GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Helena Haak

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IDEA PAPER (in progress…)

Working title: Resilience Stories

background info

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description: main object/focus of fieldwork, research question, anticipated outcomes

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technical description: tools, method, process

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references

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notes - IDEA PAPER Die Region um Narva hat viel erlebt… Aber mit welchem Recht soll ich darüber berichten…?

ich möchte zuhören, den Ort, die Menschen, Pflanzen, Tiere, Elemente… selbst ihre Geschichten erzählen lassen


Asche = Erinnerung …Tinte aus Asche? …Pigmente …Eggtemphra …Öl?

ein einheitliches Medium um Geschichten zu sammeln, als Collage zusammenzufügen

mit offenen Sinnen den Geschichten lauschen… Neugier, entdecken… zuhören

Menschen Schreiben mit der Farbe ihre Erlebnisse auf, eine Eidechse läuft übers Blatt, drucken mit Pflanzen vor Ort, der Regen lässt die Farbe verwischen…

was macht sie alle stark? Woher kommt die Wiederstandskraft?



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Objective

▪ Tracing mutual shaping of human activity and elemental flows in post-natural

landscape

▪ Mapping recurrent cycles of death, decomposition and renewal at the

intersection of changing geo/biopolitical imaginaries and energy regimes

Your task

▪ Tracing how objects, bodies, plants, organisms and places are linked into

relations of mutual shaping and interdependence

▪ Emphasis 1: trace shifting boundaries of waste, residue and how they facilitate,

diffract and/or redistribute life-enabling or constraining potentials and

capacities across times and scales

▪ Emphasis 2: unpack less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements

emerging from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ of land, bodies, ecosystems, or

soils, etc.

▪ Feel free to set your own focus within the main objectives of this program

Key Steps (in preparation of field week)

▪ Select an object, organism, specimen, people or places to study

▪ Conduct preparatory research on recomposition of elemental flows it/they

embody and their effects

▪ Summarize your research interest/planned experiment in an idea paper on the

course wiki

o 5+ sentences background info,

o 10+ sentences description: main object/focus of fieldwork, research

question, anticipated outcomes

o 5+ technical description: tools, method, process

o 5+ references