Dear Katrina!!

So long! :)

We are coming back to you to let you know that we recently used for an artwork one of the tracks of the amazing work you did based on Ultrasonic Dreams. It will be exhibited in the Estuary Festival organized by Metal, and the piece will show individually in a cargo container on the edge of the thames estaury. It is called 'Sinking Alloyances + Planetary Burial' and you can find it on-line here: http://ddivision.xyz/rockrepo/sinking

We still dream of publishing The Album ;) but haven't found a situation yet. 

Thank you again for this work,

Femke + Helen + Jara


Sinking Alloyances + Planetary Burial is the ninth entry to the ROCK REPO - an ongoing enquiry into computational, mineral time and matter.

Artist collective The Underground Division (Helen Pritchard, Jara Rocha, Femke Snelting) have created a new audiovisual installation (3D renderings, models, sound and text) presented at the newly transformed Eco Gallery at Wat Tyler Country Park.

Planetary estuary environments are recognised for their capacities to capture and store carbon, known as carbon sequestering. Quantified, measured and commodified as sinks for so-called 'bluecarbon', saltmarshes are rendered back into the flows of carbon trade. 

This new artwork meditates on what it means to compute the volumes of carbon that are ‘buried’; the microbiomes and topologies, held together by root lattices of cordgrass in estuaries and mangroves across the world. Showing the liveliness and abundance of estuaries that is in excess of capture.





Sinking Alloyances + Planetary Burial, The Underground Division (2021)
Sound: Shadow Graphs, Katrina Burch aka Yoneda Lemma feat. Ultrasonic Dreams (2020)

Commissioned by 



The first seven amalgamates were made for Body Building (TETEM: Enschede, 2020). The 8th amalgam is titled Violent Amalgamations and was developed for the on-line exhibition ¿Cómo continuar? (Centro Cultural de España in Lima, Peru; forthcoming, 2020). The 9th, Sinking Alloyances + Planetary Burial, is an audiovisual installation at a container near the Thames, commissioned by Metal for the Estuary Festival 2021.



<p><strong>Shadow_Graphs.wav</strong><br>
Katrina Burch aka<br>
Yoneda Lemma (2020)<br>
65.869.456 bytes<br>
44100 Hz / 6:13"</p>

<p><strong>Shadow_Graphs</strong><br>
44100 Hz</p>

<p><strong>Sedimentation from a buoyant freshwater plume</strong><br>
Rouhnia, M. and Strom, K. (2017)<br>
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans<br>
DOI: 10.1002/2016JC012053</p>



<p><strong class="hi">Alloyances = Alloys + Alliances</strong></p></div>

<p><strong>Halite</strong> (salt)<br>
Locality: Cacica, Romania / No.: 7259<br>
Size: 14 cm x 12 cm x 11 cm<br>
Formula: NaCl</p>

<p><strong>Halite</strong> (salt)<br>
Formula: NaCl</p>

<strong>Common cordgrass</strong> (Spartina)<br>
Geometry Triangles 46.9k<br>
Vertices 41.3k</p>

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video
https://vimeo.com/205594887




unjust trade in plain sight!
excess just in time not enough too much less than expected never enough always too late out of time


14 april 
Sahdow graphs... Sound .... and what they will run it from 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RimufrrGdvk

9 april, to-do

JR - thinks of how the 3 layers of text go: list of estuaries, short 2-sentences part [below] and ticker with values/formulas
FS - sketch elements with text files
HP - sketch elements with helpers/gound
JR - think of background!

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txt for the ticker: 
    formulas?
http://www.asb.cgiar.org/PDFwebdocs/Measuring%20Carbon%20stocks%20across%20land%20use%20systems.pdf
chart?
https://6fefcbb86e61af1b2fc4-c70d8ead6ced550b4d987d7c03fcdd1d.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/cms/reports/documents/000/005/651/original/CDP_Global_Carbon_Price_report_2021.pdf?1618938446
glossary?
https://ampd.epa.gov/ampd/

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The basis for area-based carbon stock accounting is an equation to estimate the changes in carbon stock within and between land cover classes, with each characterized as a fraction (ai) of the total area (A) (the stratum weighting) and each with a time-dependent carbon stock density Ci,t (the stratum mean). 

∆++=+>−∑))()((,,1,,1,1,1tititititinititttCaaCC

Where: ∆C = annual change in carbon stocks in the landscape in Mg yr-1 or t yr-1

Carbon stock density consists of the aboveground and belowground biomass, above-ground necromass and soil organic matter. The total annual change of carbon stock at the landscape level is the sum of the area of each transition of land uses multiplied by the total changes in C stock for each transition per unit area, divided by the time period. The changes accounted for are net changes, that is, the sum of gains and losses.


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The basis for area-based carbon stock accounting is an equation to estimate the changes in carbon stock within and between land cover classes, with each characterized as a fraction (ai) of the total area (A) (the stratum weighting) and each with a time-dependent carbon stock density Cᵢ,𝑡(the stratum mean). ∆C−>𝑡->𝑡+₁ = A𝑡{ⁿ∑ᵢ=₁(aᵢ,𝑡  (Cᵢ,𝑡+₁ − Cᵢ )+(aᵢ,𝑡+₁ − aᵢ )Cᵢ,𝑡)}. ∆C = annual change in carbon stocks in the landscape in Mg yr-1 or t yr-1. Carbon stock density consists of the aboveground and belowground biomass, aboveground necromass and soil organic matter. The total annual change of carbon stock at the landscape level is the sum of the area of each transition of land uses multiplied by the total changes in C stock for each transition per unit area, divided by the time period. 



8 april
Sinking Alloyances + Planetary Burial


a time of ups
a time of downs

along flows of trade and hence of debt

a monoculture of remoteness
long term capture

agile trade with the non living
in subsurface kingdom dysphoria

measuring a time
a tense symmetry

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a time of downs
along flows of trade and hence of debt

a monoculture of remoteness

long term capture
agile trade with the non living

in subsurface kingdom dysphoria
measuring a time

a tense symmetry
a time of ups

--


along flows of trade and hence of debt

a monoculture of remoteness
long term capture

agile trade with the non living

in subsurface kingdom dysphoria
measuring a time

a tense symmetry

a time of ups
a time of downs



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agile dysphoria for trading better

measuring a time 
of tense symmetry

cordgrass in the mud and
the muddled logics within

beyond the brow of justitia 

the lattice of elements that constitute a biome

trade of life
with salt, carbon, water, ground

not staying with the living only

the ups and downs of salt syntax
dispensate agile computing along mangroves

trade with the not living
in subsurface kingdom dysphoria

up and down the sealevel
impossible to technofix that, equally

the lattice of times that constitute a problem

mud in the feet of whom
here but there, what counts


symmetric logics for the superficial

the ups and downs of 
tides, glands and salt 

balancing Global Carbon Budget

and what of the embedded microcultures of remoteness,
what of the long term

what counts as here, matters
what counts as now, trappers?

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Excreted drops of concentrated seawater 
onto the leaf surface. 

density levels

The carbon sink is significantly larger than zero

The gritty feeling of tiny salt crystals, they shine like diamonds
the dynamics of volume, disproportionally measured

crude forms of natural engineering 

a new ideological dispensation of equality
which is still not enough

but how a remote trade affect

the sea grass the salt grass, 
the cord grass the marsh grass the spike grass

all the way right here for your eyes only far from 
my bed in the mud not in my backyard here and now

just in time not enough too much less than expected never enough 
always too late out of time

if just judgements are straight,
double-edged swords wielded either for or against any party,

what of the crooked dispositions of 
difference without separability that the marshes provide

A planetary burial of metabolic collectivities
interdependencies of underwaterstresses

unequally osmotic equalities, 


along currents of guilt and victimhood

along streams of justice that do not assume the measurements that count
along consumption after death

within the wealth of biota
within the current

water direction

the storage bin of nonliving resources
sinking, capturing, keeping, reserving, burying

a truce rather than a lasting equilibirum 

a lasting equlibrium rather than a truce 

the balance of brilliance and of darkness

the inflection point between the not yet and the no longer provides


they had a thick memory
of what came before and underneath

a volume of unravelling forms and patterns, interrelationships
an intelligibility of a community

we have a thick list

of all that was named and counted

a richly articulated infrastructure
for guilt-solving and the outsourcing of damage

you can read it obliquely:
    
what sinks later, counts.

The model using an empirically derived weighting
based on interval length and plot area

to capture the void of volumes elsewhere
as a technical gesture of doing nothing

which is, at the same time, the gesture of doing everything
fungible, disposable, at hand to grab or swallow

refuse the mystical sigh 
the separation into units 

combine them relate them rotate them

see them in their entirety and specificity 
local and cosmic motion

and now refuse the mystical sigh of cosmic reparation

now put that plan in motion, into action, very very fast and smoothly
as if biomes could follow their own particles's traces
or the mud would allow the trick of acceleration


the up and down 
of a double-edged cut

the slicing apart
the natural history of the estuary, the mangrove, the saltmarsh

that keeps North up and the Souths underneath, and on the sides
of the regression model.

constructed elements that constitute a biome
of juridical surrogacy

the primordial equality of unequals invokes a cosmic motion

a cut both ways



but what if partial reparation could invoke
a depth of interdepencies knitted together 

of amalgamated burial grounds
clumps spreading vegetatively


woven into a basket to not carry all, at all
nourished by myths and dreams

a balance of grassroots and axes
for these metabolisms to flow otherwise


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txt leftovers______

Infused areas of inflection, generating a seemingly minor shift
in the above-ground net primary production (APP)


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Justitia, in fact, presides over a new ideological dispensation of equality. Not only is she blind-folded; she also holds a scale by which to measure exchange fairly — ”equal and exact.” Guilt andinnocence are juridical surrogates for the equitable allotments of things that appear in the marketplace. Indeed, all scales can ever do is to reduce qualitative differences to quantitative ones. Accordingly, everyone must be equal before Justitia; her blindfold prevents her from drawingany distinctions between her supplicants. But persons are very different indeed, as the primordial equality of unequals had recognized. Justitia’s rule of equality — of equivalence — thus completely reverses the old principle. Inasmuch as all are theoretically ”equal” in her unseeing eyes, although often grossly unequal in fact, she turns the equality of unequals into the inequality of equals. The ancient words are all there, but like the many changes in emphasis that placed theimprint of domination on traditional values and sensibilities, they undergo a seemingly minorshift.

Accordingly, the rule of equivalence, as symbolized by the scales in Justitia’s hand, calls forbalance, not compensation. The blindfold prevents her from making any changes of measure dueto differences among her supplicants. Her specious ”equality” thus yields a very real inequality.To be right is to be ”just” or ”straight,” and both, in turn, negate equality on its own terms. Her ”just” or ”straight” judgment yields a very unbalanced and crooked disposition that will remain concealed to much of humanity for thousands of years — even as the oppressed invoke her name as their guardian and guide.

Salt Tolerance Adaptations
ability to un-respire salt, for survival

https://c8.alamy.com/compes/dd619y/la-justicia-sin-cegamiento-aplastando-la-anarquia-pero-ahorrando-el-monopolio-la-caricatura-de-1888-xilografia-coloreada-a-mano-de-w-a-rogers-cartoon-dd619y.jpg

How to compute water balance of a estuary?
I have an estuary having 5 rivers as its inlet and 3 outlet connected to sea. I wanted to water balance of estuary and how it is changing with drastic change in surrounding landuse/land cover change. Is there any model that computes water balance of estuary?

Carbon trade balance is measured by the ratio of territorial emissions to consumption emissions, which are taken from the Global Carbon Budget .

Other creatures who lurk within the underwater tangle of mangrove roots
carbon sinking
the local-remote as non-connected to other localities
mixong of mangroves and cordgrass and image (of salt model)
different names
volume dynamics in the carbon market

loops from one estuary to another

recombinatory elements

the molecular in the botanical
lattice
masses of salted and fresh water


what is syntax sugar? and syntax salt?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar#Syntactic_salt
https://masterconceptsinchemistry.com/index.php/2017/10/28/salt-solution-conduct-electricity-sugar-solution-doesnt/

figure of justitia, freedom: 
    salt (conductive, dissolvable), metabolic specimens, 

    balancing ecosystems, areas of inflection, thresholds where what balances matter is set, 
         diff levels of elements that consitute the biome (water masses, tides, salt densities, ground, carbon, life-nonlife (=categories of existance), microbial life), trapping-synking, neturalization, of currents 
          but also balancing of social constructs like: debt, guilt, one-ness, territorialization, accountability, what's meassurable, ...
          
carbon trading as blindfolded weighing (blindfoldedness evade complexity, conditions, difference (or: focus on only one aspect?) -- unjust trade in plain sight!
non innocent, not neutral at all.
a cutting double-edged sword on the other hand.
rich microbial cultures


"The Sword of Justice is the active force, a symbol of power, protection, authority, vigilance and might. This double-edged sword in Justice's left hand, recognizes the power of Reason and Justice, which may be wielded either for or against any party."


calculation
comparison
equation
sum
totalling
offsetting
osmotic
symmetric a-symmetric
balancing, equalizing, levelling, stabilizing
quantitive vs qualitative
proportionally disproportianallly
excess just in time not enough too much less than expected never enough always too late out of time
salt tolerance
Syntactic salt -- harder to write "bad" code

Balance happens differently but not the balancing with two arms... 
Some additional metabolic cost associated with salt stress was detected, but under water stress
a seemingly minor shift

When saltmarsh plants die, rather than decomposing and releasing their carbon into the atmosphere, they become buried in the mud. As sea levels rise more sediment layers get buried and more carbon gets locked beneath the mud.


Mangroves and salt marshes are among the most productive ecosystems in the global coastal ocean. Mangroves store more carbon (739 Mg CORG ha-1) than salt marshes (334 Mg CORG ha-1), but the latter sequester proportionally more (24%) net primary production (NPP) than mangroves (12%). Mangroves exhibit greater rates of gross primary production (GPP), above-ground net primary production (NPP) and plant respiration (RC) with higher PGPP/RC ratios, but salt marshes exhibit greater rates of below-ground NPP. Mangroves have greater rates of subsurface DIC production and, unlike salt marshes, exhibit significant microbial decomposition to a soil depth of 1 m. Salt marshes release more soil CH4 and export more dissolved CH4 , but mangroves release more CO2 from tidal waters and export greater amounts of POC, DOC and DIC to adjacent waters. Both ecosystems contribute only a small proportion of GPP, RE (ecosystem respiration) and NEP (net ecosystem production) to the global coastal ocean due to their small global area, but contribute 72% of air-sea CO2 exchange from the world’s wetlands and estuaries and contribute 34% of DIC export and 17% of DOC + POC export to the world’s coastal ocean. Thus, both wetland ecosystems contribute disproportionately to carbon flow of the global coastal ocean.

the ability to deal with the salt, condition makes possible to live in difficult conditions, and filter salt of ecosystem around it. Carbon trapping happens because they not only grow, is that their roots get burried in the mud so they do not release carbon back out. It stays in the mud. But if disturbed, it gets released. Rotting goes fast because microbial climate. Life-non-life ..
there is more underground than on top

vs

debt, territory, depth, accountability, green deal, ...
harvesting chord grass. Fracking?!
living and non-living resources

bambara seagrass basket

different understanding of balancing
what balances matter
it is litterally 'balancing'
threshold 
floats

violent balance
hippies!

cybernetic balance and justitia
carbon trading and the cybernetic legacy
unbalanced balance

chloride sodium - symmetric, balanced mollecular order

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/04/tropical-forests-losing-their-ability-to-absorb-carbon-study-finds

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S164235931930148X-gr2.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Marsh_erosion.png/500px-Marsh_erosion.png



worksession 7 april:

Materials for text layer:

deep space/place + crushing realness / separations (McKittrick)
more than being in excess, bodies in excess of their capture but subjected to such a sedimented oppression that the capacity is constrained (xxx)
traps (corsin) / trapping, poaching --- capture
figure-background (Ballesteros)
Ecology of Freedom (Bookchin)
(not) zones of sacrifice & LULUs
Elizabeth Johnson ()
-- imperialismmmmm, placemaking project: using culture to make places (destination?). Countereffect:this is an area to be protected, it ha cultural/economical value (so others have less value). At the expense of? Or without acknowledgement. Separating from stories of colonial/imperial operations. 
deep implicancies (Da Silva & )
capture
volume without volumetrics (Jessica Lehman)

using measurements in the mid-term, but ...

how to tell the richer story
esthetics and reinforcing 

can we tie into the rebellion 
make explicit refusal of trade?

refusal of trading carbon

micro-meso-macro

story of miscalculation -- of the capacities of marshes to capture/process carbon
sovereign control and global space -- not just about resisting sovereign control but not succumbing to capitalist control over global space ()

anticapitalist local protest

anti-measurement churning. https://www.dukeupress.edu/blue-legalities
anti-capture movement
[is this about looking for a qualitative quantification?]
buried carbon, can be thought of as volume but it is more complex than that.
moving lattices
this is what we maybe want to make space for a global space not in sovereign control, recognizing voluminocity
carbon that can (not) be owned, commodified, 
[but in necropolitical control, yes?]
sacrafice zone.. is necropolitical 
addiditive.. 
it is additive, upgrading the sovereign [Povinelli responding to foucauldians]
sovreign reigns the beast/marsh from top to bottom, and has the provoke the power ... love, bodies
the regime changes to biopolitical, and the obligation to keep alive. Distribution, management, ... (this is additive?)
revisions of biopolitical through the necropolitical.
infrastructural power 
social magics/matrix of technology... (Bookchin)
so: what genealogy of power
the sovereignity of carbon trade:
    antropocene/capitalocene, yes, sovereign need of survival of species


 critical ocean studies.
 bluehumanities
 bluecarbon 
 
 "expressive demands"
 
organic can not be changed. conservative
relationship to place is unmoveable: 'rootless' 'roots'

mechanical vs organic

organic = abstract! and neo-liberal? No.
organic solidarity 

buried means: not available
measuring makes it emerge, surface
underground as resistant
resisting to emerge as a community

trade unsinks / surfaces traps
surfacing, tokenizing decolonial work (what?!)
subsurface


https://philebersole.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/the-ecology-of-freedom-chapter-two/

Justitia, in fact, presides over a new ideological dispensation of equality. Not only is she blind-folded; she also holds a scale by which to measure exchange fairly — ”equal and exact.” Guilt andinnocence are juridical surrogates for the equitable allotments of things that appear in the mar-ketplace. Indeed, all scales can ever do is to reduce qualitative differences to quantitative ones.Accordingly, everyone must be equal before Justitia; her blindfold prevents her from drawingany distinctions between her supplicants. But persons are very different indeed, as the primor-dial equality of unequals had recognized. Justitia’s rule of equality — of equivalence — thus com-pletely reverses the old principle. Inasmuch as all are theoretically ”equal” in her unseeing eyes,although often grossly unequal in fact, she turns the equality of unequals into the inequality ofequals. The ancient words are all there, but like the many changes in emphasis that placed theimprint of domination on traditional values and sensibilities, they undergo a seemingly minorshift.

Accordingly, the rule of equivalence, as symbolized by the scales in Justitia’s hand, calls forbalance, not compensation. The blindfold prevents her from making any changes of measure dueto differences among her supplicants. Her specious ”equality” thus yields a very real inequality.To be right is to be ”just” or ”straight,” and both, in turn, negate equality on its own terms. Her”just” or ”straight” judgment yields a very unbalanced and crooked disposition that will remainconcealed to much of humanity for thousands of years — even as the oppressed invoke her nameas their guardian and guide


Balance happens differently but not the balancing with two arms... 
Some additional metabolic cost associated with salt stress was detected, but under water stress

When saltmarsh plants die, rather than decomposing and releasing their carbon into the atmosphere, they become buried in the mud. As sea levels rise more sediment layers get buried and more carbon gets locked beneath the mud.


Mangroves and salt marshes are among the most productive ecosystems in the global coastal ocean. Mangroves store more carbon (739 Mg CORG ha-1) than salt marshes (334 Mg CORG ha-1), but the latter sequester proportionally more (24%) net primary production (NPP) than mangroves (12%). Mangroves exhibit greater rates of gross primary production (GPP), above-ground net primary production (NPP) and plant respiration (RC) with higher PGPP/RC ratios, but salt marshes exhibit greater rates of below-ground NPP. Mangroves have greater rates of subsurface DIC production and, unlike salt marshes, exhibit significant microbial decomposition to a soil depth of 1 m. Salt marshes release more soil CH4 and export more dissolved CH4 , but mangroves release more CO2 from tidal waters and export greater amounts of POC, DOC and DIC to adjacent waters. Both ecosystems contribute only a small proportion of GPP, RE (ecosystem respiration) and NEP (net ecosystem production) to the global coastal ocean due to their small global area, but contribute 72% of air-sea CO2 exchange from the world’s wetlands and estuaries and contribute 34% of DIC export and 17% of DOC + POC export to the world’s coastal ocean. Thus, both wetland ecosystems contribute disproportionately to carbon flow of the global coastal ocean.


Rewrite Thea

Sinking Alloyances + Planetary Burial

Sinking Alloyances + Planetary Burial is the ninth entry to the ROCK REPO - an ongoing enquiry into computational,mineral time and matter.

Artist collective The Underground Division (Helen Pritchard, Jara Rocha, Femke Snelting) have created a new audiovisual installation (3D renderings, models, sound and text) presented at the newly transformed Eco Gallery at Wat Tyler Country Park.

Planetary estuary environments are recognised for their capacities to capture and store carbon, known as carbon sequestering. Quantified, measured and commodified as sinks for so-called 'bluecarbon', saltmarshes are rendered back into the flows of carbon trade. 

This new artwork meditates on what it does to compute the volumes of carbon that are ‘buried’; the microbiomes and topologies, held together by root lattices of cordgrass in estuaries and mangroves across the world. Showing the liveliness and abundance of estauries that is in excess of capture.  


Thea's proposal

ROCK REPO #9
Sinking Alloyances + Planetary Burial is the ninth entry to The Underground Division's ROCK REPO - an ongoing enquiry into time and matter.

Artist collective The Underground Division (Helen Pritchard, Jara Rocha, Femke Snelting) have created a new immersive installation (3D rendering, models, sound and loop) presented at the newly transformed Eco Gallery at Wat Tyler Country Park.

Estuary environments across the globe are recognised for their ability to capture and store carbon, known as carbon sequestering - and referred to as ‘bluecarbon’, with attempts made to quantify and measure the carbon stored.

The Underground Division’s new artwork meditates on what it means to compute the volumes of carbon that are ‘buried’; the microbiomes and topologies that are held together by root lattices of cordgrass in the estuary and mangroves across the world.



Communication:
Amalgam #9: Sinking Alloyances + Planetary Burial
The Underground Division (Helen Pritchard, Jara Rocha, Femke Snelting)
[3D rendering, models, sound; loop]

This amalgam proposes a rendering operation on dis-placed currents: The burial of bluecarbon in the soils held together by the root lattices of cordgrass and mangroves, the quantification of carbon sequestration into colonialist Co2 trading systems, the flowing of fresh into salted water masses, the polygonal representations of the estaury microbiome, the topologies of protection, the imperial modes of conservation, the raising sea temperatures and the carrying of a woven basket. Matter and language moving up and down scales, arranging what can be said, seen, sensed, sinked and densified. In defiance to static landscape categorizations and protective protocols, The Underground Division proposes a new addition to its ROCK REPO. Sinking Alloyances + Planetary Burial presents specific arrangements of volumetric computation in the estaury.  Attending remotely to the tidal spacetimes of estuary ecosystems across the planet.


initial proposal JR

Amalgam #9:  Remote sequestration
 
 
If we understand artistic research praxis as one of situated remoteness due to the dis- and re-placement of forces, attentions and responsibilities, this ninth amalgam can be described as a rendering operation on currents. The flow of mineral sequestration intro CO2 colonialism trading systems, of fresh into salted water masses, of polygonal representations into the imagination of the molecular potentia of whole biomes, of topologies of protection into superficial conservation: many material-semiotic currents flowing up and down scales, arranging what can be said, seen, sensed, sinked, densified. The Underground Division proposes this new addition to its ROCK REPO, with the aim to remotely attend to specific arrangements of volumetric computation at the tidal spacetimes of the ecosystem an estuary is (in ontological defiance to static landscape categorizations and protective protocols): one that is not not connected to many others of its sort.
 
 
Remotely sequestred / on-spot remoteness / currents of sequestration / tidal spacetimes / xxx? / remote tidal sequestration?


Remotely sequestred / on-spot remoteness / currents of sequestration / tidal spacetimes / xxx? / remote tidal sequestration?


Meeting with Thea - 26/02

Installation 
Updates 

What it means to speak estaury -- to speak about estauries in general 
Trying to get head around the marsh as service... 
The carbon sinks and the role in the global carbon trade....
Different...scales that these calculations are happening.. extreme large values of carbon in specific location.. 
but the it counts on the microscopic operations in the marsh ... salinary glands in cordgrass, biomes that appear in differenr marshes.. salt as a molecule... formula for carbon tradecarbon sequestering... 
playing with the thames estaury and the mangrove ... 
>>> explaining about the virtuality .... 
currents and circulation.. this attention to the metric of volumes... is where the previous conversations... scanned specimans or fragments of salt of cordgrass.... 
- is this tidal times?.... (what times, multiple scales/times: of sedimentation, of capital, of heating)
- how an estaury is formed that contributes the ecosystem.... and other times and scales as femke said ... speed of capital... different lines of time... 
- how conversation is usually 'place-based care'. 90 other marshes and estuaries -- blue carbon sinks. Connect the estuary to other estuaries. It is not just about protecting this estuary, but also others.
- The colonial project of trying to prove that the mangrove is different than saltmarshes. Hierarchies led to shortcut in 18th century colonialism.
- [Co2 colonialism]
- 

Brainstorming 26/2, Helen, Femke, Jara

protection
conversation
entrapment
capture


Marsh as a carbon sink service:

buffer stormy seas
slow shoreline erosion
offer shelter for migratory water birds
serve as nesting site
absorb excess nutrients
help protect communities
slow the progress of storms
absorb surging water
entrap carbon
serve as natural filters for runoff

extraction and redensification

queering damage

how amazing saltmarshes are

a solidarity between volumes prevents trade off
refusal of trade but not the erasure of volume
volumetrics against trade
units, chunks, blocks ...

virtual trading, voluntary trading, ...
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Deb-Niemeier/publication/255582806/figure/fig1/AS:668938518163457@1536498779142/Market-trading-2006-Total-carbon-market-includes-smaller-market-trades-not-shown.png



Brainstorming 25/2, Helen, Femke, Jara

model: salt + spartina + protein + ...
background: recognition
text: economy, trade and valuing otherwise.
sound: the album

blurring of all estuaries
a recognizable element?



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ground and air
holding together with rocks
breathing
c02 colonialism - linking soil to air and the atmosphere
a sensitive zone
carbon dioxide is linked differently

lattice and a moveable holding together
holding / entrapping the carbon
an interdependent structure
different politics: value of capture vs holding as a geo-

floating, currents. water as a connective 'tissue'. Trade and outsourced responsibilities.
stakeholders vs holding together

marshes, margroves?, estuaries, deltas

models:
https://sketchfab.com/search?q=sprtina
https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/blue-salt-crystal-3d-1219892
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/flagler-restoration-north-peninsula-1dacc3e8b8c54386b1cf6c705b76416c
Crystal structure from the mobile metagenome of Cole Harbour Salt Marsh: Integron Cassette Protein HFX_CASS3 http://www.rcsb.org/3d-view/3FYN?preset=ligandInteraction&sele=ACT + Many more proteins from the Salt Marsh, some Mangrove, none Estuary. Download formats: pdb?! The Uncultured Bacteria as xml https://files.rcsb.org/view/3fyn.cif 
Same protein (?), download as .stl + .vmrl https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/pdb/3FUY 
forbidden forms https://phys.org/news/2013-12-salty-ordinary-table-salt-forbidden.html
"This is not supposed to happen, as these compounds require a completely different form of chemical bonding with higher energy, and nature always favours the lowest state of energy."
3D texture, wet salt marsh https://cgdownloads.com/download-material-wet-marsh-grass-free/
Pioneer plant in the salt marsh 
https://sketchfab.com/search?q=Bolboschoenus+maritimus
Downloadable hallite = salt models https://sketchfab.com/search?features=downloadable&q=halite&sort_by=-relevance&type=models

clay? https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/11/10/1972/htm
"Owing to their low aspect ratio (particle thickness to length ratio) coupled with large surface areas [12,13,14,15], clay minerals organization can be conveniently modelled with flat ellipsoids, disks, or elliptic disk-shaped particles"

Scans:
"Diagnosing Sick Salt Marshes" https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/new-york/stories-in-new-york/long-island-salt-marsh-ct-scans/

Mangrove seedling
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/seedling-of-mangrove-rhizophora-apiculata-3b57c63e393a4b5ca392a28003051cd5



texts:
https://www.theseashore.org.uk/theseashore/Saltmarsh%20section/succession%20general/The%20saltmarsh%20environment.html

Christina Sharpe’s meditation on the Black captive bodies carried in the hold of the Zong and spilled/poured/thrown over its sides considers the matter of their flesh and how it changed the ocean. The body and the blood turned flesh and then turned salt remains. In the midst of her wake work, Sharpe considered the “residence time” of the nutrients, salt, and substance of the flesh of those emptied into the ocean.60 She asked her colleague Anne Gardulski about the chemical and atomic life of their matter, their salt. Gardulski assured Sharpe that the atoms, the blood and the salt of the people

King, Tiffany Lethabo. The Black Shoals (p. 202). Duke University Press. 

The standard morphodynamic modelling suite is coupled with an improved vegetation module to overcome the sensitivity of numerical models to plant representations, as noted by Tempest et al. (2015). It explicitly accounts for drag, turbulence and diffusion over the whole water column. Novelties include a parameterization for plant flexibility and exertion of hydrodynamic feedback on vegetation. 

co2 auctions https://www.emissions-euets.com/auctionsco2allowances

on transitional zones?
on holding-together?
on currents, flows and floating? _ water, air, trade,
https://www.routledge.com/A-Blue-Carbon-Primer-The-State-of-Coastal-Wetland-Carbon-Science-Practice/Windham-Myers-Crooks-Troxler/p/book/9780367893521
on CO2 sequestration? https://350sonoma.org/regenerative-agriculture
https://geoengineering.global/blue-carbon/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272771413005143?via%3Dihub
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259512678_The_value_of_carbon_sequestration_and_storage_in_coastal_habitats/link/59f0756a0f7e9beabfc67a83/download
                                                   

APGumbs:
Working with the limits
of the open and closed (would-be) opposi-
tional or progressive signs of coal and
diamond, Lorde offers a challenge to a
binary understanding of “who pays what for
speaking.”

> who pays for what breathing?

Meanwhile, in the second decade of the
twenty-first century, physicists are seeking to
convert diamonds into quantum computer
processors, trading in the heat of silicon for
the speed of the hardest surface on the
planet. The early quantum computers,
which are not limited by binary code’s
choice between zero and one, but instead
have the possibility of choosing both zero
and one, are still experimental, but the experi-
ential technology of operating in a deep earth
multi-edged
* 
                               
                                        
Total CO2 ReleasedðLÞ 1⁄4 StockðQ Þ*Area lostðALtÞ þRateðRÞ*Area lostðALtÞ*Number of years of sequestration ðt  1Þ 
http://postgrowth.art/interspecies-wealth-transfer-En.html

  http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/carbon-trading-dogma-theoretical-assumptions-and-practical-implications-global-carbon                                                 
  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46492881_Civilizing_Markets_Carbon_Trading_between_In_Vitro_and_In_Vivo_Experiments                              
   https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229452391_The_Matter_of_Carbon_Understanding_the_Materiality_of_tCO2e_in_Carbon_Offsets      

commodification of carbon dumps (2005!!)
https://www.dartmouth.edu/~mkdorsey/Marketing%20and%20Making%20Carbon%20Dumps.pdf               
                
backgrounds:
https://ets.wessexarch.co.uk/resources/scientificdata/nggallery/scientific-data/outer-thames-estuary-rec-report-images
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joost-Van-Haren/publication/312644315/figure/fig1/AS:671920706048015@1537209788976/Conceptual-drawing-of-carbon-flow-in-Landscape-Evolution-Observatory-hillslopes-Arizona.png
Drone https://vimeo.com/262463665
Vibro corer https://ets.wessexarch.co.uk/recs/how-we-study-the-seafloor/geological-methods/
seasalt under microscope https://www.flickr.com/photos/will-wade/6633969077
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGQsBmzFM_g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oQ_l-1IdOs

minute 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oQ_l-1IdOs

vibrocoring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mRS9dKhSpY

vibrocore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RimufrrGdvk

peat emissions/cuts https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53684047
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXHhzlfCKEQ&t=94s

*


accounting for soil respiration variability 
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joost-Van-Haren/publication/312644315/figure/fig1/AS:671920706048015@1537209788976/Conceptual-drawing-of-carbon-flow-in-Landscape-Evolution-Observatory-hillslopes-Arizona.png

sounds?:
action figures?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmOZrAazd5c (not this, but something from https://www.emissions-euets.com/)
seagrass = acoustic refuge for fish https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235735129_Seagrass_meadows_provide_an_acoustic_refuge_for_estuarine_fish

Other texts
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1068/a140048p?casa_token=Zq7BnCoRQBEAAAAA:SKewBczmWfNKMCCVnJUzVftXYo7vcJkYEMGKfesbJRwh7smqERodho6gcBQyQM22P-9N6w02syE
Carbon Trading Geopolitics https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03085147.2018.1445569
The friction of the mundane: on the problematic marketization of the carbon stored by trees in the tropics   https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2018.1461675?src=recsys

Projection 
https://monopricesupport.kayako.com/article/84-how-do-i-calculate-projector-screen-dimensions#:~:text=Simply%20put%2C%20a%2016%3A9,the%20diagonal%20by%20approximately%200.495.
a 16:9 projection screen is 1.78 times as wide as it is high.
20ft container is 590 cm x 239cm 
Projector Screen Height: To calculate the projector screen height, multiply the diagonal by approximately 0.495. (In other words the height of the screen is just a bit less than 50% of the diagonal.

Projector Screen Width: The width of the projector screen is approximately 87% of the projector screen's diagonal, so multiply the diagonal measurement by approximately 0.87.

so 

full height of 239 would be 425 long 
425 x 239
so 1.5m empty either side 



or a 1:1 projection which would be at the short end 
2.35 x 2.35 (leaving 10cm height - pretty much invisible) 

2 4:3 would be 635 long 
H 239 x 310.7
So 2 x 4:3 = 635 -- with a projector such as 174.3cm
so four projectors would cover the space 

Throw ratio = throw distance/image width 

So is impossible to do 360 with three projectors 
but 

question
Can Pi do 4K projection  - think new pi can need to check

exchange value vs use value
absence of use


when you measure include the measurer

Brainstorming 24/2, Helen, Femke, Jara

- electricity?
- surface to project on? long side? short side? one, two? oblique?
- ref: https://housebiennial.art/exhibition/emma-critchley-aria/

Threads of amalgamation for Amalgam #9:

- remoteness: Not With Our Feet in the Mud
- salinity
- imperial pulses to collecting, the taxonomic impulse. Plant collection, botanic specimens. Comparison between US and estuary. Showing how grasses grow different, and then people 'in the mud' should be different too. > computation
- hybrid, amphoebius, euryhaline ... observatories because of specific biodiversity / meeting sea and sky. Spead of sedimentation; changing landscapes
- sedimentation, subterrenean ... peat? the mud that holds the carbon > lidar
- liminal places, mapping changing climate (increased salinity? = increased density of solved salt)
- how computational measurements shift; salt-marsh as service

today even the carbon sink is describes as a "saltmarsh as service" (can't help the alignment to software as service) "Saltmarsh plants root form networks that hold the saltmarsh sediment together therefore reducing coastal erosion 
they also hold carbon - Salt marshes are one of the most powerful carbon (C) sinks on the planet. They bury at a rate ~55 times faster than tropical rainforests (regarded as one of the most significant terrestrial C sinks), and their global carbon burial (up to 87.2 ± 9.6 Tg C yr-1 based on preliminary assessments) appears to exceed that of tropical rainforests (53 ± 9.6 Tg C yr-1)."
(what salt has to do with this?)

cordgrass = slijkgras = saltgrass = spartina
soil binders
considered invasive species. a coloniser. an invader.
rhizomatic
has a salt gland
grows in salt marshes everywhere (from china to canada to uk ...)
intense bioturbation

"Big cordgrass (S. cynosuroides) is used in the construction of bull's eye targets for sports archery. A properly constructed Spartina target can stop an arrow safely without damage to the arrowhead as it lodges in the target."

computer vision to map tidal marshes

- Kyoto protocol obstacle of carbon sinks? https://www.cbd.int/doc/articles/2005/a-00438.pdf

accessible to observation / computer vision (ref. the difficulty of forests). It's topology lends to observation
observing co2 sinking

but both rich history and a complex amalgamation of lifeforms make up the essence of the salt marsh.

saltmarshes are everywhere. its biodiversity is not specific

co2 colonialism and what lidar does for it. radar interferometry

living + non-living undergrounds doing turbation. terraforming

carbon sinking vs bioturbation

making a place (the estuary), making it special. s reconfiguring of conversations

Dream of not having the estuary... 

shipping container thats everywhere.. 

sea temprature.... 

remote situatedness-- revisiting situated.. planetary... 
theories of the planetary

carbon sink, offsetting, carbon emissions... offsetting of responsibilities.... 
carbon sequestration

the lack of charisma of saltgrass

all saltmarshes are sinks

"It’s the relationship between conductivity and salinity that allows for its remote sensing of salinity from space. As the conductivity of ocean surface waters change (with salinity) there are minute detectable changes in the “brightness” of the surface in microwave emissions."

https://microwavescience.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mws/ObservationsHome_Promo_490x490.jpg

Aquarius = NASA mission to sensing The 'Global Conveyor Belt'
"First full year of validated ocean surface salinity" https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004000/a004046/4046-portal.mov

remote sensing of estuarine habitats https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/8/9/718/htm

colonial 2.0: "In a solution to this challenge, Los Alamos researchers and collaborators have developed an open-source software package, called SimCCS2.0, to help industry and government make the complex, expensive infrastructure decisions needed to capture, transport and store CO2."

capture, trapping, sequestration

Silicon Valley 
https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-explosivity-of-kelp

Carbon Trade Wars: US / UK / Europe
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2021/02/17/dr-congo-campaigners-take-minister-court-illegal-logging-rights-claims/
https://esthinktank.com/2020/12/02/risking-a-new-trade-war-to-save-the-climate/
https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/400ppm-wither-carbon-accounting
Emission trading and carbon border taxes in the European Green deal

making conversation at what price; making-specific and the bigger story.
cultural heritages of the estuaries.

vague notion of the place: different currents at work
interdependencies on/with flows and represent it as a place of belonging
the peasants revolt -- the working class of the nation ...

carbon <-> salt and what connects the two elements

planetary currents
floating, holding, trading, circulating



Projection ideas

https://housebiennial.art/exhibition/emma-critchley-aria/

Salinity

https://osm4wiki.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/wiki/wiki-osm.pl?project=en&article=Thames_Estuary

Euryhaline organisms are able to adapt to a wide range of salinities. An example of a euryhaline fish is the molly (Poecilia sphenops) which can live in fresh water, brackish water, or salt water. 

http://salinometry.com/ctd-salinity-calculator/

17/2 Meeting with Thea, Helen, Femke

themes: climate rebellion, 
Same dates still 22 may - June
Same content

shift  to landscape, online and covid space

Some art works might stay longer so people can access them

emphasis: estuary trail

[goes through different commissions/projects in progress; we are no. 21]
Wat tyler Park 
Shaun - wishing well - explotlanders and local people in the lead up to festival 
Geo relief prints - that show where the wells would be located
Harun - Unbox - inspired by the pill box - sound installation MP3 that people can listen to on headphpnes - who may have been situated in them 
Angela - explosive trail - writing a script on the geopolitical histories 
Sonia and Jo - Strawberry plants  - invitations, questions new edibles growing space  - what the invitations look like on the plant markers
Discussion with the Team in park about the different film works
Andy and Sam - microplastics - looking at other ways to present the research, venue for the washing machines to be sited in 
Rachel - large panels on the dutch barn space
ackroyd and harvey - grass panel portraits - following some of the routes across the park during the rebellion 
Lata - reimagining of the whitevan/man
Lora Calligraphy - info panels - dyes etc from the plant
The Dutch Barn

Outdoor exhibition, local artist and calligraphy
Creating a data tree, on an oak stump
Read Rachel Lichtenstein: Estuary
"a former eco toilet block" which is not usuable anymore. Our work goes there! It is a shipping container underneath. It has an entrance and exit. And a green roof.
next to a playground.

Think about a local tech-producer.

what skills they need to have.

The ROCK repo as a trans*feminist study training center. Bunker. 

[screenshot: the lightblue triangle]

two doors (one for exit / one for entry)
projections either end
there are small windows on either side

offer: to put us up in a hotel, it is work so we might be able to travel?

The education department is super supportive, wants to develop an education pack.

Builder will start 1 March, so we need to communicate.
- Meeting 26/2 12:00/13:00 with Thea for instructions:
- Where will the projectors be
- A new text describing the work.
- Which two doors
- Thea: two or three projectors
- jump-off points for educational pack
- think about an etherbox/piratebox to download stuff
- what to put on the floor and walls 
https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?026


Two or three projectors? 

17/12/20


Thinking about situations , 
not just conventional ideas of what it means to be local 
and the other part the salt.. and the meeting of massive masses of differenciated waters

> coming from the writing of  8th Amaglam in Timely Extractions, too...

Conversation in Cal Arts Now|Swerve (released December 2020?)

End of February good handle .. end of feb working version.. press launch.. some text.. to describe the work...


Mid june: a conversation/focus on-line; a discussion or reading?
Thea also working on some kind of interaction in the space (where our installation would be) - resources, text, handwriting events, in the space..
Maybe also some kind of performance instruction 
Readings in the space with the work 

Send the description.. and then invoice in the new year 

Weds 11th Feb 14:00 meeting with THea
- update description on website
- send update (to prepare 2nd invoice) and to know for the press release... 
- know about possibilities for spaces etc.

---
16/12/2020 speed writing:


two masses disobeying through one another.
meaning: i think the encounter of massive masses implies an erotic?
one has particular implications for life
take it this way: all life has evolved to depend on salt's chemical properties to survive, through a multiplicity of forms and processes

what does this all life dependency on the cut of salt look like without the figure/ground?
are you still here?
and the other as well
salt salty geo
salty geobiomytho 

the mass of bios
encounters the mass of myths:
saltings of imaginaries

she said we want a Labour-in-reciprocity
they say let's please not get this bland
she said is this cosmological ?
we said sure why not,
its mutual.

the median lethal dose of table salt is roughly 3,000 mg per kg of human body weight, they said.

see? it's mutual.

so: extraction started by letting dry
and then
grab
or grab-for
a grabbing back
of matters and co-dependent life-forms
filtering through the orifices of the queer moulsucs 
a molusc-salt-grass tounging of classificatory violences and gender panics

now, let's consider kingdom dysphoria:
it's not the case, that we can separate salt from moluscs
nor moluscs from background
so

try a scale leap:
to Velma's kitchen 
to Toni Cade Bambara's page
to the basket on her arms
to the edition room of a promotion video for landscape incursions
to softening of thames barriers
to an iced road in front of someone, through the world of someone else
to the salty crystal guide
maybe this isn't the scale jump you needed?
try again, then:

but I have a question: if we jump in timescales, will we be able to write the multispecies convergence of differenciated modes of existence that as a positive, negative or neutral externality ended up providing with the mineral stuff these mundane diamonds are made of?
some made of these diamond stuffs 
for all the fresh water pouring into it 
survival salt levels
breakers, gulls, muffled voices, a lonely foghorn, that sort of thing

oh my god, it's so amazingly beautiful, its geometry
calcifications - cosmological calcifications
a thousand exploded views or none


she said we need to think how to not change
because of whats coming
lattice holds
picture a delta -- shit, always so damaging alphabetic, in the tongue
it's too much to dissolve in one go
reverse flows
but picture an estuary
the massive encounter of masses
with specific mellecular equilibriums
what should I use for an optical refractometer?
bladderwort and calmus singing .. 
historical presents of imperial classifications 
salty tastes for colonial impulses of collecting and notating
meaning: naming: seizing
the imperial feeling of the mud in the toes 
lodged in the mouths of cordbraid and callus

ionic compounds, or not
meaning: what degree of freshness now that the meeting took place
calficiations
it dissociates in water, so
extraction implied a utilitarian re-association? can that be the case?
global carbon burial
yet another form of division of, at and despite the underground
despite the reachings through the muds

The sodium and chlorine atoms 
are present in equal amounts (1:1 ratio), 
arranged to form a cubic crystal lattice
held together
holding together through cordgrass
 a lattice of cordgrass
extracted topos of data points
cordgrass strength lurk underneath 
a lidar of solutions
salty dissolves solutions of dissolving 
salt metering

under static conditions, if the fresh water has a specific gravity of 1 and the sea water has a specific gravity of 1.025, the interface between the heavier sea water and the overlying fresh water in the area is pushed 40 feet below sea level for every foot that the water table stands above sea level.

this is precisely why we learned to not trust the figure-background cut
or at least not as an axiomatic cut.

now, check this out:  you can measure salt content following the direct method with the help of the optical refractometer, or determine salt content following the indirect method by means of a conductivity meter. The salt meter is suitable for measuring salt contents in aqueous solutions or viscous media.

Too much salt intake in adults can also occur from the drinking of sea water 
in survival situations.

two masses disobeying through one another,

and also just swet.
---


08/10/2020 Estuary 'territories', underground and damages
--extractvism of material temporalities and how it frames labour practices now - and that relation to taxonomies, categories, 

*The Underground Division

The Underground Division is a disobedient action-research collaboration on techniques, technologies and infrastructures of subsurface rendering and their imaginations, fantasies and promises.


As a follow-up on Possible Bodies'* research on co-constitution of so-called bodies and 3D paradigms, the-body-of-the-earth is now attended as the framework for a study on similar sensibilities but different spacetimes. Which are the presences, latencies, absences and potentials that need to be accounted for, in relation to that deep and thick complexity? The Underground Division bugs contemporary regimes of volumetrics that are applied to extractivist, computationalist and geologic damages.

https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/

*ROCK REPO

A collection of computational ROCKS...
to get closer to the unstable stories of particular ROCKS as told through scientific, poetic, public and technological discourse. Recognising that ROCKS have their own lively forces and relationalities, the Division studies ROCKS' 3D imaginings, the softwares and hardwares that ROCKS intervene on and builds new glossaries on the go. These studies operate as a chipping away at what limits the collective resistance and reparative capacities of and with ROCKS. However, a great deal of stony patience is required to resist and repair the damages from the very practices which bring ore and its energies to the surface of the earth.

As an ongoing inquiry into what ROCK is, the REPO asks what ROCKS could be and in which ways ROCK is seen or considered as an entity separate from its environment. It works with the 'deep implicancies' of moving between figure and ground, asking what happens as a result of this cut, and what other formations could appear. Sharpened by queer and anticolonial sensibilities, the Division investigates the way undergrounds are quarried, measured, quantified, historicized, visualized, circulated, predicted, classified, remembered and modelled. The REPO as an instrument itself crystallizes some stories of spatial and temporal geologic processes and throws rocks through the glaciated windows of turbocapitalism.

The ROCK REPO is a device built by a team of trans*feminist post-normal scientists for thinking with ROCK. Managing rock slope instabilities by LiDAR scanning, optimising strata modelling for fracking, rendering cavities in 3D for gaming, and algorithmically smoothed rock shaders are all deposited in the REPO. The REPO inquires into these banal, exquisite, violent, static, carbonivourous figurations to fracture the normative 3D processes of geocomputation and their crushing exploitations and extractions.

The first seven amalgamates were made for Body Building (TETEM: Enschede, 2020). The 8th, Violent Amalgamations, is developed for the on-line exhibition ¿Cómo continuar? (Centro Cultural de España in Lima, Peru; forthcoming, 2020).

http://ddivision.xyz/

*



"Violent Amalgamations" consists of three volumetric
renderings of so-called rare earth minerals, precious metals and ore deposits from gold extraction that are brought together with textual fragments drawn from mining stories found in industry press releases, community demonstration claims, company reports, activist accounts, geochemistry surveys and historical documents. On many levels, this on-line visual render piece informs, illustrates, challenges and is challenged by the figurations of timely extraction"

3 figurations of/for timely extraction:
amalgam-consortium-borehole


*Alloyances

*holding matter together & holding together with matters

"a way to collectively think through modes of what eco feminist Ariel Salleh calls “holding together” (Salleh, 2017). We discuss holding rocks together but also of holding together with rocks in contingent, computational worlds via the multiforming dimension of time. " Pritchard, Helen; Rocha, Jara and Snelting, Femke. Timely Extractions, 2020

salt/saltings.observations
salt corrodes alloys
holdings together in the saltmarshes
ecologies and interdependencies of holding together
botanical and mineral histories of the saltmarshes as botanists and geologists attemtpted to trace the differeneces between the saltmarshes and the swamps and mangroves 18th century botanical violence , categorisations

"The long eighteenth century saw widespread exploration and a tremendous increase in the traffic in botanical specimens. The goal of many imperial expeditions was to explore the natural resources of colonies and distant lands in search of potentially profitable plants and products."
--->at the centre of the imperial impulses around collecting and observing botanical specimens was the setting up of the categories of whiteness and a whiteness influenced by a different set of mineral, rock, salt, botanical specimens - between europe and the american tropics
---> theory of succession observered in the long 18th c. the empire of botany./imperial project of botany -- 

"The first plant is typically Cordgrass. These plants are called pioneer plants. It is tolerant to seawater and its long roots help hold the mud and sediment together.
Due to The Sword of Justice is the active force, a symbol of power, protection, authority, vigilance and might. This double-edged sword in Justice's left hand, recognizes the power of Reason and Justice, which may be wielded either for or against any party.the sediment and material accumulating, it gets covered by the tide less. This and rain will leach (wash out) some of the salt. As the salt is now lower in concentration, it means more plants can start to grow in the more fertile soil. These new plant species include plants like sea asters. These are known as the second generation. Over time, bigger and hardier plants will grow, until in the end, marsh uplands form, that has trees as well as plants. The development of the plant is known as vegetation succession."

today even the carbon sink is describes as a "saltmarsh as service" (can't help the alignment to software as service) "Saltmarsh plants root form networks that hold the saltmarsh sediment together therefore reducing coastal erosion 
they also hold carbon - Salt marshes are one of the most powerful carbon (C) sinks on the planet. They bury at a rate ~55 times faster than tropical rainforests (regarded as one of the most significant terrestrial C sinks), and their global carbon burial (up to 87.2 ± 9.6 Tg C yr-1 based on preliminary assessments) appears to exceed that of tropical rainforests (53 ± 9.6 Tg C yr-1)."

“Feminist ethics move away from abstracted formulas such as ‘rights’ into an extrapolation of caring experience.44 Holding is based neither on separation and control of Others, nor on some ephemeral cosmic fusion, but on practical deferral. It exemplifies a strong, decentred subject. The origins of this non-identity are overdetermined.”

Excerpt From: Ariel Salleh. “Ecofeminism As Politics.” iBooks. 

interdepndncies in the salt marsh

*histories of protest ways of organising

"I think there is a message or at least an alert, urging me to go back to one of the most persistent lessons that The Salt Eaters offers me in this life. The message, lesson, reminder is this: my spiritual and physical well-being and the well-being of the community, planet and cosmos are ONE THING

The Salt Eaters teaches us this through the story of Velma Henry (and her family, her community, the physical environment, the movement, the planet). Velma is someone that many of us can recognize. She is a champion for the people. She is a revolutionary artist who can’t sleep. Who doesn’t sleep. Who literally does not rest, because she believes to create any space of comfort for herself is to distract from the urgency of her work as an artist for the movement. So she works. Always. She is in it. Always. And she doesn’t rest until she involuntary falls down, and in the opening moment of the novel Velma Henry has fallen so hard that she is barely alive after a suicide attempt that requires the work of a healing community and a circle of ancestors and deities to gather in her name. This is the line we repeat again and again out of Toni Cade Bambara’s work, in the face of attempted suicide, the healer,  Minnie Ransom asks, “Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?”"

https://thefeministwire.com/2014/11/well-being-of-the-community/

"Sophie exhaled it all out and tried to go blank, tried to switch off memory’s pictures and supplant them with peaceful scenes. To go gathering, the feel of the basket handle on her arm. To talk with the lemon grass, enlist the cooperation of eucalyptus. They didn’t mind her, did not resist her. Always came up easily in her grip. Eyebright in the underbrush calling. Bladderwort singing. Calamus around the salt marshes. One of the few places the spirits had not withdrawn from in disgust—neglected, betrayed."

Bambara, Toni Cade. The Salt Eaters (Vintage Contemporaries) (pp. 151-152). . 

“the concrete world of seen and felt objects is viewed as being the causation and motivation for life and reality” (xi). This worldview exists on a lineal, rational, logical, horizontal, and material plane. In S.E., it is this reality, symbolized by political power struggles, gender exploitation, and ecological destruction, that has destabilized both the protagonist Velma Henry and her community of Claybourne

“The labour-in-reciprocity of Vandana Shiva’s forest dwellers or Sara Ruddick’s mothers unifies space–time in the technical act of holding together complex biological flows and linkages of meaning between loved ones. In this activity, the subjectivity of others, including nature’s constant flux, is fostered, just as the caring worker him- or herself develops through such exchanges. Where holding is practised, Petra Kelly’s 1/0 insight that ‘disarmament’ means exposing one’s vulnerability becomes a possibility. Labour-in-reciprocity privileges neither worker nor matter, it annuls that sharp distinction. Holding becomes the moment of knowing, in a carnal sense, between self and nature; an identity/non-identity.”

Excerpt From: Ariel Salleh. “Ecofeminism As Politics.” iBooks. 


*Remotely Situated Research

Thinking about situatedness without necessarily going through physical closeness. How observation techniques situate differently. Implications of invasive imaginations.

"We are *also* in a web browser, rendering a 3D amalgam over a g$$gle maps's street view; satellite tiles, images appear of a past moment, are stitched together as we move. This is the temporality of capitalist turbo-computation. A representation of a region [of Cajamarca] is being rendered in a web-browser. Satellite view. Meaning: cenital. A cenital representation of a wound is now being rendered on a smooth surface. And now." In: Pritchard, Helen; Rocha, Jara and Snelting, Femke. “Figurations of timely extraction” (forthcoming)


"The program is studying how imaginations of the(under)grounds, of the earth and of [the estuary] specifically are rendered. Investigating contemporary scanning practices for tectonic and cosmic imaging (such as magnetic resonance, UltraSound, and Computer Tomography) together with fiction writers, earth techno-scientists and trans*feminist device problematizers" https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/rendering/

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(Mawdach Estuary, collected by Pelydryn Ltd for the Welsh Coastal Monitoring Centre.)


Volumetrics: techniques and technologies for detecting, tracking, printing, modelling and rendering volumes. 

Vertical politics: from territorial solidarity to topological alloyance

"this initial two-dimensional demarcation gives rise to a practice that can be further understood when the many vertical layers that exist simultaneously above and below the ground start to be considered. From the interaction of synthetic nutrients in the soil with the roots of the plants, to the influence of weather or the effect of both human and machinic labour, [agriculture] appears as a volumetric activity" (Abelardo Gil-Fournier)


"If we consider software to be part of an industrial continuum, subjected to a set of values that link optimization, efficiency, and development to proficiency, affordability, and productive resilience, then where should we report the bug of such an amalgam of turbocapitalist forces? To whom should we submit reports on patriarcocolonialism? It also became clearer that making issues smaller, and shallow enough to be squeezed, was the opposite of the movement we needed to make; the trust in the essential modularity of issues was keeping problems in place. (...) The practices of bug reporting could be considered as ways to develop trans*feminist commitments to the notion of thinking-with. This is a mode of engagement with technological objects that is potentially porous to nontechnical contributions; that is: to those by queers, women, people of color, non-adult and other less-entitled contributors. This also means that what seems (and is felt) to be the problem with technosciences has the potential to be arranged in other ways at the site of the bug report. Such porosity for calibration-otherwise and in differing domains opens up through the intense squeezing, fragmentation, and proliferation of problems." In: Pritchard, Helen; Rocha, Jara and Snelting, Femke. “We Have Always Been Geohackers”. (2020) https://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/book/index.php?title=We_Have_Always_Been_Geohackers#Reporting_a_Bug.2C_Bugging_a_Report

https://transmediale.de/content/depths-and-densities-a-bugged-report


+ some thoughts on why The Underground Division proposed to Estuary/Metal to use a different, Open Source self-hosted video conferencing platform (Big Blue Button): https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/elephant



- http://www.churchside1.plus.com/Goldhanger-past/Salt.htm
- electrolisis in the river
- ancient salt - salted ancestors
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http://www.churchside1.plus.com/Goldhanger-past/Salt.htm
http://himalaya.guru/en/
https://www.tideway.london/the-tunnel/

bugreporting

ROCK REPO

Rendering program

Observing the esturary - different distant view points - local otherwise. 
Talking about the amalgamate 

remediations -  at-the-distance/remote research methods

there's an Amazon warehouse there

hyperspectral images

vertical politics

figure/background problematization: nebulous concepts: time, flow...

salt
 Toni Cade Bambara  

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- a situated-remote collective research lab



3 lenses to look through



1. ROCK REPO
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refs:
https://www.hannahleightonboyce.com/persistent-bodies-2018/