Live Stage: Sense of Planet [
Sydney]

[Oyvind Fahlstrom’s World Maps, Aurel Scheibler] Sense of Planet: The Arts and Ecology at Earth Magnitude – A NIEA Symposium :: August 25, 2012; 9:30 am – 6:30 pm :: UNSW CBD Campus, Level 6 (Combined Theatres T1 & 2), 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney, NSW 2000.
The acceleration of climate change, species extinction, and other ecological crises, enjoins us to find ways of grasping historical and evolving circumstances at earth magnitude. The Sense of Planet symposium concentrates together an international array of artists, eco-theorists and scholars to address the issues and activities of representing the earth in its entirety, and of representing and self-representing regions or localities amid the complex global systems in which they are enmeshed. Continue reading