“Taking Stock of the Anthropocene: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable with UCSB Scholars”
Roundtable featuring UCSB faculty and graduate students Peter Alagona (History and Environmental Studies), Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook (English and Comparative Literature), John Foran (Sociology), Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies), Jeff Hoelle (Anthropology), David Lea (Geology), and Christopher Walker (English). Thursday, May 28, 2015 / 4:00 PM, McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB.
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Set to “Fitzpleasure” by Alt-J, Stuart Gibson’s I Like to Fly captures Tasmanian locals and surfers interacting with their environment. Tasmania, an island off of the southern coast of Australia, is known for its avid environmentalism. A large portion of the island is dedicated to preservation of the natural landscape. Using drone technology, Gibson manages to film on tops of mountains and crests of waves, revealing a type of nature usually inaccessible to most. He follows the coastal region of Tasmania, and in doing so reveals the severity of it, and the ability of people adapt to their surroundings rather than changing it. (source).
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If you notice a massive, polygonal being sunning itself by the sea, you may have just stumbled upon DIVA, an 11.5-foot-tall paper sculpture hand-built by French artist Thomas Voillaume, a.k.a APACH. DIVA is made up of 853 triangles, constructed over four weeks of repetitive tracing, cutting, and assembly which APACH says put him in a trance-like state, opening, “les portes d’une autre dimension”— the door to another dimension — as the sculpture took shape. The giant humanoid looks like it could have wandered ashore from some other reality, while its two-part structure creates the illusion of it phasing right through the ground. (source).
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This beach house by Ruhl Walker Architects is raised above the landscape, helping it to have a minimal impact on the fragile coastal ecosystem. Encompassing 2,800 square feet (260 square metres), the House of Shifting Sands sits on a sloped waterfront site in the small Massachusetts town of Wellfleet, located in the hook-shaped peninsula known as Cape Cod. The home is surrounded by miles of undeveloped land and scrub pines. Ruhl Walker Architects was charged with creating a building that honoured environmental concerns expressed by the client, the town’s conservation commission and the US National Park Service. This prompted the team to plan a building that “appears to float out of and above its shifting, sandy site”. The house was designed to be provide all of its own energy. Power is supplied via solar panel arrays located on the roofs of the main house and studio. There are also high-efficiency air-to-air heat exchangers and energy-recovery ventilators. (source).
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Olafur Eliasson explores duration and the ever-changing environment of the city in his latest installation of The collectivity project. His participatory project brings over two tons of white Lego bricks to New York’s High Line in an effort to reimagine the cityscape. Starting with Lego brick structures of skyscrapers built by firms that include OMA New York and Renzo Piano, who built the newly opened Whitney Museum of American Art that now sits at the southern tip of the High Line, the installation invites the public to use the initial buildings as a point of departure to build and rebuild the structures in their own image, considering the spaces they live, work, and play. (source).
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Amsterdam-based design studio Studio Drift created In 20 Steps. With 40 glass tubes, the sculpture appears as an abstract flapping of wings, like an enormous bird of glass elegantly taking flight within the space. Last month, the installation debuted at the Venice Biennale as part of the Glasstress 2015 Gotika, a combined exposition from the Hermitage in Sint Petersburg and the Berengo Studio in Venice.
In a press release, Studio Drift-founders, Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordjin write, “Studio Drift is intrigued by the continuous attempts of humankind to deal with its limitations, so miraculously opposed to nature as these ventures might be. Humankind has always had the desire to fully understand nature and to detach itself from earthly ties. No matter how far science has come, some things are likely to remain forever out of reach.” (source).
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“Music of the Anthropocene”
John Luther Adams (composer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Become Ocean) to give IHC lecture. Thursday, June 4, 2015 / 4:00 PM, McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB.
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Film Screening, Princess Mononoke
Friday, May 29, 2015 / Noon, South Hall, 2635 (series info)
Inflicted with a deadly curse, a young warrior named Ashitaka sets out for the forests of the west in search of the cure that will save his life. Once there, he becomes inextricably entangled in a bitter battle that matches Lady Eboshi and a proud clan of humans against the forest’s animal gods, who are led by the brave Princess Mononoke, a young woman raised by wolves!
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“Taking Stock of the Anthropocene: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable with UCSB Scholars”
Roundtable featuring UCSB faculty and graduate students Peter Alagona (History and Environmental Studies), Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook (English and Comparative Literature), John Foran (Sociology), Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies), Jeff Hoelle (Anthropology), David Lea (Geology), and Christopher Walker (English). Thursday, May 28, 2015 / 4:00 PM, McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB.
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“Eden Falls, A LAUNCH PAD reading of a new play”
Reading of Eden Falls written by Brian Granger (Lecturer, Theater, Vanderbilt University) and directed by Risa Brainin (Theater and Dance, UCSB). Tuesday, May 26, 2015 / 5:00 PM, McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB.
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“Lithorature and Other Anthropocenic Mutations”
Jason Groves (German, Rutgers University) to give IHC lecture. Thursday, May 21, 2015 / 4:00 PM, McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB.
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