Desert Attunement Research Efforts (D.A.R.E.) designs a series of exercises to adjust our comportment to the desert ecology of the Southwest. Each exercise is site specific. It is specific in the way that a place calls to us to listen to it, to adjust our bodies to its openness and closedness, its textures and colors, its speeds and slownesses. Each exercise becomes a series of efforts to align ourselves to the place. It is like yoga poses for desert environments--each adjusting the body, opening and stretching the appendages, reconfiguring what it means to have a body in a place, in this place. While each exercise spawns from the specificity of a site, these exercises can be taken elsewhere with different results since each place creates different alignments of body to surrounds.
The antenna reminds us that we are immersed in a plenum. Seeing the antenna we realize the air is thick, replete with vibrations. The antenna is a visible sign of our invisible involution in the medium of air with all its sensation calling out, signaling, tugging at the world. The frail wire has a nonhuman sensitivity that responds to the imperative of the waves, to a cosmic tug in the air.
Geomedia connects us to Gaia and in its most wonderful moments shuffles off humanism to arrive in other states of affairs.