Territory
The territory for strange ciders is somewhere between several
pre-established domains: food production, local slow food movements, culinary
arts, urban design, microbiology, laboratory practice, philosophy, politics, and
maybe even curiosity museums. It’s taking something from each of these places
but also resisting most of what each of these domains have to offer. The
territory I’m dealing with then isn’t any of these but an opportunistic,
parasitic territory that’s leaching off of pre-established systems (not only
the conceptual systems listed above but the system of capitalism, academia,
ecology, etc. that is the University) while disregarding the unimportant stuff.
Problem
If I think of my project as a parasitic or
tumorous growth on campus, the problem becomes one of evolutionary survival—coevolution.
I had this as a prompt before with the squirrels but I think it’s still the
main problem just in a different context. How can my territory not only survive
but grow and multiply in the midst of a system regulated by powers (night
patrol watchmen, economic control, rules regulations and laws, food codes, biohazard concerns, etc.).
I have to evolve and strategize to continue resisting and making—especially if
they ever catch on. This also seems to suggest a lot of self-importance to my
project which in reality I don’t think is present at this point, but I
guess this is a ‘hopeful’ problem that I will eventually have.
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