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

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The competitive art world may think of itself as a community, but it rewards personal expression, individual achievement, and wall-to-wall networking. Except for when you lose one of the horns that took over twenty hours to make and make a two-hour U-turn.

This embrace of not knowing and commitment to namelessness was described by disabled sound artist and geographer of ecocide AM Kanngieser as a “dismantling of knowledge as possession. In my notes I had written, “My grief and longing for this act leads small punctures of pain and sorrow to move through me, the surface of my eyes now damp. I’ve come here to offer my gratitude to this water for how ki sutured within me the cataclysmic rift between earth and flesh taught to me by aspects of my Russian American cultural lineage. 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.Stephan's work is based on 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. This Dream Puppet journey to the Yaak Valley began a multi-year creative environmental project in eastern forests, Soils and Spirit. This line pretends to be a protector, claiming to mitigate the risk of a community being set ablaze, but this line instead facilitates preparation for extraction, the looming timber sale awaiting the final bureaucratic nod of approval. Though humanity caused the sickness, some say through excess consumption, humanity is composed of billions of individuals. While it might push the animism angle a bit too hard for some tastes (and I'm sure more than a few people will be put off by the book's constant poetic reference to the earth/gaia as "She"), overall it was really just a benign exploration of the Gaia Theory (which I hadn't realised is so controversial), starting with the history of how the theory was developed, and then looking at all the various networks that the earth uses to regulate itself.

This wonderful book would’ve got four stars but for its one omission which would have been to include veganism as part of a Gaian harmony. A brave book which may upset people from both sides of the divide he seeks to bridge - which makes it all the more essential reading for those seeking to respond to the challenges of our times. His monastic training, however, had carved away his ego-driven self, so he chose to begin his artistic work with homeless men in a homeless shelter, where he could function with humility and true social immersion. We also use them to help detect unauthorized access or activity that violate our terms of service, as well as to analyze site traffic and performance for our own site improvement efforts.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. Within that paradigm, questions of ‘right action’ and ethical behaviour flounder against a backdrop of silence. Since I was small, I liked to think that everything has its soul and its place in the world, not only moving beings like human, animals but also plants, rocks, soil. Forse la massima più fondamentale della saggezza gaiana è il fatto che noi uomini siamo totalmente responsabili di fronte al nostro pianeta".

Learn how the field of science is finally recognising the Earth as one complex, life-sustaining system. A fear that we had installed a large artwork on top of brutalized land for the sake of some compelling photographs without the land’s consent gripped me. The Gaia Theory, first proposed as a hypothesis by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in the early 1970s, states that the Earth’s biosphere and upper crust acts in such a way as to create and maintain an environment for the propagation of life. When I asked the eight-hundred-year-old larch if I could place the puppet in front of ki, at first, I did not feel consent. Our embodiments and lives are as foundational, and as encroached, as the remaining gasping wild places.Some ideas were good, interconnectedness, personal involvement and reconnection to nature / Gaia, but overall? In one of the interviews, performance artist Marina Abramovic describes how, in ‘Nightsea Crossing-Conjunction’ she and her artistic collaborator, Ulay, invited a Tibetan lama and an Aboriginal medicine man to sit around a table, motionless, looking at each other for four days, four hours each day.

In that moment I grasp why my senses have been colliding with the screeching contradictions of this place.In this sense, the book is a contemporary attempt to rediscover anima mundi (the soul of the world) through Gaian science, whilst assuming no prior knowledge of science. These are my heartbeat-funnies, who always remind me of the clashing contradiction and gift that is my life. Ideally, the right practice of art should produce as many saints as the practice of spirituality,” he says, in what may be my favourite unauthorised comment in the book, because of its explosive velocity against the cultural grain. Based on James Lovelock's Gaia theory, Harding argues for a new perspective and relationship with the earth. The film also features commentary from Brian Goodwin, Iain McGilchrist, Fritjof Capra, Vandana Shiva, Jules Cashford and Satish Kumar.