assignment #1

find 3 possible themes that you want to track and investigate on

argue what are your intentions

activate the library with the energy of curiosity: inform you thought and enrich you arguments by searching different libraries on your themes

then your investigations have to be located in one/two physical places..

our intentions is to create a dialogue between your fields and findings

Ellen Braae guided us to Robert Smithson, let you be guided by him..and discover, reconstruct and use the stones of Jaeren as a metaphor. this means that your expectations of a new potetial will be added to the stones of Jaeren - mentally speaking.

"The earth's surface and the figments of the mind have a way of disintegrating into discrete regions of art. Various agents, both fictional and real, somehow trade places with each other - one cannot avoid muddy thinking when it comes to earth projects, or what I will call "abstract geology". One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain weaves undermine cliffs of though, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason. Vast moving faculties occur in this geological miasma, and they move in the most physical way. (...)" ROBERT SMITHSON / A SEDIMENTATION OF THE MIND - EARTH PROJECTS (1968)

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