The unknown (and in some cases the unknowable) haunt this place like ecstatic spectres, inviting our investigation, our curiosity and ultimately demanding our intellect. Ecopolitical terraforming becomes ever more plausible. It is a place that bares marks of familiarity but maintains a restless psychogeography that can shift without warning. We are already in The Zone even if we refuse (or fail) to recognise it. The work seeks to recognise that to take our acquired methodologies, knowledge and habituated lives forward without examination reduces the possible futures that splinter infinitely before us. It is also a study of the world in these moments of radical public action. The title is a nod to the speculative fiction of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky their text a perfect parallel to appreciate the uncertainties of what may lie ahead.
Field Recordings from The Zone is a contemplation of this proposition. “Sometimes, we need to stop (everything) if we are going to start to realise new ways of being in this world. These are technically brilliant and emotionally pregnant recordings from “The Zone”, a place we find ourselves in right now, where we just might still have time to reshape the world around us if we pause to acknowledge and address our own actions. Almost an hour of heart-stopping location recordings made by Lawrence English in Queensland, Australia in the aftermath of a summer of intense bushfires and just as the lockdown started to re-shape lives globally earlier this year.
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