_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Re-Enchanting the Field Art x Science School for Transformation Research
Proposal/ Idea Expansion Blended Intensive Program
Investigation Expectations
This investigation revolves around exploring materiality, fluidity and transformation within the context of oil shale extraction in Narva Estonia. Through visualizing and defining the agencies that are at play, the investigation probes into socio-environmental consequences of extractivist processes and ideologies. This in part with the heavy imperial history and present that have rendered material, people, and systems alike, politicized.
Under the pretenses of Baradian concepts and the greater New Materialist perspective, the investigation aims to circumvent traditional and mechanistic outlooks on matter and society at which foster extractivist, neo-colonial, exclusive, capitalistic and regressive modes of thinking that endanger epistemic plurality.