Calthemitic Sticky Thinking

This LINK to an online Picker Wheel will allow you to shuffle the pack of sticky thinking cards and randomly select cards. 

You will need the Guidance Booklet in order to interpret the cards. Please contact me to order this - it costs £5+p&p

Calthemite, a pseudo-karst also termed ‘urban stalactite’ – ‘grows’ under aged concrete urban architectures.  In response to pollutive airborne particulate found in them, this study investigates calthemite ‘archaeologists of airs’ as creative collaborators and mentors.  Ideas of affective and creepy lithic agency draws on Jane Bennett’s vital materiality1 and Mark Fisher’s interpretation of the uncanny2.  The weird and creepy signposted speculative approaches to exploring contemporary archaeologic space by creative art archaeology practice.

Attempts were also made to respond to needs for humility in ecological understanding, navigate different vulnerabilities produced within the trans-life collaboration, and uncover calthemite pasts within urban and cement production landscapes.

The outcome; a deck of 16 awareness cards and a booklet suggests serendipitous prompts can filter research archives and widen human consciousness to lithic being in trans-life collaborations.

1.Bennett, J. (2010) Vibrant Matter: A political ecology of things. Durham: Duke University Press.
2.Fisher, M. (2016) The weird and the eerie. London: Repeater Books

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