Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia: 1 (Berlin Technologie Hub Eco pack)

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I would try to hold the awareness that the understory beneath me holds a millennium of death, rot, and renewal. Based on James Lovelock's Gaia theory, Harding argues for a new perspective and relationship with the earth. His work is based on a careful integration of rational scientific analysis with our intuition, sensing and feeling-a vitally important task at this time of severe ecological and climate crisis.

He replaces the cold, objectifying language of science with a way of speaking of our planet as a sentient, living being rather than as a dead, inert mechanism. With no energy for confusion or defenses, I released my bodymind to trust this path, becoming soft and permeable to sensory observations. This film would be a good supplement for collections in history of science or environmental ethics and philosophy. To hold this awareness felt like attempting to hold a greased rubber chicken: a state of constant slippage. Be stunned at how many people come, their generosity and openness blooming the work open, even as a blaring August heat wave arrives in New York City during a pandemic.We need to retrace our steps to that point and to appreciate Gaia as a person, one that it is our present responsibility to care for. How it allowed me to release the biomedical name that claimed a totality of knowledge about my embodiment.

He texted me: “I dreamed of fairytale light spilling through the canopy, illuminating the puppet and allowing the forest to recede into shadow and hug the puppet. Her work has been presented and supported by DukeArts, Carolina Performing Arts, Penn State University, Georgetown University, La MaMa, Dixon Place, amongst many others. Building on the revolutionary discoveries of James Lovelock's Gaia Theory, Stephan goes one step further and explores opportunities to heal our relationship with the Earth through the new discipline of holistic science.What is asked of those of us within whom hierarchies of worth, eradication, and dispossession are folded into the foundations of our imaginations and knowledge systems—medical, scientific, legal, ethical, and beyond? Some of the art shown in the illustrations is not well explained in the text, and remains almost incomprehensible without prior knowledge of the artist’s work, and several of the essays are more like inspired stabs in the dark than assessments of a coherent paradigm with real synthesising reach. The competitive art world may think of itself as a community, but it rewards personal expression, individual achievement, and wall-to-wall networking.