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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. | |||
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. | 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. | 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. | 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 | 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? | 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? | ||
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== STATE OF WRITING == | == STATE OF WRITING == | ||
==== Essay: I am the Ghosts that | ==== 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. | 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. | ||
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== STATE OF DESIGN == | == STATE OF DESIGN == | ||
[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb|left]] | PDF: Tests for Design[[File:241216finding ghosts tests.pdf|thumb|left]] | ||
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The text (Ghosts Finding Ghosts...) will be printed on a separate, translucent paper - functioning as a cover for the book. | |||
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== 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.]] | |||
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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. | |||