Postnature’s ‘Environmental Performance II’ on Big Screen

My video artwork, “Environmental Performance II: Waiting for the Bunny,” had the honor of being screened at ArtSpace Fyn/Kunstrum Fyn during the Open Video XVI event in October 2023.

Filmed in the nature-culture woods in Denmark, the video mediates emergent happenings in the comings and goings of ants, birds, wind, trees, sun, shade and clouds. These non-human actors dynamically move on, across and behind semi-translucent, semi-opaque surfaces; infinity mirror-glass plates alternating as mediator and intermediary.

“Environmental Performance” is a continuation of my inquiry into how we as human beings understand and relate to our fellow co-species and surroundings. The work provides an opportunity to think about our relationship to what we previously have known as nature – to what I suggest we call ‘postnature’ and ‘postnatural environments’.

I use the terms ‘postnatural environment’ and ‘postnature’ to talk about settings where the line between human-made and what was once considered ‘natural’ has become blurred or erased due to extensive human impact.

Read more here: Postnatural Environments

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