Field|guide is a curated collection of written work, music, film, and visual art composed into a series of printed, digital, and in-person experiences. Though we resist labels, the closest analogue is to a literary/art journal with a robust online component, to be released alongside a musical and visual installation and concert. We hope to develop this project iteratively over the next few years with the help of a series of artists, poets, musicians, essayists, philosophers, scientists, and filmmakers.
Our first edition is organized around discussions of the varieties of silence and liminality, particularly, the way silence works at the substantiating edges of experience, or, more precisely, underlies and permeates action and motion. Also at issue is the role silence plays in memory, emotions, relationships, growth, and decay.
Along with silence, the first issue will explore the history and salience of the concept of “aether” and its various satellite concepts (waves, oscillations, fields, perturbations, rhythms, etc.), ranging from the writings of early hermetic thinkers and German Romantic poet-philosophers like Hölderlin and Hegel, to more modern scientific thinking on the subject, including the newest developments in quantum field theory and gravitational science. This cluster of concepts is mirrored over and over again at nearly every level of human discourse, and we understand this first edition of field|guide to be an extended reflection on how we use them to grasp at the ambiguousness of lived experience in the midst of a tremendous and beautiful cosmos.
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