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Hornblow, M and Attiwill, S and Norrie, H and Serrano, A and Parker, E and Weinstein, BM, alchemical probes, Intervening in the Anthropo[S]cene A PSi Performance+Design Working Group Event program, 28 June - 03 July, Maria Island, Tasmania, pp. 10. (In Press) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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Abstract
I’m interested in posing questions for the body through affective encounters
in landscape, using experiential drawing and embodied movement. In butoh,
Tatsumi Hijikata suggests that expressions of the body may be ‘drawn in’ and
absorbent, having a surface like charcoal; while Brian Massumi talks about
affect as a kind of ‘contraction’. I want to explore how affective interiority may
be thought and felt as being co-extensive with landscape trauma, as a scene
of encounter for intervening in the Anthropocene. Tasmania has a unique case
for the impact of climate change, with recent fires ravaging 11,000 hectares of
forest, set off by an increase in lightening strikes and often carried underground
by peat. For me, a strange dismay came with noting the shared duration of
this event as it unfolded, like a loved one passing away without being at the
deathbed. Like an Anthropo(s)cenic event, it performed the affective dimension
of what Timothy Morten might call a hyper-object: complex phenomena
beyond our comprehension that are nonetheless felt in distributed causation.
I’m interested in working with peat and charcoal as sensate materials, creating
affective scenes for intervening bodies and landscapes. How can we think about
landscape trauma in ways that recognize
our culpability as humans, while
drawing the metaphors of our deathbed
as another anthropomorphism of the
event? If affect is a reciprocal field of
forces, how does landscape make its
mark upon us, as much as the other way
around, and what might occur within or
outside this relation?
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Anthropocene, climate change, site-specific performance, Maria Island |
| Research Division: | Creative Arts and Writing |
| Research Group: | Performing arts |
| Research Field: | Performing arts not elsewhere classified |
| Objective Division: | Environmental Policy, Climate Change and Natural Hazards |
| Objective Group: | Understanding climate change |
| Objective Field: | Understanding climate change not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Hornblow, M (Dr Michael Hornblow) |
| UTAS Author: | Norrie, H (Dr Helen Norrie) |
| UTAS Author: | Weinstein, BM (Ms Beth Weinstein) |
| ID Code: | 114036 |
| Year Published: | In Press |
| Deposited By: | Architecture and Design |
| Deposited On: | 2017-02-02 |
| Last Modified: | 2020-03-25 |
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