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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