collaboration with spurse

How do we understand the present? What new provisional conceptual articulations of the world are necessary today?
As we move through our lived experiences we utilize various complex conceptual systems which set up and shape a particular form of world. This conceptual world stretches out ahead of us and is not a world that we make as we wish -- but we, through our actions, are part of its continuous co-construction. This project ask people to participate by filling out a questionnaire. This questionnaire can be filled out by answering a set of questions, writing ones own text, by making a diagram or an other form of drawing, or by phoning us and leaving a message (all of the information is on the questionnaire form). The forms can be downloaded from this page. As we receive the forms we will then collate and synthesize the cosmologies on a weekly basis and send everyone who participates a weekly three-dimensional representation of the synthesis. Ideally we hope that people participate on a regular basis -- adding to the developing systems over the duration of the research period (seven weeks).

The Synthesized diagrams have a second life: we will use these diagrams to compose a large changing table diagram. This Table is part of an exhibit at Grand Arts in Kansas City (MO) called “From the Fat of the Land”. We, spurse, have been invited to participate in this project as we work on a larger research project with Grand Arts that will reconsider approaches to ethics, deep-time and rapid climate change. This project will use the space between Kansas City and Igaluit as a region of inquiry.