Hi Fire Protocols! It lingers with me from your presentation as well as here when you made several notes on the crucial need to share and hear perspectives from the local stakeholders. Perhaps it is precisely about setting up these sharing, hearing, passing-ons, gathering-wisdoms, paying-attentions, asking-questions, reflecting…, whether it’s in-person or via the low-tech tools such as emails or spreadsheets, laboring through coordinating, to every relation that will connect different contexts and stakes between the complexities/realities that interests me. I also love the stories about the memory of fire, quoting your “fire as messenger and memory” and “continuous fire,” where the fire (and the protocol) is about paving paths and links across the world and spirits, while revisiting your original proposal and again inspired by the “looking-away-at” which was what first attracked me to your work.
The way I’m resonating with these methods is probably from a documentary lens, which invites us to look at not only the complex dynamics of one side of the people and their environment we are with when filming, but we’re also carefully thinking about the possibilities (and responsibilities) to pass on these acts of looking and hearing to other sides for potential connections, understandings, and discussions. It’s suddently ringing a bell to me how these could possibly be on a shared track with what I’ve been thinking about for my PILL project, such as to think with the “edges”/“paranode”? …if it’s okay for me to draw this association this way, since I’m still thinking on a very surface level of it all… I’m curious about any continuous means of documentations you’d make while leaving back-and-forth spaces as you weave through these dynamic links by taking its own specificity in your process (if it’s for the contextualization-coordination-memetics process?). I actually also wonder if these detailed and vivid field notes (such as the one from your WEEK 4 post) could contribute to the outcome in the building of this protocol. :))