a crucial role in the ecosystem: As hiding, breeding space for smaller animals; as carbon binder; as stabiliser of the island, by fixating the beaches and by producing oxygen.

- Seagrass plays a crucial role in the global health of the planet’s climate. Like many species suffering under climate collapse, the loss of seagrass contributes to a vicious cycle that accelerates the ongoing heating of the Earth. This heating, leads back to the melting of the icecaps, letting the sea level rise again.

- After rising around 1.0 - 1.5 cm/yr since 15.000 BP, the sealevel stabilised in the mid-late Holocene (6.000 - 500 BC) rising only 0.05 - 0.09 cm/yr. Even more gradual was the change in Antiquity until the Industrial Revolution (0.01 - 0.05 cm/yr from 500 BC to 1900 AD) rising only 15 cm in 1.500 years. Then the sudden acceleration of modernity let it rise 15 cm in one century (0.12 - 0.17 cm/yr). This rising is proposed to becoming even meow extrem from 2000 - 2050 AD, where the oceans are expected to rise 0.6 - 1.0 cm/yr - a rate that is resembling the catastrophic period after the melting of the last ice age. (Statistics collected with the help of Google AI Mode)

'''''Concept: Will we be able to see the ocean rise as humans once did in the Stone Age? Which islands will we witness forming, and which myths will emerge to hold these transformations in collective memory? What role can seagrass play at a moment when it is increasingly threatened by heat, pollution, and human-generated sound? Listening with Seagrass seeks to investigate the relationship between low-frequency anthropogenic noise and Posidonia oceanica at the site of Aegina in Greece. Through practices of listening, attentive observation, and the creation of a shared interdisciplinary ground between science, mythology, and artistic research, the project speculates on future climate scenarios while reflecting on prehistoric transformations—connecting deep time, ecological fragility, and technologically mediated perception.'''''

GMU:Wetlands/Cosmo Niklas Schüppel

2025-12-18T11:54:14Z

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Cosmo Schüppel - Projekt Ideas

Regarding the research for my thesis "Listening with Seagrass", I am interested in the following topics.

- The study "Seagrass Posidonia is impaired by human-generated noise" (Marta Solé et al.) suggests that low frequency sounds damage the internal cell structure of Posidonia Species, degrade symbiotic fungi and impact their functional traits.

- "Low-frequency acoustic properties of Posidonia oceanica seagrass leaf blades." (Jay R Johnson et al.) measures the acoustic response of Posidonia leaf meadows. The study finds, that the meadows '''Low-frequency acoustic properties of Posidonia oceanica seagrass leaf blades."Cosmo Schüppel - Projekt Ideas'''

Regarding the research for my thesis "Listening with Seagrass", I am interested in the following topics.

- Seagrass is one of the rare plant groups that has adapted to marine ecosystems. In the course of evolution, it moved from land back to the sea—carrying with it fundamental attributes of terrestrial plants: photosynthesis in chloroplasts, cellulose-based cell walls, vascular tissue, roots and rhizomes, hormonally regulated growth, alternation of generations, seed formation, sexual reproduction through flowering and pollination, clonal vegetative propagation, and the evolutionary legacy of stomata, despite its full submersion in water.

- The study "Seagrass Posidonia is impaired by human-generated noise" (Solé M. et al.) suggests that low frequency sounds damage the internal cell structure of Posidonia Species, degrade symbiotic fungi and impact their functional traits.

- "Low-frequency acoustic properties of Posidonia oceanica seagrass leaf blades." (Johnson J. R. et al.) measures the acoustic response (1k - 5k Hz) of Posidonia leaf meadows. The study finds, that the presence of leaf blades slows down low-frequency sound waves relative to water alone - suggesting that the meadows "trap" the sound.

- When diving for Seagrass (Posidonia) on Aegina Island (Saronic Gulf, Greece) I listened to the low frequency rumble of the ferry boats passing by. How do they impact the grass meadows?

- The Saronic Gulf was flooded only between 18.000 and 11.000 BP (Early Holocene), while humans already inhabited the Area. In that period after the last glacial maximum (in the last ice age the polar icecaps covered around 25% of the globe) the seawater rose by 125 m (studies fluctuate between 100 and 150 m). In that rising of the water level the island of the Saronic Gulf were formed.

- "Geometrical approach of Asps River" (Mariolakos I. and Theocharis D.) proposes an examination of Early Greek and Proto-Greek Myths to trace back the forming of the Islands of the Saronic Gulf. The study suggests that the humans that inhabited the Gulf, while it was flooded recorded the forming of the islands in oral history.

- In that process of deglaciation the grass meadows were flooded and the ecosystems changed into marine environments. In that time Seagrass (Posidonia Oceania) began to become a keystone species. Now it plays a crucial role in the ecosystem: As hiding, breeding space for smaller animals; as carbon binder; as stabiliser of the island, by fixating the beaches and by producing oxygen.

- Seagrass plays a crucial role in the global health of the planet’s climate. Like many species suffering under climate collapse, the loss of seagrass contributes to a vicious cycle that accelerates the ongoing heating of the Earth. This heating, leads back to the melting of the icecaps, letting the sea level rise again.

- After rising around 1.0 - 1.5 cm/yr since 15.000 BP, the sealevel stabilised in the mid-late Holocene (6.000 - 500 BC) rising only 0.05 - 0.09 cm/yr. Even more gradual was the change in Antiquity until the Industrial Revolution (0.01 - 0.05 cm/yr from 500 BC to 1900 AD) rising only 15 cm in 1.500 years. Then the sudden acceleration of modernity let it rise 15 cm in one century (0.12 - 0.17 cm/yr). This rising is proposed to becoming even meow extrem from 2000 - 2050 AD, where the oceans are expected to rise 0.6 - 1.0 cm/yr - a rate that is resembling the catastrophic period after the melting of the last ice age. (Statistics collected with the help of Google AI Mode)

'''''Concept: Will we be able to see the ocean rise as humans once did in the Stone Age? Which islands will we witness forming, and which myths will emerge to hold these transformations in collective memory? What role can seagrass play at a moment when it is increasingly threatened by heat, pollution, and human-generated sound? Listening with Seagrass seeks to investigate the relationship between low-frequency anthropogenic noise and Posidonia oceanica at the site of Aegina in Greece. Through practices of listening, attentive observation, and the creation of a shared interdisciplinary ground between science, mythology, and artistic research, the project speculates on future climate scenarios while reflecting on prehistoric transformations—connecting deep time, ecological fragility, and technologically mediated perception.'''''

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Cosmo Schüppel

2025-05-04T16:55:17Z

Xepe7236: /* Hollow traces amidst the becoming of an ecological afterlife */

== Hollow traces amidst the becoming of an ecological afterlife ==
This research project, develops the concept of a Leerspur. This Leerspur (german: emptx trace) frames this research into the ash mountains of northeastern Estonia as an inquiry into the presence of what is no longer there. Tuhamäed—ash mountains—born from decades of oil shale mining and combustion, stand not only as residues of Soviet industrial extraction but as forms shaped by absence: the absence of ecosystems, of geological integrity, of human occupation. Yet, these absences are not voids—they are active forms. In their hollowness, they articulate a material afterlife.

Leerspuren are not remnants in the nostalgic sense, but ontological surfaces of withdrawal—forms left behind when bodies, functions, or meanings recede. They evoke what Heidegger calls Dasein’s openness to absence, what Benjamin sees in the aura of the trace, and what Deleuze, Braidotti, and Ingold describe as becoming without closure. The tuhamäed embody this tension: they are incomplete, not fully dead, not yet fully alive.

Rather than classifying them as either nature or ruin, this research approaches the ash mountains as zones of indeterminate presence, where ongoing chemical processes—oxidation, leaching, slow disintegration—mark a form of Afterlife. These processes do not restore but transform; the land is not reborn but becomes something else through slow erasure. The Leerspur here is not what is left behind, but what lingers through absence.

=== '''Field Focus''' ===
This fieldwork engages with the ash mountains as landscapes of Leerspuren—material absences that speak through their silence. These are not passive remains, but expressive voids: collapsed surfaces, corroded layers, unstable gradients. Their form resists human scale; their transformation exceeds human tempo. The work resists interpreting them as static objects or environmental failures—instead, it listens to how absence shapes presence.

Through walking, filming, and listening, the research attends to the mountains not as bodies, but as hollow relational forms—spatialized memory without resolution. The tools of fieldwork—camera, sound, text—are used not to capture but to trace the imperceptible: what has gone, what lingers, what emerges. In this way, the work stays attuned to a poetics of absence, a material epistemology rooted in what is no longer visible but still acts.

The ''Leerspur'' becomes a method of perceiving: of sensing the afterlife of extraction, of recognizing transformation not as growth, but as slow dispersal. The ash mountains invite us to think not in terms of recovery, but in terms of unfinished disappearance—as landscapes that remember not through what they contain, but through what they no longer hold.

=== Technical Description ===
The research will use video and text as primary tools to explore and communicate the ash mountains as ongoing, living landscapes. The visual documentation will aim to echo human sensing—how we see, move through, and physically relate to the environment—while also offering access to materials and movements beyond what the unaided senses can register. Sound recordings will accompany the video to document ambient noise, subtle vibrations, and the acoustic character of the landscape, further grounding the work in sensory experience.

Rather than isolating data or perception, the methods aim to let multiple forms of attention coexist. The tools—whether camera, microphone, or notebook—are chosen not to control the site, but to register and carry traces of its ongoing processes, making space for slow, layered observation. The work unfolds through documentation, sensing, and reflection, tracing the movements and transformations that define the ash mountains as more than static remnants.

The tools used in this research are not intended to produce definitive knowledge about the ash mountains, but to trace the process of coming into contact with them. They serve as markers of an encounter—of searching for a shared ground between human perception and non-human processes. Rather than assuming access or understanding, the methods reflect the possibility of incompatibility, of misalignment, of moments where communication breaks down or becomes ambiguous. This meeting point—between sensing, recording, and not fully grasping—becomes a space of significance in itself. The work acknowledges that these landscapes may remain partially inaccessible, and that the value of the research lies not in resolving that distance, but in dwelling within it.

=== References (or rather access points, or inspiration...) ===

# Ingold, T. (1993). ''The Temporality of the Landscape''. World Archaeology, 25(2), 152–174.
# Tsing, A. L. (2015). The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press.
# Gordon, A. F. (2008). Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. University of Minnesota Press.
# Latour, B. (2004). Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy. Harvard University Press.
# Hetherington, K. (2013). “Waiting for a railway: Regenerating material infrastructures in the ‘Ruins’ of the British coal industry.” Cultural Geographies, 20(4), 507–522.
# Davies, T. (2019). Slow Violence and Toxic Geographies: ‘Out of Sight’ to Who? Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(6), 1028–1046.
# Povinelli, E. A. (2016). ''Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism''. Duke University Press.
# Comtesse, Hannah, Verena Ertl, Sophie MC Hengst, Rita Rosner, and Geert E. Smid. (2021) “Ecological grief as a response to environmental change: a mental health risk or functional response?.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 2: 734.
# Rose, D. B. (2011). ''Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction''. University of Virginia Press.

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Cosmo Schüppel

2025-05-04T15:45:41Z

Xepe7236:

== Hollow traces amidst the becoming of an ecological afterlife ==
The concept of the ''Leerspur''—a hollow trace—frames this research into the ash mountains of northeastern Estonia as an inquiry into the presence of what is no longer there. These tuhamäed—ash mountains—born from decades of oil shale mining and combustion, stand not only as residues of Soviet industrial extraction but as forms shaped by absence: the absence of ecosystems, of geological integrity, of human occupation. Yet, these absences are not voids—they are active forms. In their hollowness, they articulate a material afterlife.

Leerspuren are not remnants in the nostalgic sense, but ontological surfaces of withdrawal—forms left behind when bodies, functions, or meanings recede. They evoke what Heidegger calls ''Dasein’s openness to absence'', what Benjamin sees in the aura of the trace, and what Deleuze, Braidotti, and Ingold describe as ''becoming'' without closure. The tuhamäed embody this tension: they are incomplete, not fully dead, not yet fully alive.

Rather than classifying them as either nature or ruin, this research approaches the ash mountains as zones of indeterminate presence, where ongoing chemical processes—oxidation, leaching, slow disintegration—mark a form of ''Afterlife''. These processes do not restore but transform; the land is not reborn but becomes something else through slow erasure. The ''Leerspur'' here is not what is left ''behind'', but what lingers through absence.

=== '''Field Focus''' ===
This fieldwork engages with the ash mountains as landscapes of Leerspuren—material absences that speak through their silence. These are not passive remains, but expressive voids: collapsed surfaces, corroded layers, unstable gradients. Their form resists human scale; their transformation exceeds human tempo. The work resists interpreting them as static objects or environmental failures—instead, it listens to how absence shapes presence.

Through walking, filming, and listening, the research attends to the mountains not as bodies, but as hollow relational forms—spatialized memory without resolution. The tools of fieldwork—camera, sound, text—are used not to capture but to trace the imperceptible: what has gone, what lingers, what emerges. In this way, the work stays attuned to a poetics of absence, a material epistemology rooted in what is no longer visible but still acts.

The ''Leerspur'' becomes a method of perceiving: of sensing the afterlife of extraction, of recognizing transformation not as growth, but as slow dispersal. The ash mountains invite us to think not in terms of recovery, but in terms of unfinished disappearance—as landscapes that remember not through what they contain, but through what they no longer hold.

=== Technical Description ===
The research will use video and text as primary tools to explore and communicate the ash mountains as ongoing, living landscapes. The visual documentation will aim to echo human sensing—how we see, move through, and physically relate to the environment—while also offering access to materials and movements beyond what the unaided senses can register. Sound recordings will accompany the video to document ambient noise, subtle vibrations, and the acoustic character of the landscape, further grounding the work in sensory experience.

Rather than isolating data or perception, the methods aim to let multiple forms of attention coexist. The tools—whether camera, microphone, or notebook—are chosen not to control the site, but to register and carry traces of its ongoing processes, making space for slow, layered observation. The work unfolds through documentation, sensing, and reflection, tracing the movements and transformations that define the ash mountains as more than static remnants.

The tools used in this research are not intended to produce definitive knowledge about the ash mountains, but to trace the process of coming into contact with them. They serve as markers of an encounter—of searching for a shared ground between human perception and non-human processes. Rather than assuming access or understanding, the methods reflect the possibility of incompatibility, of misalignment, of moments where communication breaks down or becomes ambiguous. This meeting point—between sensing, recording, and not fully grasping—becomes a space of significance in itself. The work acknowledges that these landscapes may remain partially inaccessible, and that the value of the research lies not in resolving that distance, but in dwelling within it.

=== References (or rather access points, or inspiration...) ===

# Ingold, T. (1993). ''The Temporality of the Landscape''. World Archaeology, 25(2), 152–174.
# Tsing, A. L. (2015). The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press.
# Gordon, A. F. (2008). Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. University of Minnesota Press.
# Latour, B. (2004). Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy. Harvard University Press.
# Hetherington, K. (2013). “Waiting for a railway: Regenerating material infrastructures in the ‘Ruins’ of the British coal industry.” Cultural Geographies, 20(4), 507–522.
# Davies, T. (2019). Slow Violence and Toxic Geographies: ‘Out of Sight’ to Who? Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(6), 1028–1046.
# Povinelli, E. A. (2016). ''Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism''. Duke University Press.
# Comtesse, Hannah, Verena Ertl, Sophie MC Hengst, Rita Rosner, and Geert E. Smid. (2021) “Ecological grief as a response to environmental change: a mental health risk or functional response?.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 2: 734.
# Rose, D. B. (2011). ''Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction''. University of Virginia Press.

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Cosmo Schüppel

2025-05-02T11:52:05Z

Xepe7236: /* References (or rather access points, or inspiration...) */

== Becoming Afterlife: Becoming an Ash Mountains ==

=== Background Information ===
The concept of becoming speaks to processes that are never fixed—transformations without final form, always in motion. In the ash mountains of northeastern Estonia, becoming takes shape through the slow shifts of matter, chemistry, and time. These formations, or tuhamäed, are man-made geological bodies born of decades of oil shale mining and combustion. As physical residue of Estonia’s energy economy—particularly shaped under Soviet industrial policies—they mark a period of intensive extraction that treated the earth as a reserve of instrumental value. But their story doesn’t end with abandonment. These mountains persist, hosting subtle, ongoing processes—oxidation, leaching, efflorescence—that continue long after industrial operations have ceased. This is their afterlife: a material existence that lingers, not as inert waste, but as active terrain. They resist easy classification as either nature or ruin, instead occupying a spectral position between presence and absence, breakdown and reformation. In this way, the ash mountains complicate linear ideas of industrial progress and ecological recovery. They are not relics, but sites of material negotiation—unfolding slowly, beyond human tempo, in a language not fully ours.

=== Main Object / Focus of Fieldwork ===
This fieldwork focuses on the ash mountains of northeastern Estonia as sites of material becoming and industrial afterlife. These formations are more than remnants of oil shale extraction—they are terrains in transition, shaped by ongoing chemical processes, shifting surfaces, and atmospheric conditions. The work approaches them not as static objects to be studied, but as active participants in a slow and uncertain unfolding. Their scale invites a wide visual register, yet their transformation happens incrementally, often at a pace or scale that escapes the human eye. This tension—between presence and imperceptibility, monumentality and subtle change—sits at the heart of the research.

By tracing how these mountains persist and change, the project aims to think through what it means for matter to have an afterlife. What forms of knowledge, attention, and narrative are appropriate to a place that is neither clearly alive nor fully dead? How do we encounter a landscape that resists resolution, that doesn’t offer closure, and that continues to act long after its intended purpose has ended? The ash mountains invite such questions, as they quietly erode, leach minerals, host microbial life, and reflect the industrial systems that shaped them without being reducible to those histories. They are, in a sense, incomplete.

The fieldwork will be grounded in site-based observation and sensory engagement—walking, watching, listening. It will use tools like video, sound, and text not to capture the mountains definitively, but to document moments of contact and distance, to register what is felt, seen, or missed. In doing so, the work stays open to multiple modes of interpretation: material, affective, speculative. The ash mountains are not approached as objects of study, but as shifting surfaces through which relationships between human and non-human, history and transformation, may be glimpsed, however briefly.

=== Technical Description ===
The research will use video and text as primary tools to explore and communicate the ash mountains as ongoing, living landscapes. The visual documentation will aim to echo human sensing—how we see, move through, and physically relate to the environment—while also offering access to materials and movements beyond what the unaided senses can register. Sound recordings will accompany the video to document ambient noise, subtle vibrations, and the acoustic character of the landscape, further grounding the work in sensory experience.

Rather than isolating data or perception, the methods aim to let multiple forms of attention coexist. The tools—whether camera, microphone, or notebook—are chosen not to control the site, but to register and carry traces of its ongoing processes, making space for slow, layered observation. The work unfolds through documentation, sensing, and reflection, tracing the movements and transformations that define the ash mountains as more than static remnants.

The tools used in this research are not intended to produce definitive knowledge about the ash mountains, but to trace the process of coming into contact with them. They serve as markers of an encounter—of searching for a shared ground between human perception and non-human processes. Rather than assuming access or understanding, the methods reflect the possibility of incompatibility, of misalignment, of moments where communication breaks down or becomes ambiguous. This meeting point—between sensing, recording, and not fully grasping—becomes a space of significance in itself. The work acknowledges that these landscapes may remain partially inaccessible, and that the value of the research lies not in resolving that distance, but in dwelling within it.

=== References (or rather access points, or inspiration...) ===

# Ingold, T. (1993). ''The Temporality of the Landscape''. World Archaeology, 25(2), 152–174.
# Tsing, A. L. (2015). The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press.
# Gordon, A. F. (2008). Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. University of Minnesota Press.
# Latour, B. (2004). Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy. Harvard University Press.
# Hetherington, K. (2013). “Waiting for a railway: Regenerating material infrastructures in the ‘Ruins’ of the British coal industry.” Cultural Geographies, 20(4), 507–522.
# Davies, T. (2019). Slow Violence and Toxic Geographies: ‘Out of Sight’ to Who? Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(6), 1028–1046.
# Povinelli, E. A. (2016). ''Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism''. Duke University Press.
# Comtesse, Hannah, Verena Ertl, Sophie MC Hengst, Rita Rosner, and Geert E. Smid. (2021) “Ecological grief as a response to environmental change: a mental health risk or functional response?.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 2: 734.
# Rose, D. B. (2011). ''Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction''. University of Virginia Press.

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Cosmo Schüppel

2025-05-02T11:50:27Z

Xepe7236:

== Becoming Afterlife: Becoming an Ash Mountains ==

=== Background Information ===
The concept of becoming speaks to processes that are never fixed—transformations without final form, always in motion. In the ash mountains of northeastern Estonia, becoming takes shape through the slow shifts of matter, chemistry, and time. These formations, or tuhamäed, are man-made geological bodies born of decades of oil shale mining and combustion. As physical residue of Estonia’s energy economy—particularly shaped under Soviet industrial policies—they mark a period of intensive extraction that treated the earth as a reserve of instrumental value. But their story doesn’t end with abandonment. These mountains persist, hosting subtle, ongoing processes—oxidation, leaching, efflorescence—that continue long after industrial operations have ceased. This is their afterlife: a material existence that lingers, not as inert waste, but as active terrain. They resist easy classification as either nature or ruin, instead occupying a spectral position between presence and absence, breakdown and reformation. In this way, the ash mountains complicate linear ideas of industrial progress and ecological recovery. They are not relics, but sites of material negotiation—unfolding slowly, beyond human tempo, in a language not fully ours.

=== Main Object / Focus of Fieldwork ===
This fieldwork focuses on the ash mountains of northeastern Estonia as sites of material becoming and industrial afterlife. These formations are more than remnants of oil shale extraction—they are terrains in transition, shaped by ongoing chemical processes, shifting surfaces, and atmospheric conditions. The work approaches them not as static objects to be studied, but as active participants in a slow and uncertain unfolding. Their scale invites a wide visual register, yet their transformation happens incrementally, often at a pace or scale that escapes the human eye. This tension—between presence and imperceptibility, monumentality and subtle change—sits at the heart of the research.

By tracing how these mountains persist and change, the project aims to think through what it means for matter to have an afterlife. What forms of knowledge, attention, and narrative are appropriate to a place that is neither clearly alive nor fully dead? How do we encounter a landscape that resists resolution, that doesn’t offer closure, and that continues to act long after its intended purpose has ended? The ash mountains invite such questions, as they quietly erode, leach minerals, host microbial life, and reflect the industrial systems that shaped them without being reducible to those histories. They are, in a sense, incomplete.

The fieldwork will be grounded in site-based observation and sensory engagement—walking, watching, listening. It will use tools like video, sound, and text not to capture the mountains definitively, but to document moments of contact and distance, to register what is felt, seen, or missed. In doing so, the work stays open to multiple modes of interpretation: material, affective, speculative. The ash mountains are not approached as objects of study, but as shifting surfaces through which relationships between human and non-human, history and transformation, may be glimpsed, however briefly.

=== Technical Description ===
The research will use video and text as primary tools to explore and communicate the ash mountains as ongoing, living landscapes. The visual documentation will aim to echo human sensing—how we see, move through, and physically relate to the environment—while also offering access to materials and movements beyond what the unaided senses can register. Sound recordings will accompany the video to document ambient noise, subtle vibrations, and the acoustic character of the landscape, further grounding the work in sensory experience.

Rather than isolating data or perception, the methods aim to let multiple forms of attention coexist. The tools—whether camera, microphone, or notebook—are chosen not to control the site, but to register and carry traces of its ongoing processes, making space for slow, layered observation. The work unfolds through documentation, sensing, and reflection, tracing the movements and transformations that define the ash mountains as more than static remnants.

The tools used in this research are not intended to produce definitive knowledge about the ash mountains, but to trace the process of coming into contact with them. They serve as markers of an encounter—of searching for a shared ground between human perception and non-human processes. Rather than assuming access or understanding, the methods reflect the possibility of incompatibility, of misalignment, of moments where communication breaks down or becomes ambiguous. This meeting point—between sensing, recording, and not fully grasping—becomes a space of significance in itself. The work acknowledges that these landscapes may remain partially inaccessible, and that the value of the research lies not in resolving that distance, but in dwelling within it.

=== References (or rather access points, or inspiration...) ===

# Derrida, Jacques. (1994) Spectres of Marx. Routledge.
# Tsing, A. L. (2015). The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press.
# Gordon, A. F. (2008). Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. University of Minnesota Press.
# Latour, B. (2004). Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy. Harvard University Press.
# Hetherington, K. (2013). “Waiting for a railway: Regenerating material infrastructures in the ‘Ruins’ of the British coal industry.” Cultural Geographies, 20(4), 507–522.
# Davies, T. (2019). Slow Violence and Toxic Geographies: ‘Out of Sight’ to Who? Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(6), 1028–1046.
# Fisher, Mark. (2014) Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures. Zero Books.
# Comtesse, Hannah, Verena Ertl, Sophie MC Hengst, Rita Rosner, and Geert E. Smid. (2021) “Ecological grief as a response to environmental change: a mental health risk or functional response?.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 2: 734.

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Cosmo Schüppel

2025-05-02T11:49:19Z

Xepe7236:

== Becoming Afterlife: Becoming an Ash Mountains ==

=== Background Information ===
The concept of becoming speaks to processes that are never fixed—transformations without final form, always in motion. In the ash mountains of northeastern Estonia, becoming takes shape through the slow shifts of matter, chemistry, and time. These formations, or tuhamäed, are man-made geological bodies born of decades of oil shale mining and combustion. As physical residue of Estonia’s energy economy—particularly shaped under Soviet industrial policies—they mark a period of intensive extraction that treated the earth as a reserve of instrumental value. But their story doesn’t end with abandonment. These mountains persist, hosting subtle, ongoing processes—oxidation, leaching, efflorescence—that continue long after industrial operations have ceased. This is their afterlife: a material existence that lingers, not as inert waste, but as active terrain. They resist easy classification as either nature or ruin, instead occupying a spectral position between presence and absence, breakdown and reformation. In this way, the ash mountains complicate linear ideas of industrial progress and ecological recovery. They are not relics, but sites of material negotiation—unfolding slowly, beyond human tempo, in a language not fully ours.

=== Main Object / Focus of Fieldwork ===
This fieldwork focuses on the ash mountains of northeastern Estonia as sites of material becoming and industrial afterlife. These formations are more than remnants of oil shale extraction—they are terrains in transition, shaped by ongoing chemical processes, shifting surfaces, and atmospheric conditions. The work approaches them not as static objects to be studied, but as active participants in a slow and uncertain unfolding. Their scale invites a wide visual register, yet their transformation happens incrementally, often at a pace or scale that escapes the human eye. This tension—between presence and imperceptibility, monumentality and subtle change—sits at the heart of the research.

By tracing how these mountains persist and change, the project aims to think through what it means for matter to have an afterlife. What forms of knowledge, attention, and narrative are appropriate to a place that is neither clearly alive nor fully dead? How do we encounter a landscape that resists resolution, that doesn’t offer closure, and that continues to act long after its intended purpose has ended? The ash mountains invite such questions, as they quietly erode, leach minerals, host microbial life, and reflect the industrial systems that shaped them without being reducible to those histories. They are, in a sense, incomplete.

The fieldwork will be grounded in site-based observation and sensory engagement—walking, watching, listening. It will use tools like video, sound, and text not to capture the mountains definitively, but to document moments of contact and distance, to register what is felt, seen, or missed. In doing so, the work stays open to multiple modes of interpretation: material, affective, speculative. The ash mountains are not approached as objects of study, but as shifting surfaces through which relationships between human and non-human, history and transformation, may be glimpsed, however briefly.

=== Technical Description ===
The research will use video and text as primary tools to explore and communicate the ash mountains as ongoing, living landscapes. The visual documentation will aim to echo human sensing—how we see, move through, and physically relate to the environment—while also offering access to materials and movements beyond what the unaided senses can register. Sound recordings will accompany the video to document ambient noise, subtle vibrations, and the acoustic character of the landscape, further grounding the work in sensory experience.

Rather than isolating data or perception, the methods aim to let multiple forms of attention coexist. The tools—whether camera, microphone, or notebook—are chosen not to control the site, but to register and carry traces of its ongoing processes, making space for slow, layered observation. The work unfolds through documentation, sensing, and reflection, tracing the movements and transformations that define the ash mountains as more than static remnants.

The tools used in this research are not intended to produce definitive knowledge about the ash mountains, but to trace the process of coming into contact with them. They serve as markers of an encounter—of searching for a shared ground between human perception and non-human processes. Rather than assuming access or understanding, the methods reflect the possibility of incompatibility, of misalignment, of moments where communication breaks down or becomes ambiguous. This meeting point—between sensing, recording, and not fully grasping—becomes a space of significance in itself. The work acknowledges that these landscapes may remain partially inaccessible, and that the value of the research lies not in resolving that distance, but in dwelling within it.

=== References ===

# Derrida, Jacques. (1994) Spectres of Marx. Routledge.
# Tsing, A. L. (2015). The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press.
# Gordon, A. F. (2008). Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. University of Minnesota Press.
# Latour, B. (2004). Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy. Harvard University Press.
# Hetherington, K. (2013). “Waiting for a railway: Regenerating material infrastructures in the ‘Ruins’ of the British coal industry.” Cultural Geographies, 20(4), 507–522.
# Davies, T. (2019). Slow Violence and Toxic Geographies: ‘Out of Sight’ to Who? Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(6), 1028–1046.
# Fisher, Mark. (2014) Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures. Zero Books.
# Comtesse, Hannah, Verena Ertl, Sophie MC Hengst, Rita Rosner, and Geert E. Smid. (2021) “Ecological grief as a response to environmental change: a mental health risk or functional response?.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 2: 734.

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Lifecycle of a pond

2025-02-01T20:45:25Z

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Introduction

This publication follows the procession surrounding a self-made Rainwater Pond, created to investigate the organisms in aquatic ecosystems through scientific and artistic means. The research was conducted during the class Life in an aquatic ecosystem, given at Bauhaus University Weimar, in the Wintersemester 2024/25, facilitated by Mindaugas Gapševičius & Alessandro Volpato. Participants of the class were: Dahye Seo, Cosmo Schüppel, Jan Munske and Negin Ehtesabian.

Life in an aquatic ecosystem set out to build rebuild a pond created in a previous semester, in the Campus Garden of Bauhaus University and to investigate its evolving ecosystem: Who lives there, which microbes colonized it first, what do their interactions look like and what are the effects of human intervention on the development of the ecosystem?

Lifecycle of a pond

This introductory text will discuss how ponds are formed without human intervention and how these process is reflected in the Storm Water Pond.

To understand how a pond gets created we need to talk about a central term of biological research: succession. Succession describes “observed sequences of vegetation (...) or animals (...) in time” (William, 1973) . In other words, describing the succession of an ecosystem means to describe how it changes over a defined period of time. In a succession, the different species of an ecosystem influence it in such a way, that its living conditions become favorable for them.“Succession is supposed to continue until the species combination best suited to the regional climate and the site are established” (William, 1973). In this process rivalries, symbiosis, extinctions, dominations and equilibriums are established.

The natural succession of a pond– a body of water that lets light penetrate the bottom, is shallow enough for rooted water plants to grow throughout and that has no wave action on the shoreline (Biggs, 2005) – can be divided into four chapters: the oligotrophic stage, the mesotrophic stage, the eutrophic stage and the terrestrial stage.

In the beginning of a ponds life-cycle, a bare body of water is colonized by so called pioneer species. These species include algae and protozoans. At this stage the aquatic environment is mostly empty of nutritious and only species adapted enough to this environment find ways to survive. This nutrient low habitat is called oligotrophic. (Conti, 2025)

As more and more life settles in the pond, the nutrient levels rise and the pond transforms into its mesotrophic state. As nutrients rise, higher plants, such as pondweed, duckweed and other floating vegetation and filamentous algae, begin to transform the pond–accumulating nutrients and biomass (Conti, 2025). The more plants inhabitat the pond, the more animals are attracted to feed, find shelter and reproduce. (Missouri Botanical Garden, 2002) . These animals, again, feed the ecosystem with their biomass. Possible animals are insects, frogs, snails, birds and even small mammals. At this stage, a pond is describes as being in its eutrophic stage.

In the next stage the biomass of the inhabitants are starting to fill the floor with sediments–letting the pond become more shallow. Plants start to digg their roots into the floor of the pond, continuing this process. This process continues and finally the pond transform into marshy wetland, manifesting its terrestrial stage (Conti, 2025).

Watching a pond unfold, is watching it disappear. Although the process happens over more than a thousand years–outside of the frame of human observation–all actors in a pond eventually work towards the disappearance of their own species. The outcome is a process of continuous change, with a succession of species taking over the habitat of others. In an ecosystem only the species best adapted and specified to the conditions can settle and unfold. Meaning, when species change the conditions of the system, inhabitants are forced to adapt, or get extinct.

Looking upon the Storm Water Pond, we asked ourself how natural succession can be monitored in compressed time. Setting up a controlled habitat gives responsibility to the agent in control: How much shall be intervened? And how can be decided what species is aloud to live?

These existential questions followed us through the research presented in the following chapters.

Sources:

Drury, William H., and Ian C. T. Nisbet. “SUCCESSION.” Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 54, no. 3 (1973): 331–68. <nowiki>http://www.jstor.org/stable/43781773</nowiki>.

Biggs, Jeremy; Williams, Penny; Whitfield, Mericia; Nicolet, Pascale; Weatherby, Anita (2005). "15 years of pond assessment in Britain: results and lessons learned from the work of Pond Conservation". Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 15 (6): 693–714. doi:10.1002/aqc.745. ISSN 1052-7613.

Conti, Paul, 2025 <nowiki>https://www.solitudelakemanagement.com/the-stages-of-lake-and-pond-succession/</nowiki> (01.02.2025)

Missouri Botanical Garden, 2002 <nowiki>https://www.mbgnet.net/fresh/lakes/success.htm</nowiki> (01.02.2025)

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Lifecycle of a pond

2025-01-20T10:38:44Z

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The lifecycle of a pond is a dynamic process that involves gradual changes in its physical, biological, and ecological characteristics. Initially, a pond forms due to natural events like glacial activity, geological shifts, or human intervention, creating a depression filled with water. During its early stage, the pond is nutrient-poor and supports only simple forms of life, such as algae and microorganisms. Over time, external inputs like rain, runoff, and decaying organic matter introduce nutrients into the water, promoting the growth of aquatic plants and the arrival of insects, amphibians, and small fish, establishing a balanced ecosystem.
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As the pond matures, biological activity increases, and sediment begins to accumulate at the bottom due to the decomposition of plant and animal material. This process, called eutrophication, leads to a rise in nutrient levels, supporting an even richer diversity of species. However, it also causes the pond to become shallower. Aquatic plants like cattails and reeds start to dominate, creating a dense habitat for wildlife but reducing open water. The thriving ecosystem fosters life cycles that involve interdependence among species, with predators, prey, and decomposers playing vital roles in maintaining the pond’s balance.

Eventually, the pond enters its late stage, where sediment buildup and vegetation proliferation significantly reduce its size. Over centuries, it may transition into a marsh or meadow as water levels decrease and terrestrial plants take over. This natural succession marks the pond’s eventual disappearance, but the nutrients and life it supported enrich the surrounding landscape. The lifecycle of a pond highlights the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the continuous transformation of environments over time.

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GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2025-01-13T15:04:50Z

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== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS ==

Nothing appears from no-where. A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The project ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts - through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024 - in a book and a participatory performance.

Through essays, exercises and interviews asks ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'': Which ghosts haunt a burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are imprisoned and shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, what being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

== STATE OF WRITING ==

==== Essay: I am the Ghosts that Haunt Themselves ====
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb|left]]

==== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ====
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

==== Exercises I-V (first draft): ====
[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves-2.pdf|left|thumb]]

== STATE OF DESIGN ==
PDF: Tests for Design[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb|left]]

Cover:
The text (Ghosts Finding Ghosts...) will be printed on a separate, translucent paper - functioning as a cover for the book.

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Sample: Text page (Essay/Interview)
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==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

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<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation
for Standards and Order>

== Performance Score: ==
[[File:Performance score- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|1078x1078px|The ''Ghosts Finding Ghost -'' Performance is a participatory adaptation of the Performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires'', performed at Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition ''sense & sense-abilities''.

[[File:Spreading Ashes Performance - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|thumb]][[File:Spreading Ashes Performance 2 - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|left|thumb]]In the performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires,'' the performer spreads wildfire ashes for 2,5 h. Moving around a circular void, the performer spreads and smears ashes - taken out of a small black box - over and over again. The traces of his finger imprints gradually transform the shapes created on the floor. There is no contact with the audience. There is no interruption. There is no narration. After the time has run out, the performer takes a rag and cleans the ashes from the flor - storing them in his small black box. He leaves the space and their is only the faded remain of a layer of ash on the floor.]]

== VIDEO-MATERIAL ==

=== SCREENSHOTS OF : Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

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== EXPERIMENTS ==
The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.
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[[File:Asche IMG 5421.png|left|thumb]]

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

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====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

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====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

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== References ==

==== Books ====
Jacques Derrida: Specters of Marx

- The foundational text introducing “hauntology” as a concept. Derrida explores the persistence of Marxist ideals as ghosts haunting late capitalism.

Sofie Benoot: Solid Ground

- PhD paper on Essay Film in the ecological crisis

Mark Fisher: Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

- Fisher applies hauntology to culture, focusing on how contemporary art, music, and media are haunted by the unrealized futures of modernism.

Timothy Morton: Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

- While not directly about hauntology, Morton’s ideas on “dark ecology” resonate with the spectrality of environmental collapse and the lingering effects of human actions.

Anna Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

- Explores the ghostly traces of capitalism in ecological systems and the potential for new forms of life to emerge from its ruins.

Avery F. Gordon: Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination

- A sociological perspective on haunting, exploring how ghosts embody unresolved social and historical tensions.

Graham Harman: Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy

- Examines hauntology within speculative realism, focusing on the eerie and the strange as forms of ghostly persistence.

Achille Mbembe: Necropolitics

- Analyzes spectrality in political theory, focusing on how death and haunting shape power structures.

Caroline Levine: Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network

- Explores how literary and cultural forms resonate across time, embodying a hauntological persistence of structures.

==== Films ====
Sofie Benoot: Apple Cider Vineger (2024)

- When a retired nature documentary narrator passes a kidney stone, she decides to tell one more story about this forgotten world of stone

Peter Meddler: While The Green Grass Grows (2023)

- Peter Meddler follows the flow of rivers, looking at the miracles contained in everyday things and occurrences. He ponders the passing of his own parents and the questions that arise.

Chris Marker: Sans Soleil (1983)

- "He wrote me...." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.

Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel: Leviathan (2012)

- Leviathan is an experimental documentary capturing the chaotic and visceral experience of life aboard a commercial fishing vessel through raw, immersive footage.

Theo Montoya: Anhell69 (2022)

The poetic documentary explores youth, queerness, and death in Medellín, reflecting on a lost generation through the lens of an unmade ghost movie.

Dimitris Kourtis, Stratis Vogiatzis: Ekeini ti mera (2021)

The documentary That Day showcases how the 2021 catastrophic wildfires in Northern Evia interweave with the rejuvenation of the land, and its collective memory with the creation of a music theatre performance that resulted from the Greek National Opera's artistic workshops with members of the local community.

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T15:55:44Z

Xepe7236: /* GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS */

[[File:141216wiki header ghosts.jpg|thumb |1083x1083px]]

== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS ==

Nothing appears from no-where. A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The project ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts - through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024 - in a book and a participatory performance.

Through essays, exercises and interviews asks ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'': Which ghosts haunt a burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are imprisoned and shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, what being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

== STATE OF WRITING ==

==== Essay: I am the Ghosts that Haunt Themselves ====
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb|left]]

==== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ====
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

==== Exercises I-V (first draft): ====
[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves-2.pdf|left|thumb]]

== STATE OF DESIGN ==
PDF: Tests for Design[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb|left]]

Cover:
The text (Ghosts Finding Ghosts...) will be printed on a separate, translucent paper - functioning as a cover for the book.

[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 1.jpg|left|thumb|564x564px]]

Sample: Text page (Essay/Interview)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 4.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 5.jpg
</gallery>

Sample: Text page (Exercise)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 12.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 13.jpg
</gallery>

==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

[[File:Moodpboard image 1 -- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NEW-DOCUMENT- Typical Organisation for standards and order .jpg|thumb]]

<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation for Standards and Order >

== Performance Score: ==
[[File:Performance score- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|1078x1078px|The ''Ghosts Finding Ghost -'' Performance is a participatory adaptation of the Performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires'', performed at Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition ''sense & sense-abilities''.

[[File:Spreading Ashes Performance - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|thumb]][[File:Spreading Ashes Performance 2 - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|left|thumb]]In the performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires,'' the performer spreads wildfire ashes for 2,5 h. Moving around a circular void, the performer spreads and smears ashes - taken out of a small black box - over and over again. The traces of his finger imprints gradually transform the shapes created on the floor. There is no contact with the audience. There is no interruption. There is no narration. After the time has run out, the performer takes a rag and cleans the ashes from the flor - storing them in his small black box. He leaves the space and their is only the faded remain of a layer of ash on the floor.]]

== VIDEO-MATERIAL ==

=== SCREENSHOTS OF : Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

The footage will be edited to a larger scale 3 channel, narrative, video Installation. <gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.43.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.54.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.32.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.22.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.41.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.04.png
</gallery>

== EXPERIMENTS ==
The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.
[[File:Asche IMG 5423.png|left|thumb]]
[[File:Asche IMG 5421.png|left|thumb]]

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 3 1.jpg
File:Experimente 3 2.jpg
File:Experimente 3 3.jpg
File:Experimente 3 4.jpg
File:Experimente 3 5.jpg
</gallery>

====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

Foto: 18.Nov.2024<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 6.jpg
File:Experimente 2 7.jpg
File:Experimente 2 8.jpg
File:Experimente 2 9.jpg
</gallery>

====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 1.jpg
File:Experimente 2 2.jpg
File:Experimente 2 3.jpg
File:Experimente 2 4.jpg
File:Experimente 2 5.jpg
</gallery>

== References ==

==== Books ====
Jacques Derrida: Specters of Marx

- The foundational text introducing “hauntology” as a concept. Derrida explores the persistence of Marxist ideals as ghosts haunting late capitalism.

Sofie Benoot: Solid Ground

- PhD paper on Essay Film in the ecological crisis

Mark Fisher: Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

- Fisher applies hauntology to culture, focusing on how contemporary art, music, and media are haunted by the unrealized futures of modernism.

Timothy Morton: Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

- While not directly about hauntology, Morton’s ideas on “dark ecology” resonate with the spectrality of environmental collapse and the lingering effects of human actions.

Anna Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

- Explores the ghostly traces of capitalism in ecological systems and the potential for new forms of life to emerge from its ruins.

Avery F. Gordon: Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination

- A sociological perspective on haunting, exploring how ghosts embody unresolved social and historical tensions.

Graham Harman: Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy

- Examines hauntology within speculative realism, focusing on the eerie and the strange as forms of ghostly persistence.

Achille Mbembe: Necropolitics

- Analyzes spectrality in political theory, focusing on how death and haunting shape power structures.

Caroline Levine: Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network

- Explores how literary and cultural forms resonate across time, embodying a hauntological persistence of structures.

==== Films ====
Sofie Benoot: Apple Cider Vineger (2024)

- When a retired nature documentary narrator passes a kidney stone, she decides to tell one more story about this forgotten world of stone

Peter Meddler: While The Green Grass Grows (2023)

- Peter Meddler follows the flow of rivers, looking at the miracles contained in everyday things and occurrences. He ponders the passing of his own parents and the questions that arise.

Chris Marker: Sans Soleil (1983)

- "He wrote me...." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.

Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel: Leviathan (2012)

- Leviathan is an experimental documentary capturing the chaotic and visceral experience of life aboard a commercial fishing vessel through raw, immersive footage.

Theo Montoya: Anhell69 (2022)

The poetic documentary explores youth, queerness, and death in Medellín, reflecting on a lost generation through the lens of an unmade ghost movie.

Dimitris Kourtis, Stratis Vogiatzis: Ekeini ti mera (2021)

The documentary That Day showcases how the 2021 catastrophic wildfires in Northern Evia interweave with the rejuvenation of the land, and its collective memory with the creation of a music theatre performance that resulted from the Greek National Opera's artistic workshops with members of the local community.

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T14:19:19Z

Xepe7236:

[[File:141216wiki header ghosts.jpg|thumb |1083x1083px]]

== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS ==

A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The project ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts - through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024 - in a book and a participatory performance.

Through essays, exercises and interviews asks ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'': Which ghosts haunt a burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are imprisoned and shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, what being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

== STATE OF WRITING ==

==== Essay: I am the Ghosts that Haunt Themselves ====
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb|left]]

==== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ====
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

==== Exercises I-V (first draft): ====
[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves-2.pdf|left|thumb]]

== STATE OF DESIGN ==
PDF: Tests for Design[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb|left]]

Cover:
The text (Ghosts Finding Ghosts...) will be printed on a separate, translucent paper - functioning as a cover for the book.

[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 1.jpg|left|thumb|564x564px]]

Sample: Text page (Essay/Interview)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 4.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 5.jpg
</gallery>

Sample: Text page (Exercise)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 12.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 13.jpg
</gallery>

==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

[[File:Moodpboard image 1 -- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NEW-DOCUMENT- Typical Organisation for standards and order .jpg|thumb]]

<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation for Standards and Order >

== Performance Score: ==
[[File:Performance score- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|1078x1078px|The ''Ghosts Finding Ghost -'' Performance is a participatory adaptation of the Performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires'', performed at Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition ''sense & sense-abilities''.

[[File:Spreading Ashes Performance - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|thumb]][[File:Spreading Ashes Performance 2 - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|left|thumb]]In the performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires,'' the performer spreads wildfire ashes for 2,5 h. Moving around a circular void, the performer spreads and smears ashes - taken out of a small black box - over and over again. The traces of his finger imprints gradually transform the shapes created on the floor. There is no contact with the audience. There is no interruption. There is no narration. After the time has run out, the performer takes a rag and cleans the ashes from the flor - storing them in his small black box. He leaves the space and their is only the faded remain of a layer of ash on the floor.]]

== VIDEO-MATERIAL ==

=== SCREENSHOTS OF : Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

The footage will be edited to a larger scale 3 channel, narrative, video Installation. <gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.43.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.54.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.32.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.22.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.41.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.04.png
</gallery>

== EXPERIMENTS ==
The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.
[[File:Asche IMG 5423.png|left|thumb]]
[[File:Asche IMG 5421.png|left|thumb]]

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 3 1.jpg
File:Experimente 3 2.jpg
File:Experimente 3 3.jpg
File:Experimente 3 4.jpg
File:Experimente 3 5.jpg
</gallery>

====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

Foto: 18.Nov.2024<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 6.jpg
File:Experimente 2 7.jpg
File:Experimente 2 8.jpg
File:Experimente 2 9.jpg
</gallery>

====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 1.jpg
File:Experimente 2 2.jpg
File:Experimente 2 3.jpg
File:Experimente 2 4.jpg
File:Experimente 2 5.jpg
</gallery>

== References ==

==== Books ====
Jacques Derrida: Specters of Marx

- The foundational text introducing “hauntology” as a concept. Derrida explores the persistence of Marxist ideals as ghosts haunting late capitalism.

Sofie Benoot: Solid Ground

- PhD paper on Essay Film in the ecological crisis

Mark Fisher: Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

- Fisher applies hauntology to culture, focusing on how contemporary art, music, and media are haunted by the unrealized futures of modernism.

Timothy Morton: Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

- While not directly about hauntology, Morton’s ideas on “dark ecology” resonate with the spectrality of environmental collapse and the lingering effects of human actions.

Anna Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

- Explores the ghostly traces of capitalism in ecological systems and the potential for new forms of life to emerge from its ruins.

Avery F. Gordon: Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination

- A sociological perspective on haunting, exploring how ghosts embody unresolved social and historical tensions.

Graham Harman: Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy

- Examines hauntology within speculative realism, focusing on the eerie and the strange as forms of ghostly persistence.

Achille Mbembe: Necropolitics

- Analyzes spectrality in political theory, focusing on how death and haunting shape power structures.

Caroline Levine: Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network

- Explores how literary and cultural forms resonate across time, embodying a hauntological persistence of structures.

==== Films ====
Sofie Benoot: Apple Cider Vineger (2024)

- When a retired nature documentary narrator passes a kidney stone, she decides to tell one more story about this forgotten world of stone

Peter Meddler: While The Green Grass Grows (2023)

- Peter Meddler follows the flow of rivers, looking at the miracles contained in everyday things and occurrences. He ponders the passing of his own parents and the questions that arise.

Chris Marker: Sans Soleil (1983)

- "He wrote me...." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.

Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel: Leviathan (2012)

- Leviathan is an experimental documentary capturing the chaotic and visceral experience of life aboard a commercial fishing vessel through raw, immersive footage.

Theo Montoya: Anhell69 (2022)

The poetic documentary explores youth, queerness, and death in Medellín, reflecting on a lost generation through the lens of an unmade ghost movie.

Dimitris Kourtis, Stratis Vogiatzis: Ekeini ti mera (2021)

The documentary That Day showcases how the 2021 catastrophic wildfires in Northern Evia interweave with the rejuvenation of the land, and its collective memory with the creation of a music theatre performance that resulted from the Greek National Opera's artistic workshops with members of the local community.

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T14:18:16Z

Xepe7236:

[[File:141216wiki header ghosts.jpg|thumb |1083x1083px]]

== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS ==

A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The project ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts - through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024 - in a book and a participatory performance.

Through essays, exercises and interviews asks ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'': Which ghosts haunt a burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are imprisoned and shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, what being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

== STATE OF WRITING ==

==== Essay: I am the Ghosts that Haunt Themselves ====
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb|left]]

==== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ====
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

==== Exercises I-V (first draft): ====
[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves-2.pdf|left|thumb]]

== STATE OF DESIGN ==
PDF: Tests for Design[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb|left]]

Cover:
The text (Ghosts Finding Ghosts...) will be printed on a separate, translucent paper - functioning as a cover for the book.

[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 1.jpg|left|thumb|564x564px]]

Sample: Text page (Essay/Interview)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 4.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 5.jpg
</gallery>

Sample: Text page (Exercise)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 12.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 13.jpg
</gallery>

==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

[[File:Moodpboard image 1 -- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NEW-DOCUMENT- Typical Organisation for standards and order .jpg|thumb]]

<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation for Standards and Order >

== Performance Score: ==
[[File:Performance score- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|1087x1087px|The ''Ghosts Finding Ghost -'' Performance is a participatory adaptation of the Performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires'', performed at Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition ''sense & sense-abilities''.

[[File:Spreading Ashes Performance - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|thumb]][[File:Spreading Ashes Performance 2 - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|left|thumb]]In the performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires,'' the performer spreads wildfire ashes for 2,5 h. Moving around a circular void, the performer spreads and smears ashes - taken out of a small black box - over and over again. The traces of his finger imprints gradually transform the shapes created on the floor. There is no contact with the audience. There is no interruption. There is no narration. After the time has run out, the performer takes a rag and cleans the ashes from the flor - storing them in his small black box. He leaves the space and their is only the faded remain of a layer of ash on the floor.]]

== VIDEO-MATERIAL ==

=== SCREENSHOTS OF : Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

The footage will be edited to a larger scale 3 channel, narrative, video Installation. <gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.43.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.54.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.32.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.22.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.41.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.04.png
</gallery>

== EXPERIMENTS ==
The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.
[[File:Asche IMG 5423.png|left|thumb]]
[[File:Asche IMG 5421.png|left|thumb]]

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 3 1.jpg
File:Experimente 3 2.jpg
File:Experimente 3 3.jpg
File:Experimente 3 4.jpg
File:Experimente 3 5.jpg
</gallery>

====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

Foto: 18.Nov.2024<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 6.jpg
File:Experimente 2 7.jpg
File:Experimente 2 8.jpg
File:Experimente 2 9.jpg
</gallery>

====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 1.jpg
File:Experimente 2 2.jpg
File:Experimente 2 3.jpg
File:Experimente 2 4.jpg
File:Experimente 2 5.jpg
</gallery>

== References ==

==== Books ====
Jacques Derrida: Specters of Marx

- The foundational text introducing “hauntology” as a concept. Derrida explores the persistence of Marxist ideals as ghosts haunting late capitalism.

Sofie Benoot: Solid Ground

- PhD paper on Essay Film in the ecological crisis

Mark Fisher: Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

- Fisher applies hauntology to culture, focusing on how contemporary art, music, and media are haunted by the unrealized futures of modernism.

Timothy Morton: Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

- While not directly about hauntology, Morton’s ideas on “dark ecology” resonate with the spectrality of environmental collapse and the lingering effects of human actions.

Anna Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

- Explores the ghostly traces of capitalism in ecological systems and the potential for new forms of life to emerge from its ruins.

Avery F. Gordon: Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination

- A sociological perspective on haunting, exploring how ghosts embody unresolved social and historical tensions.

Graham Harman: Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy

- Examines hauntology within speculative realism, focusing on the eerie and the strange as forms of ghostly persistence.

Achille Mbembe: Necropolitics

- Analyzes spectrality in political theory, focusing on how death and haunting shape power structures.

Caroline Levine: Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network

- Explores how literary and cultural forms resonate across time, embodying a hauntological persistence of structures.

==== Films ====
Sofie Benoot: Apple Cider Vineger (2024)

- When a retired nature documentary narrator passes a kidney stone, she decides to tell one more story about this forgotten world of stone

Peter Meddler: While The Green Grass Grows (2023)

- Peter Meddler follows the flow of rivers, looking at the miracles contained in everyday things and occurrences. He ponders the passing of his own parents and the questions that arise.

Chris Marker: Sans Soleil (1983)

- "He wrote me...." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.

Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel: Leviathan (2012)

- Leviathan is an experimental documentary capturing the chaotic and visceral experience of life aboard a commercial fishing vessel through raw, immersive footage.

Theo Montoya: Anhell69 (2022)

The poetic documentary explores youth, queerness, and death in Medellín, reflecting on a lost generation through the lens of an unmade ghost movie.

Dimitris Kourtis, Stratis Vogiatzis: Ekeini ti mera (2021)

The documentary That Day showcases how the 2021 catastrophic wildfires in Northern Evia interweave with the rejuvenation of the land, and its collective memory with the creation of a music theatre performance that resulted from the Greek National Opera's artistic workshops with members of the local community.

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T14:17:24Z

Xepe7236:

[[File:141216wiki header ghosts.jpg|thumb |1083x1083px]]

== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS ==

A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The project ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts - through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024 - in a book and a participatory performance.

Through essays, exercises and interviews asks ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'': Which ghosts haunt a burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are imprisoned and shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, what being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

== STATE OF WRITING ==

==== Essay: I am the Ghosts that Haunt Themselves ====
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb|left]]

==== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ====
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

==== Exercises I-V (first draft): ====
[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves-2.pdf|left|thumb]]

== STATE OF DESIGN ==
PDF: Tests for Design[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb|left]]

Cover:
The text (Ghosts Finding Ghosts...) will be printed on a separate, translucent paper - functioning as a cover for the book.

[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 1.jpg|left|thumb|564x564px]]

Sample: Text page (Essay/Interview)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 4.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 5.jpg
</gallery>

Sample: Text page (Exercise)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 12.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 13.jpg
</gallery>

==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

[[File:Moodpboard image 1 -- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NEW-DOCUMENT- Typical Organisation for standards and order .jpg|thumb]]

<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation for Standards and Order >

== Performance Score: ==
[[File:Performance score- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|1087x1087px|The ''Ghosts Finding Ghost -'' Performance is a participatory adaptation of the Performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires'', performed at Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition ''sense & sense-abilities''.

.

.

..

[[File:Spreading Ashes Performance - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|thumb]][[File:Spreading Ashes Performance 2 - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|left|thumb]]In the performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires,'' the performer spreads wildfire ashes for 2,5 h. Moving around a circular void, the performer spreads and smears ashes - taken out of a small black box - over and over again. The traces of his finger imprints gradually transform the shapes created on the floor. There is no contact with the audience. There is no interruption. There is no narration. After the time has run out, the performer takes a rag and cleans the ashes from the flor - storing them in his small black box. He leaves the space and their is only the faded remain of a layer of ash on the floor.]]

== VIDEO-MATERIAL ==

=== SCREENSHOTS OF : Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

The footage will be edited to a larger scale 3 channel, narrative, video Installation. <gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.43.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.54.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.32.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.22.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.41.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.04.png
</gallery>

== EXPERIMENTS ==
The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.
[[File:Asche IMG 5423.png|left|thumb]]
[[File:Asche IMG 5421.png|left|thumb]]

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 3 1.jpg
File:Experimente 3 2.jpg
File:Experimente 3 3.jpg
File:Experimente 3 4.jpg
File:Experimente 3 5.jpg
</gallery>

====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

Foto: 18.Nov.2024<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 6.jpg
File:Experimente 2 7.jpg
File:Experimente 2 8.jpg
File:Experimente 2 9.jpg
</gallery>

====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 1.jpg
File:Experimente 2 2.jpg
File:Experimente 2 3.jpg
File:Experimente 2 4.jpg
File:Experimente 2 5.jpg
</gallery>

== References ==

==== Books ====
Jacques Derrida: Specters of Marx

- The foundational text introducing “hauntology” as a concept. Derrida explores the persistence of Marxist ideals as ghosts haunting late capitalism.

Sofie Benoot: Solid Ground

- PhD paper on Essay Film in the ecological crisis

Mark Fisher: Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

- Fisher applies hauntology to culture, focusing on how contemporary art, music, and media are haunted by the unrealized futures of modernism.

Timothy Morton: Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

- While not directly about hauntology, Morton’s ideas on “dark ecology” resonate with the spectrality of environmental collapse and the lingering effects of human actions.

Anna Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

- Explores the ghostly traces of capitalism in ecological systems and the potential for new forms of life to emerge from its ruins.

Avery F. Gordon: Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination

- A sociological perspective on haunting, exploring how ghosts embody unresolved social and historical tensions.

Graham Harman: Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy

- Examines hauntology within speculative realism, focusing on the eerie and the strange as forms of ghostly persistence.

Achille Mbembe: Necropolitics

- Analyzes spectrality in political theory, focusing on how death and haunting shape power structures.

Caroline Levine: Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network

- Explores how literary and cultural forms resonate across time, embodying a hauntological persistence of structures.

==== Films ====
Sofie Benoot: Apple Cider Vineger (2024)

- When a retired nature documentary narrator passes a kidney stone, she decides to tell one more story about this forgotten world of stone

Peter Meddler: While The Green Grass Grows (2023)

- Peter Meddler follows the flow of rivers, looking at the miracles contained in everyday things and occurrences. He ponders the passing of his own parents and the questions that arise.

Chris Marker: Sans Soleil (1983)

- "He wrote me...." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.

Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel: Leviathan (2012)

- Leviathan is an experimental documentary capturing the chaotic and visceral experience of life aboard a commercial fishing vessel through raw, immersive footage.

Theo Montoya: Anhell69 (2022)

The poetic documentary explores youth, queerness, and death in Medellín, reflecting on a lost generation through the lens of an unmade ghost movie.

Dimitris Kourtis, Stratis Vogiatzis: Ekeini ti mera (2021)

The documentary That Day showcases how the 2021 catastrophic wildfires in Northern Evia interweave with the rejuvenation of the land, and its collective memory with the creation of a music theatre performance that resulted from the Greek National Opera's artistic workshops with members of the local community.

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T14:17:06Z

Xepe7236:

[[File:141216wiki header ghosts.jpg|thumb |1083x1083px]]

== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS ==

A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The project ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts - through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024 - in a book and a participatory performance.

Through essays, exercises and interviews asks ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'': Which ghosts haunt a burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are imprisoned and shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, what being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

== STATE OF WRITING ==

==== Essay: I am the Ghosts that Haunt Themselves ====
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb|left]]

==== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ====
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

==== Exercises I-V (first draft): ====
[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves-2.pdf|left|thumb]]

== STATE OF DESIGN ==
PDF: Tests for Design[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb|left]]

Cover:
The text (Ghosts Finding Ghosts...) will be printed on a separate, translucent paper - functioning as a cover for the book.

[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 1.jpg|left|thumb|564x564px]]

Sample: Text page (Essay/Interview)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 4.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 5.jpg
</gallery>

Sample: Text page (Exercise)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 12.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 13.jpg
</gallery>

==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

[[File:Moodpboard image 1 -- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NEW-DOCUMENT- Typical Organisation for standards and order .jpg|thumb]]

<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation for Standards and Order >

== Performance Score: ==
[[File:Performance score- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|1087x1087px|The ''Ghosts Finding Ghost -'' Performance is a participatory adaptation of the Performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires'', performed at Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition ''sense & sense-abilities''.

[[File:Spreading Ashes Performance - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|thumb]][[File:Spreading Ashes Performance 2 - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|left|thumb]]In the performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires,'' the performer spreads wildfire ashes for 2,5 h. Moving around a circular void, the performer spreads and smears ashes - taken out of a small black box - over and over again. The traces of his finger imprints gradually transform the shapes created on the floor. There is no contact with the audience. There is no interruption. There is no narration. After the time has run out, the performer takes a rag and cleans the ashes from the flor - storing them in his small black box. He leaves the space and their is only the faded remain of a layer of ash on the floor.]]

== VIDEO-MATERIAL ==

=== SCREENSHOTS OF : Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

The footage will be edited to a larger scale 3 channel, narrative, video Installation. <gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.43.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.54.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.32.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.22.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.41.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.04.png
</gallery>

== EXPERIMENTS ==
The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.
[[File:Asche IMG 5423.png|left|thumb]]
[[File:Asche IMG 5421.png|left|thumb]]

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 3 1.jpg
File:Experimente 3 2.jpg
File:Experimente 3 3.jpg
File:Experimente 3 4.jpg
File:Experimente 3 5.jpg
</gallery>

====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

Foto: 18.Nov.2024<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 6.jpg
File:Experimente 2 7.jpg
File:Experimente 2 8.jpg
File:Experimente 2 9.jpg
</gallery>

====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 1.jpg
File:Experimente 2 2.jpg
File:Experimente 2 3.jpg
File:Experimente 2 4.jpg
File:Experimente 2 5.jpg
</gallery>

== References ==

==== Books ====
Jacques Derrida: Specters of Marx

- The foundational text introducing “hauntology” as a concept. Derrida explores the persistence of Marxist ideals as ghosts haunting late capitalism.

Sofie Benoot: Solid Ground

- PhD paper on Essay Film in the ecological crisis

Mark Fisher: Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

- Fisher applies hauntology to culture, focusing on how contemporary art, music, and media are haunted by the unrealized futures of modernism.

Timothy Morton: Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

- While not directly about hauntology, Morton’s ideas on “dark ecology” resonate with the spectrality of environmental collapse and the lingering effects of human actions.

Anna Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

- Explores the ghostly traces of capitalism in ecological systems and the potential for new forms of life to emerge from its ruins.

Avery F. Gordon: Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination

- A sociological perspective on haunting, exploring how ghosts embody unresolved social and historical tensions.

Graham Harman: Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy

- Examines hauntology within speculative realism, focusing on the eerie and the strange as forms of ghostly persistence.

Achille Mbembe: Necropolitics

- Analyzes spectrality in political theory, focusing on how death and haunting shape power structures.

Caroline Levine: Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network

- Explores how literary and cultural forms resonate across time, embodying a hauntological persistence of structures.

==== Films ====
Sofie Benoot: Apple Cider Vineger (2024)

- When a retired nature documentary narrator passes a kidney stone, she decides to tell one more story about this forgotten world of stone

Peter Meddler: While The Green Grass Grows (2023)

- Peter Meddler follows the flow of rivers, looking at the miracles contained in everyday things and occurrences. He ponders the passing of his own parents and the questions that arise.

Chris Marker: Sans Soleil (1983)

- "He wrote me...." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.

Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel: Leviathan (2012)

- Leviathan is an experimental documentary capturing the chaotic and visceral experience of life aboard a commercial fishing vessel through raw, immersive footage.

Theo Montoya: Anhell69 (2022)

The poetic documentary explores youth, queerness, and death in Medellín, reflecting on a lost generation through the lens of an unmade ghost movie.

Dimitris Kourtis, Stratis Vogiatzis: Ekeini ti mera (2021)

The documentary That Day showcases how the 2021 catastrophic wildfires in Northern Evia interweave with the rejuvenation of the land, and its collective memory with the creation of a music theatre performance that resulted from the Greek National Opera's artistic workshops with members of the local community.

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T14:16:15Z

Xepe7236: /* Essay: I am the Ghosts that haunt themselves */

[[File:141216wiki header ghosts.jpg|thumb |1083x1083px]]

== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS ==

A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The project ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts - through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024 - in a book and a participatory performance.

Through essays, exercises and interviews asks ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'': Which ghosts haunt a burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are imprisoned and shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, what being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

== STATE OF WRITING ==

==== Essay: I am the Ghosts that Haunt Themselves ====
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb|left]]

==== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ====
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

==== Exercises I-V (first draft): ====
[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves-2.pdf|left|thumb]]

== STATE OF DESIGN ==
PDF: Tests for Design[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb|left]]

Cover:
The text (Ghosts Finding Ghosts...) will be printed on a separate, translucent paper - functioning as a cover for the book.

[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 1.jpg|left|thumb|564x564px]]

Sample: Text page (Essay/Interview)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 4.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 5.jpg
</gallery>

Sample: Text page (Exercise)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 12.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 13.jpg
</gallery>

==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

[[File:Moodpboard image 1 -- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NEW-DOCUMENT- Typical Organisation for standards and order .jpg|thumb]]

<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation for Standards and Order >

== Performance Score: ==
[[File:Performance score- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|1087x1087px|The ''Ghosts Finding Ghost -'' Performance is a participatory adaptation of the Performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires'', performed at Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition ''sense & sense-abilities''.

[[File:Spreading Ashes Performance - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|thumb]][[File:Spreading Ashes Performance 2 - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|left|thumb]]In the performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires,'' the performer spreads wildfire ashes for 2,5 h. Moving around a circular void, the performer spreads and smears ashes - taken out of a small black box - over and over again. The traces of his finger imprints gradually transform the shapes created on the floor. There is no contact with the audience. There is no interruption. There is no narration. After the time has run out, the performer takes a rag and cleans the ashes from the flor - storing them in his small black box. He leaves the space and their is only the faded remain of a layer of ash on the floor.]]

== VIDEO-MATERIAL ==

=== SCREENSHOTS OF : Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

The footage will be edited to a larger scale 3 channel, narrative, video Installation. <gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.43.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.54.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.32.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.22.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.41.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.04.png
</gallery>

== EXPERIMENTS ==
The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.
[[File:Asche IMG 5423.png|left|thumb]]
[[File:Asche IMG 5421.png|left|thumb]]

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 3 1.jpg
File:Experimente 3 2.jpg
File:Experimente 3 3.jpg
File:Experimente 3 4.jpg
File:Experimente 3 5.jpg
</gallery>

====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

Foto: 18.Nov.2024<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 6.jpg
File:Experimente 2 7.jpg
File:Experimente 2 8.jpg
File:Experimente 2 9.jpg
</gallery>

====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 1.jpg
File:Experimente 2 2.jpg
File:Experimente 2 3.jpg
File:Experimente 2 4.jpg
File:Experimente 2 5.jpg
</gallery>

== References ==

==== Books ====
Jacques Derrida: Specters of Marx

- The foundational text introducing “hauntology” as a concept. Derrida explores the persistence of Marxist ideals as ghosts haunting late capitalism.

Sofie Benoot: Solid Ground

- PhD paper on Essay Film in the ecological crisis

Mark Fisher: Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

- Fisher applies hauntology to culture, focusing on how contemporary art, music, and media are haunted by the unrealized futures of modernism.

Timothy Morton: Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

- While not directly about hauntology, Morton’s ideas on “dark ecology” resonate with the spectrality of environmental collapse and the lingering effects of human actions.

Anna Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

- Explores the ghostly traces of capitalism in ecological systems and the potential for new forms of life to emerge from its ruins.

Avery F. Gordon: Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination

- A sociological perspective on haunting, exploring how ghosts embody unresolved social and historical tensions.

Graham Harman: Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy

- Examines hauntology within speculative realism, focusing on the eerie and the strange as forms of ghostly persistence.

Achille Mbembe: Necropolitics

- Analyzes spectrality in political theory, focusing on how death and haunting shape power structures.

Caroline Levine: Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network

- Explores how literary and cultural forms resonate across time, embodying a hauntological persistence of structures.

==== Films ====
Sofie Benoot: Apple Cider Vineger (2024)

- When a retired nature documentary narrator passes a kidney stone, she decides to tell one more story about this forgotten world of stone

Peter Meddler: While The Green Grass Grows (2023)

- Peter Meddler follows the flow of rivers, looking at the miracles contained in everyday things and occurrences. He ponders the passing of his own parents and the questions that arise.

Chris Marker: Sans Soleil (1983)

- "He wrote me...." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.

Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel: Leviathan (2012)

- Leviathan is an experimental documentary capturing the chaotic and visceral experience of life aboard a commercial fishing vessel through raw, immersive footage.

Theo Montoya: Anhell69 (2022)

The poetic documentary explores youth, queerness, and death in Medellín, reflecting on a lost generation through the lens of an unmade ghost movie.

Dimitris Kourtis, Stratis Vogiatzis: Ekeini ti mera (2021)

The documentary That Day showcases how the 2021 catastrophic wildfires in Northern Evia interweave with the rejuvenation of the land, and its collective memory with the creation of a music theatre performance that resulted from the Greek National Opera's artistic workshops with members of the local community.

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T14:05:27Z

Xepe7236:

[[File:141216wiki header ghosts.jpg|thumb |1083x1083px]]

== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS ==

A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The project ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts - through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024 - in a book and a participatory performance.

Through essays, exercises and interviews asks ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'': Which ghosts haunt a burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are imprisoned and shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, what being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

== STATE OF WRITING ==

==== Essay: I am the Ghosts that haunt themselves ====
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb|left]]

==== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ====
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

==== Exercises I-V (first draft): ====
[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves-2.pdf|left|thumb]]

== STATE OF DESIGN ==
PDF: Tests for Design[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb|left]]

Cover:
The text (Ghosts Finding Ghosts...) will be printed on a separate, translucent paper - functioning as a cover for the book.

[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 1.jpg|left|thumb|564x564px]]

Sample: Text page (Essay/Interview)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 4.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 5.jpg
</gallery>

Sample: Text page (Exercise)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 12.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 13.jpg
</gallery>

==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

[[File:Moodpboard image 1 -- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NEW-DOCUMENT- Typical Organisation for standards and order .jpg|thumb]]

<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation for Standards and Order >

== Performance Score: ==
[[File:Performance score- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|1087x1087px|The ''Ghosts Finding Ghost -'' Performance is a participatory adaptation of the Performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires'', performed at Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition ''sense & sense-abilities''.

[[File:Spreading Ashes Performance - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|thumb]][[File:Spreading Ashes Performance 2 - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|left|thumb]]In the performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires,'' the performer spreads wildfire ashes for 2,5 h. Moving around a circular void, the performer spreads and smears ashes - taken out of a small black box - over and over again. The traces of his finger imprints gradually transform the shapes created on the floor. There is no contact with the audience. There is no interruption. There is no narration. After the time has run out, the performer takes a rag and cleans the ashes from the flor - storing them in his small black box. He leaves the space and their is only the faded remain of a layer of ash on the floor.]]

== VIDEO-MATERIAL ==

=== SCREENSHOTS OF : Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

The footage will be edited to a larger scale 3 channel, narrative, video Installation. <gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.43.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.54.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.32.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.22.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.41.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.04.png
</gallery>

== EXPERIMENTS ==
The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.
[[File:Asche IMG 5423.png|left|thumb]]
[[File:Asche IMG 5421.png|left|thumb]]

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 3 1.jpg
File:Experimente 3 2.jpg
File:Experimente 3 3.jpg
File:Experimente 3 4.jpg
File:Experimente 3 5.jpg
</gallery>

====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

Foto: 18.Nov.2024<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 6.jpg
File:Experimente 2 7.jpg
File:Experimente 2 8.jpg
File:Experimente 2 9.jpg
</gallery>

====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 1.jpg
File:Experimente 2 2.jpg
File:Experimente 2 3.jpg
File:Experimente 2 4.jpg
File:Experimente 2 5.jpg
</gallery>

== References ==

==== Books ====
Jacques Derrida: Specters of Marx

- The foundational text introducing “hauntology” as a concept. Derrida explores the persistence of Marxist ideals as ghosts haunting late capitalism.

Sofie Benoot: Solid Ground

- PhD paper on Essay Film in the ecological crisis

Mark Fisher: Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

- Fisher applies hauntology to culture, focusing on how contemporary art, music, and media are haunted by the unrealized futures of modernism.

Timothy Morton: Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

- While not directly about hauntology, Morton’s ideas on “dark ecology” resonate with the spectrality of environmental collapse and the lingering effects of human actions.

Anna Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

- Explores the ghostly traces of capitalism in ecological systems and the potential for new forms of life to emerge from its ruins.

Avery F. Gordon: Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination

- A sociological perspective on haunting, exploring how ghosts embody unresolved social and historical tensions.

Graham Harman: Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy

- Examines hauntology within speculative realism, focusing on the eerie and the strange as forms of ghostly persistence.

Achille Mbembe: Necropolitics

- Analyzes spectrality in political theory, focusing on how death and haunting shape power structures.

Caroline Levine: Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network

- Explores how literary and cultural forms resonate across time, embodying a hauntological persistence of structures.

==== Films ====
Sofie Benoot: Apple Cider Vineger (2024)

- When a retired nature documentary narrator passes a kidney stone, she decides to tell one more story about this forgotten world of stone

Peter Meddler: While The Green Grass Grows (2023)

- Peter Meddler follows the flow of rivers, looking at the miracles contained in everyday things and occurrences. He ponders the passing of his own parents and the questions that arise.

Chris Marker: Sans Soleil (1983)

- "He wrote me...." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.

Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel: Leviathan (2012)

- Leviathan is an experimental documentary capturing the chaotic and visceral experience of life aboard a commercial fishing vessel through raw, immersive footage.

Theo Montoya: Anhell69 (2022)

The poetic documentary explores youth, queerness, and death in Medellín, reflecting on a lost generation through the lens of an unmade ghost movie.

Dimitris Kourtis, Stratis Vogiatzis: Ekeini ti mera (2021)

The documentary That Day showcases how the 2021 catastrophic wildfires in Northern Evia interweave with the rejuvenation of the land, and its collective memory with the creation of a music theatre performance that resulted from the Greek National Opera's artistic workshops with members of the local community.

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T13:45:33Z

Xepe7236:

[[File:141216wiki header ghosts.jpg|thumb |1083x1083px]]

== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS ==

A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The project ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts - through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024 - in a book and a participatory performance.

Through essays, exercises and interviews asks ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'': Which ghosts haunt a burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are imprisoned and shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, what being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

== STATE OF WRITING ==

==== Essay: I am the Ghosts that haunt themselves ====
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb|left]]

==== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ====
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

==== Exercises I-V (first draft): ====
[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves-2.pdf|left|thumb]]

== STATE OF DESIGN ==
PDF: Tests for Design[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb|left]]

Cover:
The text (Ghosts Finding Ghosts...) will be printed on a separate, translucent paper - functioning as a cover for the book.

[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 1.jpg|left|thumb|564x564px]]

Sample: Text page (Essay/Interview)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 4.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 5.jpg
</gallery>

Sample: Text page (Exercise)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 12.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 13.jpg
</gallery>

==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

[[File:Moodpboard image 1 -- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NEW-DOCUMENT- Typical Organisation for standards and order .jpg|thumb]]

<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation for Standards and Order >

== Performance Score: ==
[[File:Performance score- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|1087x1087px|The ''Ghosts Finding Ghost -'' Performance is a participatory adaptation of the Performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires'', performed at Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition ''sense & sense-abilities''.

[[File:Spreading Ashes Performance - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|thumb]][[File:Spreading Ashes Performance 2 - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|left|thumb]]In the performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires,'' the performer spreads wildfire ashes for 2,5 h. Moving around a circular void, the performer spreads and smears ashes - taken out of a small black box - over and over again. The traces of his finger imprints gradually transform the shapes created on the floor. There is no contact with the audience. There is no interruption. There is no narration. After the time has run out, the performer takes a rag and cleans the ashes from the flor - storing them in his small black box. He leaves the space and their is only the faded remain of a layer of ash on the floor.]]

== VIDEO-MATERIAL ==

=== SCREENSHOTS OF : Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

The footage will be edited to a larger scale 3 channel, narrative, video Installation. <gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.43.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.54.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.32.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.22.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.41.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.04.png
</gallery>

== EXPERIMENTS ==
The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.
[[File:Asche IMG 5423.png|left|thumb]]
[[File:Asche IMG 5421.png|left|thumb]]

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 3 1.jpg
File:Experimente 3 2.jpg
File:Experimente 3 3.jpg
File:Experimente 3 4.jpg
File:Experimente 3 5.jpg
</gallery>

====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

Foto: 18.Nov.2024<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 6.jpg
File:Experimente 2 7.jpg
File:Experimente 2 8.jpg
File:Experimente 2 9.jpg
</gallery>

====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 1.jpg
File:Experimente 2 2.jpg
File:Experimente 2 3.jpg
File:Experimente 2 4.jpg
File:Experimente 2 5.jpg
</gallery>

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T13:44:01Z

Xepe7236:

[[File:141216wiki header ghosts.jpg|thumb |1083x1083px]]

== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS ==

A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The book ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024.
Through essays, exercises and interviews asks ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'': Which ghosts haunt a burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are imprisoned and shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, what being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

== STATE OF WRITING ==

==== Essay: I am the Ghosts that haunt themselves ====
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb|left]]

==== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ====
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

==== Exercises I-V (first draft): ====
[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves-2.pdf|left|thumb]]

== STATE OF DESIGN ==
PDF: Tests for Design[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb|left]]

Cover:
The text (Ghosts Finding Ghosts...) will be printed on a separate, translucent paper - functioning as a cover for the book.

[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 1.jpg|left|thumb|564x564px]]

Sample: Text page (Essay/Interview)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 4.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 5.jpg
</gallery>

Sample: Text page (Exercise)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 12.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 13.jpg
</gallery>

==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

[[File:Moodpboard image 1 -- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NEW-DOCUMENT- Typical Organisation for standards and order .jpg|thumb]]

<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation for Standards and Order >

== Performance Score: ==
[[File:Performance score- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|1087x1087px|The ''Ghosts Finding Ghost -'' Performance is a participatory adaptation of the Performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires'', performed at Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition ''sense & sense-abilities''.

[[File:Spreading Ashes Performance - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|thumb]][[File:Spreading Ashes Performance 2 - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|left|thumb]]In the performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires,'' the performer spreads wildfire ashes for 2,5 h. Moving around a circular void, the performer spreads and smears ashes - taken out of a small black box - over and over again. The traces of his finger imprints gradually transform the shapes created on the floor. There is no contact with the audience. There is no interruption. There is no narration. After the time has run out, the performer takes a rag and cleans the ashes from the flor - storing them in his small black box. He leaves the space and their is only the faded remain of a layer of ash on the floor.]]

== VIDEO-MATERIAL ==

=== SCREENSHOTS OF : Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

The footage will be edited to a larger scale 3 channel, narrative, video Installation. <gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.43.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.54.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.32.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.22.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.41.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.04.png
</gallery>

== EXPERIMENTS ==
The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.
[[File:Asche IMG 5423.png|left|thumb]]
[[File:Asche IMG 5421.png|left|thumb]]

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 3 1.jpg
File:Experimente 3 2.jpg
File:Experimente 3 3.jpg
File:Experimente 3 4.jpg
File:Experimente 3 5.jpg
</gallery>

====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

Foto: 18.Nov.2024<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 6.jpg
File:Experimente 2 7.jpg
File:Experimente 2 8.jpg
File:Experimente 2 9.jpg
</gallery>

====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 1.jpg
File:Experimente 2 2.jpg
File:Experimente 2 3.jpg
File:Experimente 2 4.jpg
File:Experimente 2 5.jpg
</gallery>

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T13:43:43Z

Xepe7236:

[[File:141216wiki header ghosts.jpg|thumb |1083x1083px]]

== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS ==

A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The book ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024.
Through essays, exercises and interviews asks ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'': Which ghosts haunt a burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are imprisoned and shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, what being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

== STATE OF WRITING ==

==== Essay: I am the Ghosts that haunt themselves ====
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb|left]]

==== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ====
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

==== Exercises I-V (first draft): ====
[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves-2.pdf|left|thumb]]

== STATE OF DESIGN ==
PDF: Tests for Design[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb|left]]

Cover:
The text (Ghosts Finding Ghosts...) will be printed on a separate, translucent paper - functioning as a cover for the book.

[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 1.jpg|left|thumb|564x564px]]

Sample: Text page (Essay/Interview)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 4.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 5.jpg
</gallery>

Sample: Text page (Exercise)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 12.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 13.jpg
</gallery>

==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

[[File:Moodpboard image 1 -- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NEW-DOCUMENT- Typical Organisation for standards and order .jpg|thumb]]

<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation for Standards and Order >

== Performance Score: ==
[[File:Performance score- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|1087x1087px|The ''Ghosts Finding Ghost -'' Performance is a participatory adaptation of the Performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires'', performed at Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition ''sense & sense-abilities''.

[[File:Spreading Ashes Performance - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|thumb]][[File:Spreading Ashes Performance 2 - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|left|thumb]]In the performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires,'' the performer spreads wildfire ashes for 2,5 h. Moving around a circular void, the performer spreads and smears ashes - taken out of a small black box - over and over again. The traces of his finger imprints gradually transform the shapes created on the floor. There is no contact with the audience. There is no interruption. There is no narration. After the time has run out, the performer takes a rag and cleans the ashes from the flor - storing them in his small black box. He leaves the space and their is only the faded remain of a layer of ash on the floor.]]

== VIDEO-MATERIAL ==

=== SCREENSHOTS OF : Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

The footage will be edited to a larger scale 3 channel, narrative, video Installation. <gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.43.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.54.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.32.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.22.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.41.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.04.png
</gallery>

== EXPERIMENTS ==
The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.
[[File:Asche IMG 5423.png|left|thumb]]
[[File:Asche IMG 5421.png|left|thumb]]

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 3 1.jpg
File:Experimente 3 2.jpg
File:Experimente 3 3.jpg
File:Experimente 3 4.jpg
File:Experimente 3 5.jpg
</gallery>

====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

Foto: 18.Nov.2024<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 6.jpg
File:Experimente 2 7.jpg
File:Experimente 2 8.jpg
File:Experimente 2 9.jpg
</gallery>

====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 1.jpg
File:Experimente 2 2.jpg
File:Experimente 2 3.jpg
File:Experimente 2 4.jpg
File:Experimente 2 5.jpg
</gallery>

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T13:43:20Z

Xepe7236:

[[File:141216wiki header ghosts.jpg|thumb |1083x1083px]]

== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS ==

A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The book ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024.
Through essays, exercises and interviews asks ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'': Which ghosts haunt a burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are imprisoned and shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, what being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

== STATE OF WRITING ==

==== Essay: I am the Ghosts that haunt themselves ====
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb|left]]

==== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ====
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

==== Exercises I-V (first draft): ====
[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves-2.pdf|left|thumb]]

== STATE OF DESIGN ==
PDF: Tests for Design[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb|left]]

Cover:
The text (Ghosts Finding Ghosts...) will be printed on a separate, translucent paper - functioning as a cover for the book.

[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 1.jpg|left|thumb|564x564px]]

Sample: Text page (Essay/Interview)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 4.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 5.jpg
</gallery>

Sample: Text page (Exercise)
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 12.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 13.jpg
</gallery>

==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

[[File:Moodpboard image 1 -- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NEW-DOCUMENT- Typical Organisation for standards and order .jpg|thumb]]

<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation for Standards and Order >

== Performance Score: ==
[[File:Performance score- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|1087x1087px|The ''Ghosts Finding Ghost -'' Performance is a participatory adaptation of the Performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires'', performed at Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition ''sense & sense-abilities''.[[File:Spreading Ashes Performance - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|thumb]][[File:Spreading Ashes Performance 2 - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg|left|thumb]]In the performance ''Speeding the ashes of the 2021 Evia Wildfires,'' the performer spreads wildfire ashes for 2,5 h. Moving around a circular void, the performer spreads and smears ashes - taken out of a small black box - over and over again. The traces of his finger imprints gradually transform the shapes created on the floor. There is no contact with the audience. There is no interruption. There is no narration. After the time has run out, the performer takes a rag and cleans the ashes from the flor - storing them in his small black box. He leaves the space and their is only the faded remain of a layer of ash on the floor.]]

== VIDEO-MATERIAL ==

=== SCREENSHOTS OF : Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

The footage will be edited to a larger scale 3 channel, narrative, video Installation. <gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.43.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.54.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.32.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.22.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.41.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.04.png
</gallery>

== EXPERIMENTS ==
The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.
[[File:Asche IMG 5423.png|left|thumb]]
[[File:Asche IMG 5421.png|left|thumb]]

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 3 1.jpg
File:Experimente 3 2.jpg
File:Experimente 3 3.jpg
File:Experimente 3 4.jpg
File:Experimente 3 5.jpg
</gallery>

====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

Foto: 18.Nov.2024<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 6.jpg
File:Experimente 2 7.jpg
File:Experimente 2 8.jpg
File:Experimente 2 9.jpg
</gallery>

====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 1.jpg
File:Experimente 2 2.jpg
File:Experimente 2 3.jpg
File:Experimente 2 4.jpg
File:Experimente 2 5.jpg
</gallery>

File:Spreading Ashes Performance 2 - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg

2024-12-16T13:37:38Z

Xepe7236:

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File:Spreading Ashes Performance - Foto- Peechana Chayochaichana.jpg

2024-12-16T13:37:12Z

Xepe7236:

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GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T13:28:13Z

Xepe7236:

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T13:27:55Z

Xepe7236:

File:Performance score- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg

2024-12-16T13:27:32Z

Xepe7236:

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GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:59:07Z

Xepe7236:

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:58:31Z

Xepe7236:

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:58:23Z

Xepe7236:

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:58:04Z

Xepe7236: /* STATE OF DESIGN */

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:57:54Z

Xepe7236:

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:57:37Z

Xepe7236:

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:56:56Z

Xepe7236:

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:56:34Z

Xepe7236:

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:56:08Z

Xepe7236:

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:55:36Z

Xepe7236:

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:51:29Z

Xepe7236:

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:49:37Z

Xepe7236: /* GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS FINDING (...) */

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:16:10Z

Xepe7236:

[[File:141216wiki header ghosts.jpg|thumb |1083x1083px]]

== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS FINDING (...) ==

A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The book ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024.
Through essays, exercises and interviews ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' asks: Which ghosts haunt that burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, how being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

== STATE OF WRITING ==

==== Essay: I am the Ghosts that haunt themselves ====
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb|left]]

==== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ====
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

==== Exercises I-V (first draft): ====
[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves-2.pdf|left|thumb]]

== STATE OF DESIGN ==
[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb|left]]

[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 1.jpg|left|thumb|564x564px]]

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 4.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 5.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 12.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 13.jpg
</gallery>

==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

[[File:Moodpboard image 1 -- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NEW-DOCUMENT- Typical Organisation for standards and order .jpg|thumb]]

<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation for Standards and Order >

== VIDEO-MATERIAL ==

=== SCREENSHOTS OF : Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

The footage will be edited to a larger scale 3 channel, narrative, video Installation. <gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.43.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.54.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.32.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.22.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.41.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.04.png
</gallery>

== EXPERIMENTS ==
The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.
[[File:Asche IMG 5423.png|left|thumb]]
[[File:Asche IMG 5421.png|left|thumb]]

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 3 1.jpg
File:Experimente 3 2.jpg
File:Experimente 3 3.jpg
File:Experimente 3 4.jpg
File:Experimente 3 5.jpg
</gallery>

====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

Foto: 18.Nov.2024<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 6.jpg
File:Experimente 2 7.jpg
File:Experimente 2 8.jpg
File:Experimente 2 9.jpg
</gallery>

====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 1.jpg
File:Experimente 2 2.jpg
File:Experimente 2 3.jpg
File:Experimente 2 4.jpg
File:Experimente 2 5.jpg
</gallery>

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:14:26Z

Xepe7236:

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:12:58Z

Xepe7236: /* Exercises I-VII (first draft): */

[[File:141216wiki header ghosts.jpg|thumb |1083x1083px]]

== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS FINDING (...) ==

A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The book ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024.
Through essays, exercises and interviews ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' asks: Which ghosts haunt that burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, how being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

== STATE OF WRITING ==

==== Essay: I am the Ghosts that haunt themselves ====
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb|left]]

==== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ====
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

==== Exercises I-V (first draft): ====
[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves-2.pdf|left|thumb]]

=== STATE OF DESIGN ===
[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb|left]]

[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 1.jpg|left|thumb|564x564px]]

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 4.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 5.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 12.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 13.jpg
</gallery>

==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

[[File:Moodpboard image 1 -- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NEW-DOCUMENT- Typical Organisation for standards and order .jpg|thumb]]

<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation for Standards and Order >

=== SCREENSHOTS OF VIDEO-MATERIAL: Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

The footage will be edited to a larger scale 3 channel, narrative, video Installation. <gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.43.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.54.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.32.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.22.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.41.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.04.png
</gallery>

=== EXPERIMENTS ===

The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.
[[File:Asche IMG 5423.png|left|thumb]]
[[File:Asche IMG 5421.png|left|thumb]]

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 3 1.jpg
File:Experimente 3 2.jpg
File:Experimente 3 3.jpg
File:Experimente 3 4.jpg
File:Experimente 3 5.jpg
</gallery>

====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

Foto: 18.Nov.2024<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 6.jpg
File:Experimente 2 7.jpg
File:Experimente 2 8.jpg
File:Experimente 2 9.jpg
</gallery>

====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 1.jpg
File:Experimente 2 2.jpg
File:Experimente 2 3.jpg
File:Experimente 2 4.jpg
File:Experimente 2 5.jpg
</gallery>

File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves-2.pdf

2024-12-16T12:11:29Z

Xepe7236:

alkdjwed

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:08:07Z

Xepe7236:

[[File:141216wiki header ghosts.jpg|thumb |1083x1083px]]

== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS FINDING (...) ==

A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The book ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024.
Through essays, exercises and interviews ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' asks: Which ghosts haunt that burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, how being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

=== STATE OF WRITING ===

==== Essay: I am the Ghosts that haunt themselves ====
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb|left]]

==== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ====
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

==== Exercises I-VII (first draft): ====

=== STATE OF DESIGN ===
[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb|left]]

[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 1.jpg|left|thumb|564x564px]]

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 4.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 5.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 12.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 13.jpg
</gallery>

==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

[[File:Moodpboard image 1 -- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NEW-DOCUMENT- Typical Organisation for standards and order .jpg|thumb]]

<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation for Standards and Order >

=== SCREENSHOTS OF VIDEO-MATERIAL: Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

The footage will be edited to a larger scale 3 channel, narrative, video Installation. <gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.43.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.54.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.32.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.22.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.41.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.04.png
</gallery>

=== EXPERIMENTS ===

The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 3 1.jpg
File:Experimente 3 2.jpg
File:Experimente 3 3.jpg
File:Experimente 3 4.jpg
File:Experimente 3 5.jpg
</gallery>

====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

Foto: 18.Nov.2024<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 6.jpg
File:Experimente 2 7.jpg
File:Experimente 2 8.jpg
File:Experimente 2 9.jpg
</gallery>

====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 1.jpg
File:Experimente 2 2.jpg
File:Experimente 2 3.jpg
File:Experimente 2 4.jpg
File:Experimente 2 5.jpg
</gallery>

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:05:51Z

Xepe7236: /* STATE OF DESIGN */

[[File:141216wiki header ghosts.jpg|thumb |1083x1083px]]

== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS FINDING (...) ==

A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The book ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024.
Through essays, exercises and interviews ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' asks: Which ghosts haunt that burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, how being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

=== STATE OF WRITING ===

==== Essay: I am the Ghosts that haunt themselves ====
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb|left]]

==== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ====
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

=== STATE OF DESIGN ===
[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb|left]]

[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 1.jpg|left|thumb|564x564px]]

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 4.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 5.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 12.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 13.jpg
</gallery>

==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

[[File:Moodpboard image 1 -- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NEW-DOCUMENT- Typical Organisation for standards and order .jpg|thumb]]

<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation for Standards and Order >

=== SCREENSHOTS OF VIDEO-MATERIAL: Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

The footage will be edited to a larger scale 3 channel, narrative, video Installation. <gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.43.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.54.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.32.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.22.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.41.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.04.png
</gallery>

=== EXPERIMENTS ===

The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 3 1.jpg
File:Experimente 3 2.jpg
File:Experimente 3 3.jpg
File:Experimente 3 4.jpg
File:Experimente 3 5.jpg
</gallery>

====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

Foto: 18.Nov.2024<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 6.jpg
File:Experimente 2 7.jpg
File:Experimente 2 8.jpg
File:Experimente 2 9.jpg
</gallery>

====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 1.jpg
File:Experimente 2 2.jpg
File:Experimente 2 3.jpg
File:Experimente 2 4.jpg
File:Experimente 2 5.jpg
</gallery>

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:05:09Z

Xepe7236:

[[File:141216wiki header ghosts.jpg|thumb |1083x1083px]]

== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS FINDING (...) ==

A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The book ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024.
Through essays, exercises and interviews ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' asks: Which ghosts haunt that burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, how being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

=== STATE OF WRITING ===

==== Essay: I am the Ghosts that haunt themselves ====
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb|left]]

==== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ====
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

=== STATE OF DESIGN ===
[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 1.jpg|left|thumb|564x564px]]
[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb]]
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 4.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 5.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 12.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 13.jpg
</gallery>

==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

[[File:Moodpboard image 1 -- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NEW-DOCUMENT- Typical Organisation for standards and order .jpg|thumb]]

<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation for Standards and Order >

=== SCREENSHOTS OF VIDEO-MATERIAL: Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

The footage will be edited to a larger scale 3 channel, narrative, video Installation. <gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.43.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.54.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.32.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.22.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.41.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.04.png
</gallery>

=== EXPERIMENTS ===

The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 3 1.jpg
File:Experimente 3 2.jpg
File:Experimente 3 3.jpg
File:Experimente 3 4.jpg
File:Experimente 3 5.jpg
</gallery>

====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

Foto: 18.Nov.2024<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 6.jpg
File:Experimente 2 7.jpg
File:Experimente 2 8.jpg
File:Experimente 2 9.jpg
</gallery>

====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 1.jpg
File:Experimente 2 2.jpg
File:Experimente 2 3.jpg
File:Experimente 2 4.jpg
File:Experimente 2 5.jpg
</gallery>

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:04:00Z

Xepe7236:

[[File:141216wiki header ghosts.jpg|thumb |1083x1083px]]

== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS FINDING (...) ==

A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The book ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024.
Through essays, exercises and interviews ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' asks: Which ghosts haunt that burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, how being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

=== STATE OF WRITING ===

==== Essay: I am the Ghosts that haunt themselves ====
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb|left]]

==== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ====
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

=== STATE OF DESIGN ===
[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb]]
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="400" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 1.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 4.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 5.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 12.jpg
File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 13.jpg
</gallery>

==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

[[File:Moodpboard image 1 -- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NEW-DOCUMENT- Typical Organisation for standards and order .jpg|thumb]]

<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation for Standards and Order >

=== SCREENSHOTS OF VIDEO-MATERIAL: Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

The footage will be edited to a larger scale 3 channel, narrative, video Installation. <gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.43.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.54.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.32.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.22.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.41.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.04.png
</gallery>

=== EXPERIMENTS ===

The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 3 1.jpg
File:Experimente 3 2.jpg
File:Experimente 3 3.jpg
File:Experimente 3 4.jpg
File:Experimente 3 5.jpg
</gallery>

====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

Foto: 18.Nov.2024<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 6.jpg
File:Experimente 2 7.jpg
File:Experimente 2 8.jpg
File:Experimente 2 9.jpg
</gallery>

====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 1.jpg
File:Experimente 2 2.jpg
File:Experimente 2 3.jpg
File:Experimente 2 4.jpg
File:Experimente 2 5.jpg
</gallery>

GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:02:00Z

Xepe7236:

[[File:141216wiki header ghosts.jpg|thumb |1083x1083px]]

== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS FINDING (...) ==

A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The book ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024.
Through essays, exercises and interviews ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' asks: Which ghosts haunt that burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, how being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

=== STATE OF WRITING ===
== Essay: I am the Ghosts that haunt themselves ==
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb]]

== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ==
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

=== STATE OF DESIGN ===

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</gallery>

==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

[[File:Moodpboard image 1 -- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NEW-DOCUMENT- Typical Organisation for standards and order .jpg|thumb]]

<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation for Standards and Order >

=== SCREENSHOTS OF VIDEO-MATERIAL: Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

The footage will be edited to a larger scale 3 channel, narrative, video Installation. <gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.43.png
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</gallery>

=== EXPERIMENTS ===

The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 3 1.jpg
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</gallery>

====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

Foto: 18.Nov.2024<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 6.jpg
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====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

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File:Experimente 2 1.jpg
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GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Cosmo Schüppel

2024-12-16T12:01:42Z

Xepe7236: /* SCREENSHOTS OF VIDEO-MATERIAL: Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens */

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== GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS FINDING GHOSTS FINDI (...) ==

A strange sensation has begun to settle in my chest, a constant tug at my memory, but also a push toward something undefined. Perhaps it’s the memory of a moment just past. Perhaps it’s the fact that there are more than one, more than one layer, one whisper, one echo — still here but distant, felt but not understood.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies.
We can talk of ghosts as shadows cast from times lost, places forgotten. But what if it’s not the ghost that haunts us, but rather, we who haunt ourselves? The ghosts we encounter are never the past itself. Instead, they are–in their most concrete form traces and effects– and in their most abstract, what we imagine the past to be, what it means to us now, what we need it to be. In any case, it is the space between past and present, presence and absence where ghosts become almost.
In all cultures ghosts haunt places, humans, whole societies. They lean over from the in-between to haunt the human realm. Rarely we find stories of ghosts haunting each other in their natural habitats. But for humans it seems different. It is our own past that seems to haunt us, our own actions, mistakes, traumata and hopes.

The book ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' explores the omnipresence of anthropocentric ghosts through the lens of the wildfires in Nea Penteli (Athens) summer 2024.
Through essays, exercises and interviews ''Ghosts Finding Ghosts'' asks: Which ghosts haunt that burned landscape? Where do ghosts come from and where do they disappear to? What is the human role in creating ghosts? How can ghosts be experienced? Where are the borders of human sensing? And what is absence? What are traces?

<blockquote>
How alive is the dead?

What colours live in the Grey?

Ghosts are almost like Memories - They disappear when I try to hold on.

Eat un-nutritious food.

Stare at a digital landscape.

Stuff yourself with Expectations.

Find hope in simple Ideologies.

We are shielded by Ghosts.

Is this, how being haunted feels like?

</blockquote>

=== STATE OF WRITING ===
== Essay: I am the Ghosts that haunt themselves ==
This essay explores the notion that haunting emerges as a confrontation with ourselves, where ghosts are not the past but traces shaped by our memories, traumas, and needs. They dwell in the in-between, blurring the line between presence and absence, reflecting how humans are haunted by their own actions and histories.

[[File:I am ghosts that haunt themselves.pdf|thumb]]

== Essay: Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss: ==
Memories, ghosts, and systems intertwine to shape our haunted existence, blurring the lines between past, present, and imagined futures. As the Anthropocene disrupts natural and cultural rhythms, haunting becomes a way to understand our disconnection—where nature, systems, and memory act as almost-living agents, challenging human orientation in a fractured world.

[[File:Haunted by Systems, Haunted by Loss.pdf|border]]

=== STATE OF DESIGN ===

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 1.jpg|thumb]]
[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 4.jpg|thumb]]
[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 5.jpg|thumb]]
[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 12.jpg|thumb]]
[[File:241216ghosts finding ghosts tests 13.jpg|thumb]]
</gallery>

==== Inspiration ====
[[File:Fantasma - Jannete Mark.jpg|thumb|left|300x300px]]<Fantasma - Jannete Mark

[[File:Moodpboard image 1 -- ghosts finding ghosts.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:NEW-DOCUMENT- Typical Organisation for standards and order .jpg|thumb]]

<Editor: Unknown

New Document: Typical Organisation for Standards and Order >

=== SCREENSHOTS OF VIDEO-MATERIAL: Wasteland of post-wildfire NEA PENTELI, Athens ===
In a broader scope the project should develop to an experimental documentary film. In it, the site is used as an anchor point to collect perspectives on ghosts and the destruction organic habitats. Scientists, Philosophers, Ghost Hunters, Farmers, Firemen, Poets and others explore the site through their own means of research and explain their perspective on this. This creates a divers, poetic image of a haunted place - moving between reality and fiction and science and art.

The footage will be edited to a larger scale 3 channel, narrative, video Installation. <gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.43.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.01.54.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.32.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.22.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.41.png
File:Screenshot 2024-11-04 at 14.02.04.png
</gallery>

=== EXPERIMENTS ===

The following experiments are conducted to explore the sleeping life in the ashes of the Nea Penteli Wildfires. They are to be seem rather symbolic than scientific, as the ashes were probably contaminated on their travel to Weimar. Nonetheless, the image of colours growing from grey; life rising from the dead ash -- is a powerful one.

====== Experiment ONE: Fishing for Ghosts ======
This fist experiment throws out hooks into the different kingdoms of organisms, to test what lives inside the ashes of the 2024 Athens Wildfires.

MALT EXTRACT MEDIUM

Plating: 9.11.2024

Fotos (front + back): 14.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 3 1.jpg
File:Experimente 3 2.jpg
File:Experimente 3 3.jpg
File:Experimente 3 4.jpg
File:Experimente 3 5.jpg
</gallery>

====== ISOLATION OF SINGULAR BEINGS: 14.Nov.2024 ======
Plating: 14.Nov.2024

Foto: 18.Nov.2024<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 6.jpg
File:Experimente 2 7.jpg
File:Experimente 2 8.jpg
File:Experimente 2 9.jpg
</gallery>

====== LB-MEDIUM ======
Plating (Foto ONE) :14.Nov.2024

Foto TWO: 18.Nov.2024

<gallery mode="nolines" widths="800" heights="800" perrow="2">
File:Experimente 2 1.jpg
File:Experimente 2 2.jpg
File:Experimente 2 3.jpg
File:Experimente 2 4.jpg
File:Experimente 2 5.jpg
</gallery>