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DH: They are: 1) The Crochet Coral Reef project; 2) the Madagascar Malagasy-English children's natural history Ako Project books by Alison Jolly and her collaborators; 3) the Never Alone computer game project of the Inupiat in Alaska in alliance with E-line Media people; and finally 4) the coalition work among the Black Mesa Navajo and Hopi, the scientists and indigenous herding people committed to Churro sheep, the Black Mesa Weavers for Life and Land, and most of all the Diné activists of the Black Mesa Water Coalition. TNG: What you stress with each of these is that each is risky, each is about tangled lives, each is an example of»science art worldings in which scientists, artists, ordinary members of communities, and nonhuman beings become enfolded in each other's projects, in each other's lives.«11 The most complicated and the one I want to focus on is the fourth - the Navajo weaving which brings together the Navajo-Churro sheep restoration and the Black Mesa Water Coalition. DH: SF is my way into it, but I try from the start to interrupt my own SF idiom with the Navajo word na'atl'o', the Diné word, and then tie that to 11 Staying with the Trouble, 22. 342 Im Gespräch the fibers of the Navajo-Churro sheep, to the women's practices, which really can't be appropriated as an art practice either. TNG: The Navajo weaving is also a multispecies art project since the wool of the Churro sheep ties people to animals through patterns of care and what you call»response-ability.«Could you talk about it?. [Extracted from the article] |
