Undergrowth Projects for 2006

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" Beloved imagination, what I most like in you is your unsparing quality."
Andre Breton - The Surrealist Manifesto

Undergrowth is a space for us to concoct new paradigms, manifestations of the revolution, sonnets to chaos, love letters to the moon, temporary autonomous interzones, alchemical collaborations between creative kindreds, manifestos of whimsy, whimsical monuments to the moment.

This forum is a place to post ideas for collective projects, which may or may not manifest under the Undergrowth banner. The point is not in the branding, but in the fostering of creation. If you are seeking co-conspirators, here is the place to conspire. It's the digital cafe at the end of the world, serving expresso to help plot the next revolutionary art movement, to craft poetry that will shift consciousness, or just to jam.

In this spirit, we want to open up our next year of projects to the community. If you are interested in any of the projects outlined below contact Tim Parish, the Art Director at art@undergrowth.org or post your suggestions and comments on this site. It is possible that not all of these projects will take place this year, but that kind of depends on the critical mass behind them. We're just putting them out there so we can see who bites. Throwing it to the wind to see which are spears and which are boomerangs... yo?

You are most welcome to join in, or to submit material not on these topics but on the Undergrowth vibe to the Features section
on an ongoing basis.

Nomadology
This will be an upcoming e-Book and limited print book edition by the Undergrowth collective, collating a selection of stories and photography from the Nomadology
blog project. Deadline for this collection is the 6th of January 2006, exactly one year after the site was launched. Nomadology will continue on indefinitely as a website, as long as we are all alive and kicking the stagnation of the static. But, Ozco didn't fund us to just to blog the world away. Books are tangible materialisations of our thoughts. This time we'll be shopping around for publishers - so if you are a publisher, or want to contribute to Nomadology, contact us. We'd love to share the journey with you.

RANDOM MOLECULES

is an upcoming issue of Undergrowth Magazine, where the theme is chaos and order. From the quantum to cosmic, science shamans to chaos magik, political powerplays to psychedelic activism, free radicals and spiritual anarchism - what are the random molecular patterns in the universe?

Basically we wish to throw the deck of cards in the wind and see where they land. We are seeking contributions of art, photography, creative writing, jourrnalism, video, music ; you get the idea...

nothing is forbiddden
everything is permitted...

Random Molecules is the first issue of the Undergrowth magazine we will produce using the possibilities of our new sites open publishing abilities, so there is no dealdine per se. Accepted material will be immediately published live on the Undergrowth site and collected in a full colour limited edition thanks to the support of sponsors: www.grownfuel.com . A selection of work will also be invited to exhibit as part of a Random Molecules Exhibition in April/May. Now accepting contributions to Undergrowth #6 -Random Molecules

contact: editorial@undergrowth.org ~ art: art@undergrowth.org ~ contribute@undergrowth.org

{Lets Play}

Science Factions
Ever feel like you're living in one huge on going science fiction novel with robots and virtual reality and spaceships and big brother and soma and clones empires striking back and eco-utopias hidden around every corner? Welcome to Science Factions - a compendium of non-fiction anecdotes about the world we live in, which could be straight out of a sci-fi author's mind - but it's real. A user's guide to the future for those who are living in the past. An upcoming special issue of Undergrowth Magazine in early 2006...

Another World is Happening
Based on the documentary project from 2003, AWIH will be a sister site to the Undergrowth website, but one specifically focused on sustainability ideas and manifestations. It will be a cross-media project intent on collecting, discussing and promoting revolutionary concepts based on sustainability, with video documentary, articles, e-books, interviews and a whole lot imagineering. We want to utilise the networking facilities that the web community allows to facilitate and promote the cross-pollination of new thought and imagination on the topic of sustainability. AWIH will be a repository of inspiring, inventive and paradigm shifting ideas which are already happening throughout the world. We believe that one of the biggest obstacles to manifesting a sustainable society is that the ideas and examples are all around us, but the nature of the media and its focus on the negative, the lack of coherent ongoing coverage and the atomised, disconnected mentality all contribute to the prevailing attitude that it is all too big to change... Fuck that. Let's connect the dots.

Geomancy
Put simply, Geomancy is the ancient Chinese name for Earth Magic. This will be a new DVD collection of short films, animations and documentary focusing on the relationship to land. Different to the Resolution project, Geomancy is less an overtly political project and much more focusing on artistic exploration of the medium of the motion pixel and the Earth in which we live. We want landscape paintings in DV, poetic meditations on atmospheric phenomena, bushcraft rituals and movie spells. To inquire contact art@undergrowth.org
Send submissions to:
Undergrowth HQ
37 Thomson St, Northcote, VIC 3070

More soon...

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The Future is Now / Technology has saved us /Science Fiction is our reality / Prophecy foretold and fulfilled /Cyberspace VR bubble tech is all the rage amongst the first class citizenry ~ Escape hatches into imagineered codeworld habitats ~ Suicide rates rise as life loses meaning ~ Cyborgs are tre chic, but once you go, you cant come back ~ Digital sex drugs proliferate in the legal marketplace ~ Marijuana is still illegal ~ Gated communes of hippy elites and Christian fundamentalists live in peaceful animosity, ignoring each other as they shop together at the mall of the world franchise store ~ The greatest casino ever was the World Trade Centre, blown up by irate customers who were trained by the CIA and lost it all on the blackjack table ~ Space exploration is reality, but in truth it is boring, consisting of stasis tubes and virtual reality sexcapades to pass the time between star systems ~ On the way to Alpha Centauri "space cabin fever" implodes the first crew, a fact which is covered up by UNASA. Indymedia leaks the story but Star Trek cults continue to sign up en masse to join the Space Rat Race regardless ~ Paramilitary police maraud the public housing development suburbs ~ Judges inflicting mandatory detentions on indigineous crimes and misdemenours make more work for private prison corporations ~ Big Brother watches over the monoculture with surveillance tech, broadcasts it to spectator culture via Reality TV ~ Empire inflicts public relations edicts via billboard marketing methods, engineering democracy to suit the power structures elite ~ Aliens have landed; colonising the multiculture with weeds, vermin, and white trash culture. Others are refugees, escaping their homeworld wars, only to be placed on the moon in what is called the "lunar solution" ~ HyperSoma is the new age television, interactive with prozac and trash media. The dominant species is the car, followed by the cow, both are experts at flattening the ecology underneath ~ Genegineer corp. has forced their products onto starving nations, buying up all arable land to grow coffee and other export luxuries while natives go hungry ~ Spent a billion on researching high protein potatoes which are still just a fraction of nutrition in an organic eggplant ~ Battery farms mass produce every product; Meat factories/Fish farms/Warehouses full of animals with stolen souls, and the livestock they are paid to look after ~ A child grows up without ever tasting a real tomato ~ Pesticide flavour is the latest favourite condiment at the fast food franchises ~ Pills developed for space travel replace the boring task of cooking and eating/Welcome to the Simulacrum.


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Undergrowth Projects for 2006 login or register to post comments \| previous forum topic " Beloved imagination, what I most like in you is your unsparing quality." Andre Breton - The Surrealist Manifesto Undergrowth is a space for us to concoct new paradigms, manifestations of the revolution, sonnets to chaos, love letters to the moon, temporary autonomous interzones, alchemical collaborations between creative kindreds, manifestos of whimsy, whimsical monuments to the moment. This forum is a place to post ideas for collective projects, which may or may not manifest under the Undergrowth banner. The point is not in the branding, but in the fostering of creation. If you are seeking co-conspirators, here is the place to conspire. It's the digital cafe at the end of the world, serving expresso to help plot the next revolutionary art movement, to craft poetry that will shift consciousness, or just to jam. In this spirit, we want to open up our next year of projects to the community. If you are interested in any of the projects outlined below contact Tim Parish, the Art Director at art@undergrowth.org or post your suggestions and comments on this site. It is possible that not all of these projects will take place this year, but that kind of depends on the critical mass behind them. We're just putting them out there so we can see who bites. Throwing it to the wind to see which are spears and which are boomerangs... yo? You are most welcome to join in, or to submit material not on these topics but on the Undergrowth vibe to the Features section on an ongoing basis. Nomadology This will be an upcoming e-Book and limited print book edition by the Undergrowth collective, collating a selection of stories and photography from the Nomadology blog project. Deadline for this collection is the 6th of January 2006, exactly one year after the site was launched. Nomadology will continue on indefinitely as a website, as long as we are all alive and kicking the stagnation of the static. But, Ozco didn't fund us to just to blog the world away. Books are tangible materialisations of our thoughts. This time we'll be shopping around for publishers - so if you are a publisher, or want to contribute to Nomadology, contact us. We'd love to share the journey with you. RANDOM MOLECULES is an upcoming issue of Undergrowth Magazine, where the theme is chaos and order. From the quantum to cosmic, science shamans to chaos magik, political powerplays to psychedelic activism, free radicals and spiritual anarchism - what are the random molecular patterns in the universe? Basically we wish to throw the deck of cards in the wind and see where they land. We are seeking contributions of art, photography, creative writing, jourrnalism, video, music ; you get the idea... nothing is forbiddden everything is permitted... Random Molecules is the first issue of the Undergrowth magazine we will produce using the possibilities of our new sites open publishing abilities, so there is no dealdine per se. Accepted material will be immediately published live on the Undergrowth site and collected in a full colour limited edition thanks to the support of sponsors: www.grownfuel.com . A selection of work will also be invited to exhibit as part of a Random Molecules Exhibition in April/May. Now accepting contributions to Undergrowth #6 -Random Molecules contact: editorial@undergrowth.org ~ art: art@undergrowth.org ~ contribute@undergrowth.org {Lets Play} Science Factions Ever feel like you're living in one huge on going science fiction novel with robots and virtual reality and spaceships and big brother and soma and clones empires striking back and eco-utopias hidden around every corner? Welcome to Science Factions - a compendium of non-fiction anecdotes about the world we live in, which could be straight out of a sci-fi author's mind - but it's real. A user's guide to the future for those who are living in the past. An upcoming special issue of Undergrowth Magazine in early 2006... Another World is Happening Based on the documentary project from 2003, AWIH will be a sister site to the Undergrowth website, but one specifically focused on sustainability ideas and manifestations. It will be a cross-media project intent on collecting, discussing and promoting revolutionary concepts based on sustainability, with video documentary, articles, e-books, interviews and a whole lot imagineering. We want to utilise the networking facilities that the web community allows to facilitate and promote the cross-pollination of new thought and imagination on the topic of sustainability. AWIH will be a repository of inspiring, inventive and paradigm shifting ideas which are already happening throughout the world. We believe that one of the biggest obstacles to manifesting a sustainable society is that the ideas and examples are all around us, but the nature of the media and its focus on the negative, the lack of coherent ongoing coverage and the atomised, disconnected mentality all contribute to the prevailing attitude that it is all too big to change... Fuck that. Let's connect the dots. Geomancy Put simply, Geomancy is the ancient Chinese name for Earth Magic. This will be a new DVD collection of short films, animations and documentary focusing on the relationship to land. Different to the Resolution project, Geomancy is less an overtly political project and much more focusing on artistic exploration of the medium of the motion pixel and the Earth in which we live. We want landscape paintings in DV, poetic meditations on atmospheric phenomena, bushcraft rituals and movie spells. To inquire contact art@undergrowth.org Send submissions to: Undergrowth HQ 37 Thomson St, Northcote, VIC 3070 More soon... Open Discussion

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The Future is Now / Technology has saved us /Science Fiction is our reality / Prophecy foretold and fulfilled /Cyberspace VR bubble tech is all the rage amongst the first class citizenry ~ Escape hatches into imagineered codeworld habitats ~ Suicide rates rise as life loses meaning ~ Cyborgs are tre chic, but once you go, you cant come back ~ Digital sex drugs proliferate in the legal marketplace ~ Marijuana is still illegal ~ Gated communes of hippy elites and Christian fundamentalists live in peaceful animosity, ignoring each other as they shop together at the mall of the world franchise store ~ The greatest casino ever was the World Trade Centre, blown up by irate customers who were trained by the CIA and lost it all on the blackjack table ~ Space exploration is reality, but in truth it is boring, consisting of stasis tubes and virtual reality sexcapades to pass the time between star systems ~ On the way to Alpha Centauri "space cabin fever" implodes the first crew, a fact which is covered up by UNASA. Indymedia leaks the story but Star Trek cults continue to sign up en masse to join the Space Rat Race regardless ~ Paramilitary police maraud the public housing development suburbs ~ Judges inflicting mandatory detentions on indigineous crimes and misdemenours make more work for private prison corporations ~ Big Brother watches over the monoculture with surveillance tech, broadcasts it to spectator culture via Reality TV ~ Empire inflicts public relations edicts via billboard marketing methods, engineering democracy to suit the power structures elite ~ Aliens have landed; colonising the multiculture with weeds, vermin, and white trash culture. Others are refugees, escaping their homeworld wars, only to be placed on the moon in what is called the "lunar solution" ~ HyperSoma is the new age television, interactive with prozac and trash media. The dominant species is the car, followed by the cow, both are experts at flattening the ecology underneath ~ Genegineer corp. has forced their products onto starving nations, buying up all arable land to grow coffee and other export luxuries while natives go hungry ~ Spent a billion on researching high protein potatoes which are still just a fraction of nutrition in an organic eggplant ~ Battery farms mass produce every product; Meat factories/Fish farms/Warehouses full of animals with stolen souls, and the livestock they are paid to look after ~ A child grows up without ever tasting a real tomato ~ Pesticide flavour is the latest favourite condiment at the fast food franchises ~ Pills developed for space travel replace the boring task of cooking and eating/Welcome to the Simulacrum.
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