## Forkonomy() ver 4 - internal:work-in-progress
- DAC, Solid art, ADL, ESC

## audio clips for meditation guide (20 mins)
Meditation Script [](https://hackmd.io/ZcWJ8i4_RpC4r9LVIOCb7Q)

### context/parameters:

- Duration: 3 hours

- Invitee: marine biologist, activist, fisherman, technologists, students, social cooperate leaders, policymakers, artists

- keywords: #ownership #MilitaryStrategy
- rundown (3 hrs)
- intro + round the table intro
- making use of water

1. Starting Ritual + round table speaking
small water bottle --> distribute to them (==lending?==)

2. Slide Intro (20 mins)
- quick context (reuse slide)
- workshop v 1,2,3 (ownership + contract)
- 7 contracts (large frame)
- what's ver 4?

3. Bodily intervention (artistically express the feelings of incapability)

- meditative audio guide 20 mins ＋ military / protest voices / fishing / announcement / planes, ships, etc

- bypass methods to interrupt

BREAK

4. Military Strategy as a way of owning the sea (80 mins)
4-1 to buy or not to buy (15 mins)
- beautiful object? / fun
- have some sort of agency?
- support the project
- help organizing/participating some sort of collective actions?
4-2 introducing strategy (1-2 slides per strategy)
4-3 deep dive into 1-2 strategies
4-4 contribution (discussion & drawing?): - feelings / artistic strategies or artistic forms and intervention
- how to organize collective actions?
- what can we do as a community (committee member)?
- what would you like to see about this committee?
- how to organize the communication platform?
4-5 check-in the purchase
- withdraw/ pour the water back to the bucket?
- contract signing and spreading it
4-6 drawing of collective actions
- something that can be documented visually for other committee members?

5. Concluding and platform discussion

- Platform of communication or visual communication:
- Where would be the best place to continue the dialogue?
- the platform is for whom?
- eg. Reddit (include public opinion) /
- how to weight different opinions? (between ver.1 - ver.4)
- or other platforms (e.g self built open source forums, DAO, etc)

- Bottle with a hyperlink tag + selling and signing a contract?


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## materials / actions

- Cash bottle
- print contracts (36 copies)
- W + T: book ticket
- W: revisting the books
- W: equipment: speakers, a computer, drawing pens, papers, projector, cushion on carpet, refreshment, anyone to do the documentation?
- W: recruitment of participants from Reni (- Invitee: marine biologist, activist, fisherman, technologists, students, social cooperate leaders, policymakers, artists)
- W: some sort of production fees
- Tzutung: tag + audio sound
- pre-workshop:
- 1 ml bottle (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08Y8T8BWW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
- book printing and binding (from Austria)
- print contracts (36 copies)
- post-workshop (250 euro not include the carpet):
- hyperlink tag materials + bottles (https://www.indiamart.com/proddetail/fabric-hang-tag-22936911333.html),
- Delivery fee (?): sending water to other committee members (100 euro)
- Contract framing (A4) -> cost?? -
- shipment of carpet and other things back to Taiwan (checked/agreed)

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- tentative outcomes
- make ecology relations
- rethinking the group that we gathered e.g democratic procedures, how to reunite the committee members (international alliance)
- rethinking the workshop procedures
- outstanding:
- send reni the book for printing and binding

### Why meaningful to us:

- south china sea rarely be touched upon by artist (political sensitive)
- how technology would facilitate the queer up of the sea and ownership?
- idea of ownership and sourveigty -> trace where is this idea come from -> colonialism (land/sea -> living)
- how countries claim land ownership e.g using of law, land survey, (taiwan/Japan, HK/UK/CN), military power (national violence and justification, but also non violence action in activism)

### ecology relations:
- ecological changes due to military power (e.g engines)....
- strategies to claim ownership about the sea

workshop process/procedures:

- tzutung:
- threatrical and sensorial experience in the participatory format (e.g carpet, bucket, etc); relationship with audiences: not only contributing their knowledge but also entering a particular set up
- contract, NFT ...loosing audience for each workshop...connection with others (future audience, etc)

- how sensing practices change our way of thinking ownership?

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# Research

## sensing practices

- water quality sensors: https://www.renkeer.com/top-7-water-quality-sensors/; COD Sensor, Dissolved Oxygen Sensor
- Sensors Used in Military Applications and the Electrical Connectors That Keep Them Powered: https://www.beadelectronics.com/blog/sensors-used-in-military-applications-and-the-electrical-connectors-that-keep-them-powered
- South China Sea water monitoring report: https://chinawaterrisk.org/resources/analysis-reviews/2022-marine-ecology-environment-status-review/
- military confrontation (SCS): https://www.cfr.org/report/military-confrontation-south-china-sea

- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/19/china-supports-maritime-militia-to-assert-south-china-sea-claim : purpose-built militia vessels and commercial fishing fleets -> China has been building artificial islands with airstrips, sheltered ports and other military infrastructure. -> But remote sensing and photographic evidence can be combined to distinguish militia vessels from non-militia. -> The line between commercial and defence activities by China’s military militia can often become blurred as many vessels still engage in large-scale fishing operations while also working alongside the military or law enforcement patrols, said Collin Koh, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore

- ecologicl real politics / The independece of energy facing warfares:
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/114/365035/for-an-ecological-realpolitik/

https://geopolitique.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Green-War-Ecology-PDF.pdf

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## Categories of military strategies around South China Sea
- incapable to response
- losing the ability to set boundary
- military and mentally -> freeze mode
- ownership

"Since 2009, China has advanced its territorial claims in this region through a variety of tactics—such as reclaiming land, militarizing islands it controls, and using legal arguments and diplomatic influence—without triggering a serious confrontation with the United States or causing a regional backlash." (https://www.cfr.org/report/military-confrontation-south-china-sea)

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#### Establishing additional territories

4. creation of two new municipal districts that govern the Paracel and Spratly Islands, an attempt to strengthen its claims in the South China Sea by projecting an image of administrative control. (https://www.cfr.org/report/military-confrontation-south-china-sea)
- China ~~could also ~~declare an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) around the Spratly Islands. China is already building capabilities to enforce an ADIZ and is installing radars on various islands in the South China Sea. (https://www.cfr.org/report/military-confrontation-south-china-sea)
- “China has sovereignty over the Spratly islands, as well as surrounding maritime areas. Stay away immediately to avoid misjudgment,” one of the stern radio messages said in a veiled threat. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/21/china-has-fully-militarized-three-islands-in-south-china-sea-us-admiral-says)
- “I am a sovereign immune United States naval aircraft conducting lawful military activities beyond the national airspace of any coastal state,” a US pilot radioed back to the Chinese. “Exercising these rights is guaranteed by international law and I am operating with due regard to the rights and duties of all states,” he said.

- narration and mapping via creation of the nine-dash line: as a means of coercing other competing claimants to accept these Beijing-mandated boundaries.

- Building airports, stores (military infrastructure) on the islands of the South China Sea e.g https://amti.csis.org/paracels-beijings-other-buildup/
see before and after image here: https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/china/2015/12/151215_special_south_china_sea_islands

- Building artificial island on the South China Sea area, serve as the base of fighter aircraft and military weapons, while claiming it is just for the self-defense purpose.https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/world-60846980

1Using pandemic as the opportunity to expand their army
https://www.taylorfravel.com/category/south-china-sea/
[Active Defense](https://reading.udn.com/read/story/122749/6287232)

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#### harrassing

- harassing other countries’ oil and gas exploration platforms, fishing vessels, and military vessels. (e.g In May 2019, China deployed its coast guard to intimidate Vietnamese offshore support vessels servicing a drilling platform near Vietnam’s southern coast, an area the Vietnamese consider territorial waters and that supplies a significant percentage of oil for a Vietnamese pipeline.)

- routinely flying military aircraft dangerously close to oil rigs, a practice known as buzzing

- Creation of Air Defense Identification Zones (ADIZ): China has announced an Air Defense Identification Zone over the East China Sea, which includes disputed areas. While not directly in the South China Sea, this move demonstrates China's willingness to assert control over airspace and monitor foreign military aircraft movements. https://www.reuters.com/graphics/TAIWAN-CHINA/byvrjrmgnve/

- Blurring the line between commercial and defence activities by China's military militia (large-scale fishing operations _ law enforcement patrols)
~~2. avoid a multilateral approach, instead focussing on bilateral negotiation and dialogue when managing the disputed territories and water in the South China Sea. (read: David A. Welch, The diplomat, China’s curious South China Sea negotiation policy, http://thediplomat.com/2016/06/chinascurious-south-china-sea-negotistion-policy/, (accessed August 29, 2016))~~

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#### Disinformation & Fake Narration

- Referecing literatures, archiological evidence as well as blurring the history between ROC and PRC to claim that China is the earliest country that had found and use the South China Sea: [中國南海網](https://www.thesouthchinasea.org.cn/)

- Information Warfare and Perception Management: China uses information warfare and perception management strategies to influence public opinion and shape narratives related to its activities in the South China Sea. This includes using media, social media, and official statements to portray its actions in a positive light. https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/politics/paper/1575321
https://hk.epochtimes.com/news/2022-12-21/30444815

#### Enhancing military equipments and economic alliances

- Naval Modernization: China has been investing heavily in modernizing its naval capabilities, including the construction of advanced warships, submarines, and aircraft carriers. This modernization enhances China's ability to control and secure its maritime interests, including in the South China Sea.

- Air Defense and Anti-Ship Systems: China has deployed advanced air defense systems and anti-ship missile batteries on its artificial islands and coastline in the South China Sea. These systems aim to deter or repel any foreign military activity near its claimed territories.

- Building Partnerships: China has built partnerships with neighboring countries through diplomatic initiatives, economic investments, and joint military exercises. This approach aims to foster cooperation while potentially diminishing the willingness of these countries to align with other powers.
[Why Africa Should Be Concerned With Increasing Tensions in the East and South China Sea](https://thediplomat.com/2021/11/why-africa-should-be-concerned-with-increasing-tensions-in-the-east-and-south-china-sea/)

#### gesture of di

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## brainstorming

- water + bottles
- sea water exchange?
- invisible strategies ?

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## draft

~~3. Bodily Intervention (of buying water): 30 mins
- pouring back the water bottle into a glass
- discussing the glass of water ownership
- bottles and contracts -> transferring water...
- physically take away
- distribution
- need: ==guiding questions==
- what's your relation with water?
- Do you see yourself owning or co-owning the water?
- What do you want to do with this 1 milliter of water?
- What's the price you are willing to buy in order to own one milliter of water?
- Do you think we might have a better collective agency if there are billions and miillions of water owners?
- Are there any other water/sea that you want to own? (meaning the bundle of rights allowing one to use, manage, and enjoy the "asset/property", including the right to convey it to the other...)
- have you thought of the sea is owned by someone else and you cannot access to the area?
- Do you know anything about the common law of the sea?
- what can we do if we collectively own the sea which has huge disputes?
- what would you allow and not allow others to do to the sea?
- do you agree no one should own the sea/ocean as it is considered to be "global commons"?
- how do we understand the border of the sea? ~~