We're working on a new project with a great group of collaborators—and want to share pieces of our work in progress here.
A Catalogue of Extinct Experience
As modern technology and urbanization have opened up new and faster experiences, they have at the same time destroyed other experiences that were once universal. The loss of these human
experiences is a fundamental disruption of the relationship between society and its environment.
A Catalogue of Extinct Experience is a public, outdoor landscape installation to inspire a shift in perspective on the natural world. It does so by engaging the visitor in sensory experiences that are commonly endangered or extinct.
These experiences range from seeing stars in the night sky (endangered by light pollution), feeling the ground under bare feet (endangered by shoes and concrete), tasting wild edible plants (endangered by industrial food production), and listening to fog roll in and out (endangered by constant background noise).
The visitor will explore the Catalogue on foot, stopping at a number of built installations distributed along walking paths. Identified by benchmarks in the ground, these installations or ‘Pauses’ will each orchestrate a direct experiential connection to a forgotten sense, and create and opportunity for reflection and rediscovery.
The set of ‘Pauses’ take cues from the dramatic natural and industrial history of the site, Commonweal Institute in Bolinas, CA, which occupies a former marine radio transmitting station on coastal bluffs.
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