Abstract
What does it mean to live enfolded by deep time when humans have become a new geologic agent? Given that poiesis is to make, transform, or bring forth, how can we reimagine our geologic future? Where is beauty to be found amidst the terror of biodiversity loss and climate change and how can we create a sublime poetics of kin-making through uniting scientific and artistic methodologies? Thinking across scales is “perhaps crucial requirement of an aesthetic response to the Anthropocene” (Farrier, 2019, p.20). This presentation considers communicating large-scale environmental crisis through sound, poetry and performance. We analyse an original creative work by the authors, a soundscape that combines climate change and biodiversity loss data with text adapted from David Farrier’s Anthropocene Poetics (2023), original narrative and place-based sound recordings. The work invites audiences to reconfigure our relations with time, space and existence in the Anthropocene. The work is a collaboration between the University of New South Wales’ Faculty of the Built Environment and Murdoch University’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences. It explores imaginative approaches to communicating ecological crises and hopeful futures and invites further consideration of art's role in communicating environmental data.
