‘Mind Field’ threads the needle between the conspiratorial and the real, existing at the murky edge of the knowable and calling into question the causes and effects of conspiratorial views surrounding the Anti- 5G movement. The edge here is the impossibility of knowing how our health will be impacted by EMF radiation and consequentially the need for individual speculation and inquiry. In particular, this project begins in Mulumbimby, Australia under the Morsion government in 2019 during the first emergence of the 5G towers. The lack of apparent and available data which had been overshadowed by the economic drive for fast internet was a catalyst for the uprise of the Anti-5G movement in Australia and manifested into a series of peaceful protests. Here, local communities were driven to take action and individual agency against the governmental institution. Strong parallels and inspiration began to emerge from the work and conceptual underpinnings of Archigram and Buckminster Fuller. In particular, this notion that urban centres could adjust to the changing needs and climates of its inhabitants. Both architecture collectives turn to extreme alternatives which diverge from modern architecture as a form of protest and rejection of modernity through effectively interweaving political questioning into the aesthetic. Thus, the second part of this project is situated within the epicentre of high speed internet and 5G in present day New York City. The modular and stackable dome structure is positioned in front of City Hall, occupying space demanding attention from an individual collective taking agency against the governmental institution. Thus, ‘Mind field’ explores the intersections of the conspiratorial and the real through casting a moralizing gaze onto belief.
