{{ettinger_bracha_and_my_heart_wound_space.pdf|brache_ettinger_and_my_heart_wound_space}} \\ \\ Breathing into the Ecological Trauma:The Case of Gruinard Island\\ https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/638234/638235 \\ How can I encounter the spaces of our environment that are deeply related to human agency, destruction and also a very male ideology.\\ thinking about a traumatized landscpae of our environment \\ How can I approach these spaces? All the established methodologies seem way to reductionist, the ambivalences we are faced with \\ A different methodology what surrounds us, making the performative encounter with a place... How can I understand my responsability in the destruction of the global \\ The ongoing discussion of the anthropocene brings about a new understanding of the world. How can I encounter this condition of the anthropocene - important to do this project in an affirmative way (against narration of extrinction)\\ **It is not about negating it, but embracing it** \\ Clark: We need these new practices & methodologies,we need to formulate an alliance with these actants that could possibly also kill us \\ work with the aspect of trauma & destruction - with the aim to relate to these traumatized people and places, to forge a methodology of co-existence with these players that could potentially kill me \\ __present danger is invisible, this ambivalence of not seeing and feeling anything about that__ \\ How can I understand the trauma & grief inscribed in this place \\ "I have to be present at this place" - insert my body in that place, to go there and to breathe the air that could potentially kill me --> **affirmative approach**\\ \\ Bela Tarr: "The Turin Horse"\\ not the hopelessness of darkness & extinction, but breathing that persists, something new and hopeful might emerge (the storm is over) \\ I have to go to the border of death\\ Sth. new might arise, a new way of dealing with the trauma of the world, also a new way to feel responsible, to lead this total darkness into a condition of certain light\\ \\ __no dialctics anymore but an inherent paradox we face:__ the air i needed to live but with the same I could also die from: maybe humans have to learn how to breathe "Non-Air" --> immediate relationalities, practice of being close\\ The __aspect of carrying__: fragilazing myslef \\ __Bracha Ettinger__\\ Carrying is knowledge - to find a different methodolgy of encountering the world\\ The link between space-wound-trauma: an etymological relation, the possibility of encountering a place, a wound/ trauma --> there is this performative moment, the possibility of creating something new Immediate encounter, attentiveness to sensations, to places, simply to listen what a place is telling \\ \\ accessability to trauma, to a more hopeful direction. How this whole investigation can be applied a tool, as an alternative approach towards the ongoing violence in the past-present-future..\\ establishing the connectivity with an "otherness" \\ \\ my body a investigative tool - immersion into traumatized places -> breathing is making the relation to the other also brings the other into me\\ \\ trans-subjectivity: understanding of human subjectivity, human subjects not singular, but trans-subjective