Tempodesert Came Out after what we called the world after 8/8 when Fay and Abdelkarim watched in youtube The Draw of the Desert 8/8 Seminar by Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani, held on March 15, 2024.
Tempodesert is a performative lab that poetically investigates the holistic notion of the geological, ephemeral, eternal, and mythological temporalities of the desert, from an endless propositions and states:
Desert as a fluid body.
Tempodesert produces performances, plays, texts, songs, films, publications, workshops, and walks.
Desert Without Sand: Sequential Practices...soon
Desert Without Sand: Sequential Practices is an online publication and printed matter consisting of a collection of performance scripts, scores, and diagrams that unfold as a guide and manual to performativly negotiate the multiplicity of the desert as a space of fugitivity, a land of resistance, as space of hermeticism, as nature, as un-nature, as site of erasure, as site of emergence, as stage for speculative futures, as memory keeper, as a map of silence and echoes, as witness, as site of grief, as myth, as home.
Our questions revolve around the possibilities of conceptualizing the desert as a pedagogical site for unlearning the colonial and Western-centric gaze often perpetuated in literature and cultural representations, and through that learning about its inherent notion. How might this process challenge frameworks of exoticism, romanticism, exploitation, and the desert’s symbolic role as both the "unknown" and the "other," as well as its use as a backdrop for Western modernity, civilization, and progress? As well as how can the desert be re-centered as a generative space for the production of alternative knowledge?
Our questions revolve around the possibilities of conceptualizing the desert as a pedagogical site for unlearning the colonial and Western-centric gaze often perpetuated in literature and cultural representations, and through that learning about its inherent notion. How might this process challenge frameworks of exoticism, romanticism, exploitation, and the desert’s symbolic role as both the "unknown" and the "other," as well as its use as a backdrop for Western modernity, civilization, and progress? As well as how can the desert be re-centered as a generative space for the production of alternative knowledge?