Mediating the Ecological Imperative

SNSF Sinergia 2021 – 2024

Ben Rivers, Urth (UK 2017) and Now, at Last! (UK 2022).

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The last woman on Earth. Filmed inside Biosphere 2 in Arizona, Urth forms a cinematic meditation on ambitious experiments, constructed environments, and visions of the future. Writer Mark von Schlegell contributes a text-read as the final log instalments of a woman sealed inside an unforgiving environment. The film considers what an endeavor such as Biosphere 2 might mean today and in the near future, in terms of human kind’s relationship with the natural world.

Further reading:

Sculpting in Time: Ben Rivers on Ghost Strata and Now, at Last!, Interview.

Artist

Location

Date

These Artist Encounters have been made possible thanks to the support of the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation.

All

Gardening

Drought

Climate change

Carbon Footprint

Digitalization

Art History

Responsability

Anthropocene

Human

Supererogation

Duty

Sustainability

Textile

Art

Repair

Second Hand

Commodity

Capitalocene

Extinction

Climate Change

Sculpture

Animal

Peru

Nature

Venezuala

Flora and Fauna

Community

Indigenous

Nahua

El Salvador

Anthropology

Object

Mexico

Empathy

Wáxarika

cacao

cooperation

cooperative strategies

water defense;

Metlapanapa River

socio-environmental activism

potentiality

transgender

body

Guatemala

Territory

Voices is our public outreach format. In collecting short statements and responses from all society, we want to include otherwise unheard voices and foster a broader dialogue on the ecological imperative. We also want to relate our own conception to perspectives from outside academia. The format of Voices relies on Hito Steyerl's concept the poor image, which emphasizes the potential of easily accessible, low resolution footage brought to common use.

This interactive platform has been made possible thanks to the support of the Anniversary Foundation of La Mobilière Cooperative.