Cabin in the Woods is a departure from our previous episodes. In those episodes we went deep into the ideas of certain philosophies and practices of entanglement. This time we put the thinking aside and immerse you in a meditative journey through sound and script. Ease your headphones on and let the "spatial audio" engulf you.

Created by Fight With a Stick artists:

Alex Lazaridis: Research, script and voice.
James Maxwell: Composer.
Jay White: Graphic.
Everything around you: The rest of it.

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Produced by Fight With a Stick Performance
with the support of The Canada Council for the Arts, The City of Vancouver Cultural Affairs, The BC Arts Council, The Province of British Columbia.

Episode 2 explores transformation. How do we become ourselves, what holds us together, and for how long? How are boundaries created, and how bounded are they? We take inspiration from Chapter 11 of the now classic tome, A Thousand Plateaus, by French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Along the way we get some help from  Kym Maclaren, Canadian phenomenologist, and philosopher of intimacy.

Credits
Voice and text: Alex Lazaridis
Composer: James Maxwell

Produced by Fight With a Stick Performance
with the support of The Canada Council for the Arts, The City of Vancouver Cultural Affairs, The BC Arts Council, The Province of British Columbia.

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Episode 1, Thinking with the Forest, connects the work of Montreal-based anthropologist Eduardo Kohn — and his careful exploration of the question ‘what is a self, and do plants and animals have one?’ — to our own approach to collaborative creation with all the 'selves' around us. The main source for this episode is Kohn's book How Forests Think. We also draw on the work of Jane Bennett and her book Vibrant Matter, Peter Wohlleben and his book The Hidden Life of Trees, and the work of Canadian forest ecologist Suzanne Simard.

Credits:
Text and voice: Alex Lazaridis
Sound composition: James Maxwell
Visual artwork: Jay White
Other contributors: The world around us
 
About the series
The Refrain: Getting in Sync with the World  is an investigation of the ideas that inform the work of Fight With a Stick Performance. Through  voice and sound we investigate our interconnectedness with the world around us and our collaboration with the other-than-human. Each episode explores one or more approaches, including philosophies such as assemblage theory, Object Oriented Ontology, post humanism, anthropology beyond the human, neuroscience, traditional cultures, resurgent cultures, new forestry, biology, and more.
 
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 Sources:
 
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human. By Eduardo Kohn. https://www.amazon.ca/How-Forests-Think-Toward-Anthropology/dp/0520276116/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3RQVY2FQ748FF&keywords=how+forests+think&qid=1657037565&sprefix=How+forests+t%2Caps%2C206&sr=8-1

Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. By Jane Bennett. https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=vibrant+matter+jane+bennett&i=stripbooks&crid=3JBGGKZQXYR1J&sprefix=Vibrant+Matter%2Cstripbooks%2C215&ref=nb_sb_ss_c_2_14_ts-doa-p

The Hidden Life of Trees. By Peter Wohlleben. https://www.amazon.ca/Hidden-Life-ofTrees-Illustrated/dp/177164348X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2Y2MIL4UXRMCE&keywords=Wolleben&qid=1657037846&s=books&sprefix=wolleben%2Cstripbooks%2C279&sr=1-1

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest. By Suzanne Simard. https://www.amazon.ca/Finding-Mother-Tree-Discovering-Intelligence/dp/0735237751/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3A3OEUG43T0QM&keywords=finding+the+mother+tree+by+suzanne+simard&qid=1657037926&s=books&sprefix=Finding+the+mother%2Cstripbooks%2C221&sr=1-1

Video YouTube lecture: Anthropology as Cosmic Diplomacy: Toward an Ecological Ethics for the Anthropocene. Eduardo Kohn. https://youtu.be/87yJKnVSd0k

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