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Agent 4 pretty short 😃

“Sound is the genius loci or the very spirit of place’.

Immersive Arts is about relearning, creating worlds. My grief allow me to mine fresh ways into the immersive?

Voices of Coal is a story that has sat within me for over a decade.  It found it’s edges by recently reading David Farrier’s Anthropocene poetics.  David speaks of ‘Thick Time’ which resonated.  The weight of time was felt when my brother was diagnosed terminal.  He lived for a further four years after his diagnosis. Feelings were surpressed, eclipsed by practical thoughts of how my Dad continues to live on after my brother.  Entangled with extinction studies, understanding the precarity of life brought comfort, realising multispecies narratives, an unfolding of time. The early onset of my brothers death brought the need for more understanding. 

Anna Tsing asks us to know the world without progress stories, her book sketches open-ended assemblages of entangled ways of life, as these coalesce in coordination across many kinds of temporal rhythms."

In Extraction to Extinction, David Howe traces our environmental impact through time to unearth how our obsession with endlessly producing and throwing away more and more stuff has pushed the planet to its limit. And he considers the question: what does the future look like for our depleted world?

Stefan Skirmish curation, Thinking through Extinction.