Call for papers
From Mother Earth to Child Earth perception of our Planet
How our new sensitivitty to the climatic change and all this extensive Earth monitoring from outside Space is slightly affecting our inner representation of the Planet?
- Name: Philippe BOISSONNET
- Country: Canada
- E-mail: philippe.boissonnet@uqtr.ca
- University: Université du Québec Trois-Rivières
As an introduction: how this move in this representation of Earth has influenced my artistic creation in the last decade ? First of all, I will introduce images of 2 majors artworks that I created in holography/light installation ("The Awareness of Limita: Gaia and Galileo", 1993). I will discuss how it lead me to shape a poetic awareness about our urgent need to construct a new collective counciousness of the Earth and its evolution. A counciousness which would have to go through tereestrial representation of a fragile, delicate and unstable Globe. Something to be protected as an entity being part of us, as for a child being inside a mother belly, and no more as being the Mother of everthing (the archaic Gaia). Protected or controlled ? Strangly, all this new perception is bringing a new change: a change of attitude in the philosophical point of view that we are used to develop in our relationship to the terrestrial Globe. A point of view from inside. Not a geo!
physical inside, but an inner understanding of the Earth connected to our own body and mind. Knowing the Planet through the eyes of satellites and sensors (so, from outside), attracts the Earth within an individual counciousness of a "We". Thus, I am now working on the metaphorical idea of "Peaux-Mondes" in large scale digital photography and other media.
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