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I feel disconnected to nature. | I feel disconnected to nature. | ||
I understand that I have never had | I understand that I and my recent ancestors have never had a flowing connection with the spirits of the land. This project is a personal exploration of methodologies to find ways of countering that disconnection and form new relations with Land close to me, in this case the river Ilm in Weimar. | ||
This project is a personal exploration of methodologies to find ways of countering that disconnection and form new relations with | |||
Through a series of rituals, sensing experiments and forms of storytelling I seek to challenge myself towards a more spiritual and reciprocal connection with the river, to find ways to deeply engage with the land around my highly urbanised lifestyle. Acknowledging that colonialism, white privilege, dominant scientific practice and capitalism have shaped my worldview and my relationships with more-than-human worlds I choose to stretch my imagination towards possible futures of co-evolution: to imagine how a close relationship with a body of water might look. What a spiritual connection to water might entail, resemble, or signify. What can I offer a river to form a mutually beneficial relationship? | Through a series of rituals, sensing experiments and forms of storytelling I seek to challenge myself towards a more spiritual and reciprocal connection with the river, to find ways to deeply engage with the land around my highly urbanised lifestyle. Acknowledging that colonialism, white privilege, dominant scientific practice and capitalism have shaped my worldview and my relationships with more-than-human worlds I choose to stretch my imagination towards possible futures of co-evolution: to imagine how a close relationship with a body of water might look. What a spiritual connection to water might entail, resemble, or signify. What can I offer a river to form a mutually beneficial relationship? | ||
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*Explore future narratives, how might ritual change the relationship between the Ilm and I when practiced across generations? | *Explore future narratives, how might ritual change the relationship between the Ilm and I when practiced across generations? | ||
*Through ritual and storytelling bring into being new possibilities. | *Through ritual and storytelling bring into being new possibilities. | ||
*Digital storytelling tools: VR, audio | *Digital storytelling tools: VR, audio. This side of the project has been explored in the Fachmodul Immersive Essays and takes the form of a ritual experience in VR | ||
The process and outcomes of this research have been collected in this wiki and in the form of a book. The book contains; the outline for each Ritual 1 - 8 including the aims and instructions, a personal reflection on each ritual after its completion and photo documentation. It also includes the beginnings of speculative stories and assemblages created by the river. | |||
[[RITUALS]] | |||
[[WORKING PROCESS]] | [[WORKING PROCESS]] | ||
[[Inspiration and References]] | [[Inspiration and References]] | ||