The Earth Of (3): Ruptures and Reckonings
October 11 - November 20, 2021
Virtual Workshop directed by Andrew Helton & Ginger Teppner
The Earth Of: Ruptures and Reckonings is a collective virtual space of inquiry. Through writing and discourse we investigate how to manifest and inhabit the fractures that pervade our lives, allowing for the creative space to grow organically through digressions, tangents, musings, and synchronistic linkages.
What does it mean when humanity crosses a threshold of such significance it manifests as a rupture, when the world is on the cusp? The brain wants to organize, filter, and separate out. Yet, beyond the confusion perpetrated by language that fails to adequately define, are spaces. We find meaning when we implicitly inhabit these spaces—gestures that guide the cracks to spread toward shattering. These moments of rupture burst forth from gesture into reckoning, exposing us to what is real and true and essential.
Week One: I am Ten Birds Flying Away
There are so Many Variations of Life
Week Two: Will They Notice What Imprint Remains?
Vulnerability and Integrity are Revolutionary Acts
Week Three: Bees Have to Move Very Fast to Stay Still:
Images, Lies, and the Appropriation of Perceptual Fields
Week Four: What are the Collective Silences?
Atomic Shadows and the Ashes of History
Week Five: Workshop and Final Reading
The Earth of (3): Ruptures and Reckonings Final Reading