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A micro-zine for Tom Sachs' shoburo as used in a Space Program and a Tea Ceremony.

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“4. Let water cool, discuss life”
“Clear your mind of questions.”

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Shoburo First use of Portable Brazier in the year (May)

Pentagram potrest handle kettle bamboo tea scoop level whisk powder fire pez fuel bowl

Teahouse / Launch Shack

stove sand bags gas spring telescope shoji screen hearth alcove guest entrance Host’s entrance Tobi ishi 9.5 Tatami

Dr Robert Goddard 1882-1945 Roswell, New Mexico 1931

Solar Wind Spectrometer

(a.k.a. Medium Energy Solar Wind Experiment)

  • Ancronym: SWS (SWE)
  • PI/Engineer: Conway W. Synder, Jet Propulsion Lab
  • Other Contacts: Douglas R. Clay & Marcia Neugebauer, JPL
  • Apollo Flight Nos.: 12, 15
  • Apollo Exp’t No.: S 035
  • Discipline: Solar wind, Solar physics, Earth Sciences - magnetosphere
  • Weight: 5.3 kg
  • Dimensions: 27.9 x 22.9 x 10.2 cm, stowed (35.6 x 22.9 x 43.2cm, deployed)
  • Manufacturer: JPL/Electro-Optical Systems Pasadena, CA (Bendix - Integration into ALSEP)
  • Description/Purpose: The sensor in the SWS is a Faraday cup that measures the charged-particle flux entering the cup. An arry of 7 cups was used to compare the solar wind properties at the lunar surface with those measured in space near the moon.

The SWS as deployed on Apollo 12.

Tea Ceremony Appendix I

  1. Prepare Surface
  2. Light brazier, boil water
  3. Filter tea into cup
  4. Let water cool, discuss life
  5. Pour water
  6. Whisk
  7. Accept tea, bow
  8. Turn bowl 180° C.W.
  9. Drink
  10. Admire bowl
  11. Bow
  12. Return bowl

Clear your mind of questions.

Thank you SARAH HOOVER TRISTAN DUKE PIERRE & KEIKO SERNET URASENKE CHANOYU CENTER TRACEY RYANS SENO TANAKA SENDO TANAKA SEN NO RIKYU ALEX CHOHLAS-WOOD GORDON MILLSAPS CHRIS BEESTON NICK DOYLE PAT MCCARTHY EVAN MURPHY SAM RATANARAT MARY EANNARINO OKSANA TODOROVA JASON KOTARA SARAH VASIL JEFF LURIE JARED VANDEUSEN IRIS JAFFE PERRY LEWIS BEN GULLARD VAN NEISTAT JOSH WHITE DOMENICA DUNLAP DAVID LEIBER JOSH RECHNITZ GENEVIEVE HANSON PHOEBE D’HEURLE ELSA HANSEN CREATIVE TIME PARK AVENUE ARMORY SPERONE-WESTWATER GAGOSIAN GALLERY ISBN 978-0-9828372-9-0

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