Serpents, Tsunami Boulders and Lightning

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aut.relation.journalSwamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ)
aut.relation.volume8
dc.contributor.authorRanderson, Janine
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-06T02:23:43Z
dc.date.available2023-09-06T02:23:43Z
dc.date.issued2022-10-02
dc.description.abstractMore-than-human cosmologies, as expressed in contemporary art practice, present a plane for sensing and feeling the extent of the ecological strain on our planet. The relationship between geos, biota and Anthropos is untenable; we are divided by forced climate displacements for humans and the rapid mass extinction for a plethora of flora and fauna. From the intensifying tropical cyclones in Te Moana-Nui-A-Kiwa, the Pacific Ocean in 2019–2020, to the swathes of violently destructive wildfires in Australia and California sparked on occasion by dry lightning and fanned by strong winds, we no longer need scientific projections to hear and feel the shattering signs of climate change. Even the bastions of contemporary art can’t escape the convergence of weather gone awry as art objects and more-than-human waters meet. Venice, where I visited the Japanese Pavilion described in this paper, was later swamped by a deluge of lagoon water during the 58th Art Biennale in 2019. To radically shift our dealings with “others” is an urgent demand from the biota to weather systems, displaced humans and the more-than-human, at a planetary, as well as a situated scale.
 Keywords: more-than-human cosmologies, contemporary art, tsunami, experimental film, Len Lye, Venice Biennale, Te Moana-Nui-A-Kiwa, weather, planetary energies, Gayatri Spivak
dc.identifier.citationSwamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ), ISSN: 2652-2411 (Print); 2652-2411 (Online), Association for the Study of Literature, Environment & Culture Australia & New Zealand, 8. doi: 10.60162/swamphen.8.16687
dc.identifier.doi10.60162/swamphen.8.16687
dc.identifier.issn2652-2411
dc.identifier.issn2652-2411
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/16657
dc.publisherAssociation for the Study of Literature, Environment & Culture Australia & New Zealand
dc.relation.urihttps://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/Swamphen/article/view/16687
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.subject47 Language, Communication and Culture
dc.subject4705 Literary Studies
dc.subject13 Climate Action
dc.subject4705 Literary studies
dc.titleSerpents, Tsunami Boulders and Lightning
dc.typeJournal Article
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