poetic tactics to counter extraction (and other tools to train attention)
Poetic tactics to counter extraction (and other tools to train attention) is a long-term research project
Poetic tactics investigated the meeting point between the abstraction of poetry, the process of datafication, and extractive processes through audio recordings and sensory practices more specifically.
Check out the project slides here
The project aimed to to bring together a body of work that aims to answer the following questions:
- How do we counter the embodied ethos of extraction?
- How can we gather existing techniques – and develop new ways of engaging with our bodies to combat extraction’s effects?
- How can the metaphor of poetry can be used to combat the abstraction of datafication?
- When physical extraction is constitutive of digital culture, as well as a pervasive ethos and social norm, what role can poetry (and poetic tactics) play?
Over the course of two years, I investigated this theme
So far, there have been a number of different outputs:
- Workshops on somatic mapping and poetic meditations (including ‘mapping meditations’ and deep listening exercises)
- Multimedia installations (including trace and elegies)
- Poetry series
- Microsite
In many ways, this project continues on, but in p
From 2023-2024, this work was supported by the ‘School of Commons’, based at the Zurich University of the Arts and online. Learn more on the School of Commons website