Living Deep Time Calendar Year 000001

We dedicated 362.2425 days in 002016 to researching and inventing ways to live time on our planet differently. We searched for ways that were up to the radical newness of what time means in the Anthropocene. The result is a truly contemporary calendar that helps orient humans in the dizzying new time-habitat that is the Anthropocene.

Living Deep Time Calendar Year 000001 is the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign in November 002016.

It is a perpetual calendar and can be activated anytime of the year, starting from any date.

image: the times of Earth + Moon, from Living Deep Time Calendar Year 000001

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Maybe like us, you think it’s time to change the way we humans are living time on this planet.

Maybe like us, you think art can be a mysteriously powerful vehicle for doing that.

Living Deep Time Calendar Year 000001 is a medium that invites you to notice and appreciate wildly diverse speeds, scales, rhythms and durations of time swirling around you, within you, and as you. Use it an inspiration to create relief, wonder, and livable time in the Anthropocene. Connect to the many, often strange, time beings beyond yourself. Open channels for creating wonder and meaning in your life that respond to the challenges of the Anthropocene.

Living Deep Time Calendar Year 000001, edition of 200, consists of:

• one 46-card set, including three introductory cards and 43 poetic images with accompanying text.
  They will escort you into encounters with the times of intimate and distant things and beings.
  Printed on both sides of elliptically shaped, 4.5″ x 5.25” card stock.

• one naturally finished wood holder for displaying and interacting with the images and text. 

• one cotton-muslin bag to hold the collection of calendar cards. 

• one 6″ x 9″ illustration that you can annotate daily to visualize where you are within the time-producing movements of the earth around the sun.

The 43 calendar cards are your vehicles to:

• Observe the massive and intimate forces of time within and around you.

• Wonder at time’s speeds and scales.

• Draw inspiration from time’s wild creativeness.

• Navigate big fast change in the Anthropocene.

• Re-score your experiences of distracted “modern” rhythms.
  

The Living Deep Time Calendar 000001 includes images and text for the times of:

experience
fiber optic cables
temporary housing
Ise Jingu
the galactic year
the color blue
uranium
the human body
the ancestors
the fifth season
the hurricane
corals
kintsugi
jellyfish
the journey
soils
the cloud
plastic
bacteria
the zodiac
+ more!

During our year of research, we sent our funders field dispatches in the form of limited edition postcards—original works of mail art.
Each dispatch described a practice that we discovered through our process.
To read more and experience these dispatches, see the following links:

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