Profound Darkness and Energy Landscape Yesterday, 22nd March, 2018 the Last White Rhinoceros of its species died. Later the same day, the circus arrived in lund.
Early TAXONOMIES OF ENERGY GARDENS, EXPLORATIONS ON POTENTIALS
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UNFINISHED AND“CLOSED CAPTIONED”
BRAZIL-JACK CIRCUS ARRIVAL IN LUND 22ND MARCH/2018
Energy Gardens Unfinished Catalogue Access to Tools
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To the Last White Rhinoceros of its species who died yesterday, 22nd March, 2018
[THE INVISIBLE COMMITTEE] “It’s understood that now everything can only go from bad to worse. “There’s no future for the future” is the wisdom behind an era that for all its appearances of extreme normalcy has come to have about the consciousness level of the first punks” Invisible commitee, The coming Insurrection.
INDex 0.INTRO 1.LENSES 2.MICROSCAPES 3.GOING LIVE or Potentials
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control, effect and influence
[FADE IN] “From a rather profound darkness (a presumed “pixelated” reality) this illustrated trip evolves into a glimpse of light, energised by bright dots that emerge from the possibilities of open space available in a species of outlaw territory. An excluded space living outside a regular generative grid. may revive as an actual generator, and mutate into a dormant ecology of possibilities.
biking close every morning to this collection of electric machinery. It’s an inaccesible place full of warning signs that inspires curiosity A set of sculptural rubber wires. A map of different explored areas that together have shaped a mental imaginary of an area where I move in Lund.
[VOICE OVER] MATCHING DOTS : Almost dismissed, A dark mass of space, with intriguing qualities, Inspired ad-hoc, domestic and on-site methods to recreate the Alien-like anatomy of the body of study . Pick- pocketing on Gunther Vogt’s “Landscape as A Curiosity Cabinet” approach, Felcity Scott Brown’s “Outlaw Territory” and the spirit of “The Whole Earth Catalogue” this is an unofficial Taxonomy of some unapproachable- high voltage alien-scapes - . An incomplete “access to Tools” directory to an emerging landscape pregnant with emancipatory and open space potential//.
//...This compendium attempts experimental approaches to an inaccessible, urban void that appears as a species of dark matter.
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[INTRO]
Inspired by a miscellanea of sources which deal with parallel struggles,this catalogue, pretends early start immersions into the imminent ubiquity of the Energy landscape; Its capacity for transformation and potentials that emerge from generated open spaces, what we’d like to call -Voids-. Space as by-product of neglected, Mcdonalized urban areas, dead, abandoned and anonymous. Throughout a sort of screenplay script, glimpses of colour are gradually revealed as a more animated character emerges from on-site immersions.
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Resistance
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cut 0.2 [narrator] Formatted in an undisciplined screenplay fashion. as scenes that were lived on-site. This frame-by-frame narrative pretends, almost as a set of random memories, recreate a process based, open to interpretation image of a particular urban phenomena often dismissed by indifferent eyes and many types of blindness.
[LENSES] 1.1 PERIMETER WALKS 1.2 BINOCULARS 1.3 SNIPER VIEW 1.4 BIPEDALS
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[PERIMETER WALKS]
High Voltage Ecologies Taxonomies of “No Entry”
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FOLKES CAR RENTAL [HIGHWAY NOISE] ♬ Urban sprawl, A sort of L.A. teletransported to Lund’s west Car rentals, enormous commercial surfaces, and car-based urbanities.
CARAVANS WAIT FOR SUMMER, A SENSE OF DEAD NATURE DURING WINTER WITH SNOW-COVERED CARS
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[ELECTRIC WAVE VIBRATIONS] Negatives// a sort of blindness, an urban blind spot, MUTE, WITH SIGNS indicating “no entry”,
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ON NEXT FRAME .
NO ENTRY
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“High Voltage’, “Warning”. TILLTRADE FORBJUDET
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[BINOCULARS] looking through wire fences
Looking through small holes in the fence, a realised complextity of rubber and metals. A literal encounter with Electric Potential itself.
bolts and Nuts
Sculptural machines, climbing natures, springs,
RESISTANCE
CUMULATIVE POTENTIALS Tubes and Pipes
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Nature’s incidence on Machinery
Unknown Species
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[SNIPER VIEW] a Window lense As a constant target, from my corridor room I’ve witnessed a daily metamorphosis. From snow covered machines to industrial ruins. .
[DOMESTICS] Almost as a domestic endeavour, Site analysis became a House-keeping. An everyday observation excercise. The impenetrability however, inpired Anti-disciplinary methods that reflect in a way “Michel De Certeau’s” statements in his theorising around “The Practice of Everyday Life” “De Certeau develops a theoretical framework for analyzing how the `weak’ make use of the `strong’ and create for themselves a sphere of autonomous action and self-determination within the constraints that are imposed on them.”
“(thus, in the supermarket, the housewife confronts heterogeneous and mobile data—what she has in the refrigerator, the tastes, appetites, and moods of her guests, the best buys and their possible combinations with what she already has on hand at home, etc.)”
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ERIKSHJALPEN SECOND HAND
Resistance, made of rubber
FOLKES CAR RENTAL
From the Practice of Everyday Life, By Michel De Certeau
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[BIPEDALS]
Biking to a Wider Constellation allotment gardens
VILDANDEN 5A
MASTERS PARK
Everyday bike rides from home to Lund University, reveal a wider influence of ths substation. Masters Park, and a second hand store enter the area of influence.
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[micro-SCAPES] Allotment Gardens -INCURSIONS-
[TRESSPASSER] Unable to access the actual area of study, I was able to walk through the adjacent allotment gardens and get, yet another perspective, a new lense. A rather spectral world opened up. Micro-encounters with strangers, small chats with people who cross- by walking their dogs and abandoned pieces of material, became fundamental specimen. A cabinet of Curiosity opens... [door opening sound]
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[The Curiosity Cabinet]
Creating a Multi-Cosmos & The Emergence of Life from Static Substance
SECOND HAND HORSES
[... ELECTRIC POTENTIAL
whispering]
there was in fact a whole set of Microcosmos, “landscape bowls”, rich in stories, words and shapes. There were blind dogs playing with tennis balls, Second hand shops, and second hand horses.
COLLECTING= PRACTICE THAT EMBRACES THE DIVERSITIES OF THE WORLD
“non human interactions”
Method to Ap
POWER OF COLLECTIONS FROM IMMOBILE MATTER TO LIVE ASSOCIATIONS “there is no electricity here”
“My dog? He is Blind. And deaf”
pproach Landscape Embracing awareness of non- existence of a “Whole” [Nature]
[GUNTHER VOGT’S] “LANDSCAPE AS A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES” “this made me think then, about Gunter Vogts, curiosity cabinet and his ideas on “Multi cosmos”. a Method he uses to approach site analysis and Landscape. Running on the background of my experiences at the Substation, the idea of -collecting- emerged, as mimic of Vogts method.
“Each object conjured the distant landscape
[Packed Scapes] Leafs, Toys, water and stones
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[WORDSCAPES] Translating Chats, Whisperings, sounds
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[TABLESCAPE] The Table Scape Inventory of tools of products used MICROCOSMOS COLLAGE during the analysis
[Transcripts] Micro encounters and Nano-Chats with strangers
[A Second Hand Horse from ERIKSHJALPEN] Articulated toy as vehicle for urban appropriation
e and culture from which it was taken. Assembled, they formed a microcosm of the entwined human and nonhuman worlds.”
gJu e o”] s p l ly el ca t H s o on Ap au ti law [“ ern c t u d g od “Ou an he t tr ” In the ory of att t C o i t rr ri th Te spi Ear ” e ge e th Hol alo W “
[OUTLAW TERRITORIES] [LOST LANDSCAPES]
[GUNTHER VOGT’S METHOD]
[Live Collages]
“by remov-ing objects from the cabinets and placing them on a table to stimulate discussion. Only afterwards does site-specific analysis into biophysical systems begin,” from GÜNTHER VOGT’S MULTIFORM COSMOS, by Jane Hutton
2.2.1 Labelling and categorising, lies at the core of human obsessions towards understanding and finding meaning. Complexity emerges though, from immobile matter, and interpretations from collisions between materials and objects are subjectively created from memories and personal experience.
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[PETROSCAPE] LIFE FROM STONES
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Looking through small holes in [BAGGEDSCAPES] theLandscape fence, a Suspensions realised complexin tity ofPlastic rubber Bags and metals. Potential itself.
2.2.2 Miniature Horse
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melted snow, particles and stones
2.2.9 Dog Owner [female]
fallen
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n leaf
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living matter
miniatures, as vehicles for appropriation
intersections between landscape and animated beings
rotation of previously shown leaf
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[ROAMING] 1.
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[PETROSCAPE] Life from Stones Static Animations: From Dark Matter Landscapes.
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Sold as high end nutritional products in japan, The matsusake mushrooms, grow from hostile environments such as Chernobyl Nuclear disaster Ruins, This hairy stone I found in the allotment Gardens, just adjacent to the electrical substation, reminded me of that potential for life from hostility. A green shrub growing from a stone? I wonder what type of beings live there.
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5. [intersections]. the fluidity Rotations of a stone found in adjacent allotment 4. of this rotating stones -movement of static matter- inspired the following frames on “live collage” // ... gardens.
A.G 2. FIRST COLLECTIONS On The Potential for life emerging from abandonment
Glimpses at noon January 26th , 12:47 EVERY MORNING, SINCE THE FIRST ARRIVAL, A BANNED PLACE, RESIDUE OF INFRASTRUCTURAL COMPLEXITIES PRESENTED ITSELF AS IMPENETRABLE, MISTERIOUS MATTER. vv
...//In an attempt to bring life to a dormant urban void, an intersection of collected material, provided the scenario for photomontages that explore animated environments in slept, static platforms.
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[LIVE COLLAGE]
E.H A.G
Location diagr intersection b Second hand sh Setting for pe
Scale Experiments, appropriation vehicles and Performances
The second hand horse, Erikshjalpen second han spatial appropriation a
ram: between ERIKSJHALPEN hop and the Allotment Gardens erformance.
an abandoned toy found at the nd shop, became a vehicle for and gathering of data.
...At the core of this performance, is the appropriation of alien urban space. A kid-like attitude, a sort of “Home- Alone� study, generated information that involved pedestrians who crossed by, walking their dogs, watching for their gardens, mostly curious about the enigmatic objects inhabitating the space. Micro-encounters, quick-chats that would later lead to further explorations
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[GOING LIVE]
Broadcasting Potentials and coming Revolutions
The third industrial Revolution is imminent.
By 2050 the transition from the “intercity” to the “internet will likely reach its development peak.
Electric substations will become broadcasting power plants that will serve an internet based community.
Networks density might become unsustainable.
Emancipatory potential from emptiness
The Hitchhikers’ mindset,
A network society that will share water, Electricity and gas through “shared” ecologies will need open space to allow for new infrastructure.
whats the future environment , this type of open space will be dealing with?. What are the potentials.?
Far back in the 60’s, the whole earth catalogue provided hints of emancipating mindsets and landscapes/...
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[An Image] With an Image stuck in mind. That Hitchhikers Landscape of potential. And not by choice, a bit Hungry, and hopeless. Suddenly The energy landscape appears again in the kitchen’s window (West Facade). This time looking furhter west I realised the dimensions of the Void exceeded my capacity to measure its potential.
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[UBIQUITY OF GENERATORS] Potentials of The Open
“Finally, a collector is concerned with empty space, with allowing fragments to be juxtaposed and incomplete“ from GÜNTHER VOGT’S MULTIFORM COSMOS, by Jane Hutton
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[OPEN SPACE]
Voids Dimensions and Measuring the Unmeasurable
[thinking out loud] Exceeding standard capacities and metric abilities. The place had proven unmeasurable, I embarked then on a “Last Walk�.
...By channeling the circulation of people, goods, and mes sages, they have transformed spatial relations by establishing lines of force that are privileged over the places and people left outside those lines.”
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[LAST WALK] Finding Rinnevacksravinen Reserve through LINES OF POWER
“...These pathways are also corridors of power, with power being under both its technological and political senses.”
“Systems of connection-the pathways of modern life-trans formed the natural landscape in ways that were immediately visible and often dramatic ...
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-Rosalind Williams, Cultural Origins and Environmental Implications of Large Technological Systems, 1993
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[BIRDS EMANCIPATION]
Life Lines, a collage towards a bird’s flight through electric lines
“The safegarded zones under power lines have limited uses due to safety provisions , but the ecological and recreational potential of the network of this zones is considerable�.
[grasping realities] The emancipatory possibilities during the raise of a dense electric network may be endless. Particularly for non human species, the capacity for connectivity and boundaries transgression represent an uncommon opportunity for reconnecting ecological fractures.
“Public space under high-voltag transmission towers seems controversial, but is not dangerous, and can actually contribute a great deal to the social acceptance of new sustainable infrastructures in our immediate living environment.“
The seemingly dormant, “sleeping” distribution plant where this trip started, mutated into a quiet seed for potential future development. Power lines led to a landscape discovery, which was inexistent, adjacent open spaces created possibilities for mapping matter and urban life. The energy landscape incubates a mesh of development lines that lead to generative prospects.
[exit] the circus stayed until the 28th of March, the park that hosted the ephemeral event that brought sound and life during night time is now empty again. It’s been about six days since white Rhino species disappeared. 29.03.18. 12:44am
“...We inherit from modernity a conception of space as an empty, uniform, and measurable expanse where objects, creatures, or landscapes occupy their place. But the sensible world does not present itself to us in that way. Space is not neutral. Things and beings don’t occupy a geometric position, but affect it and are affected by it. Places are irreducibly loaded—with stories, impressions, emotions.” “To Our Friends”, The Invisible Committee