On Aggregation: Indigenous Mounds as Technological Thought in Coastal China and North America

András Blazsek; Emily Verla Bovino

On Aggregation: Indigenous Mounds as Technological Thought in Coastal China and North America

András Blazsek ^*, Emily Verla Bovino

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Creative Media

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Abstract

Mounds are aggregations: gatherings of materials that exteriorise a culture working through its conception of time and structuring of the universe. Settler states founded on the displacement of indigenous populations compulsively perform the effacement of aggregations, either by demolition or by transformation into accumulations for surplus value.

This paper, performed as a lecture recital, explores aggregation as a technique, distinct from collecting and archiving for its spatial sensibility, and from architecture for its relation to landscape. The accompanying sound-experiment sonifies aggregate data from geological studies of an iconic earthwork using microsounds from field recordings of its insects; the data also spatialises the resulting sound.

Original language	English
Publication status	Presented - 12 Nov 2021
Event	Embodying Local Knowledges Critical Ecologies Symposium: Panel 2, Art Ecology, And Contest Indigeneity - Online, Taipei & Hong Kong Duration: 12 Nov 2021 → 12 Nov 2021 https://shared-campus.com/themes/critical-ecologies/conversations-with-ten-thousand-things/symposium-embodying-local-knowledges/panel-3-art-and-microbial-worlds/

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