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Pocket 3: Fertile Cosmos

Did we grow as planned?

Avons-nous grandi comme prévu ?

They cannot believe their luck.

“The cosmos may be fertile: placesastral bodies, including planets, may be seeded with life, some of them becoming in essence extraterrestrial Gaias” (Dorion Sagan Dorian Sagan, “Gaia versus the Anthropocene: Untimely Throughts on the Current Eco-Catastrophe“, Ecocene 1.1, 2020, pp. 137-146. Shared by Environment and Society portal. )

Amélie Bouvier, But Keep Your Feet On the Ground #3 (2015). Stills from HD video, 3 min video © Amélie Bouvier & Harlan Levey Projects. Amelie Bouvier, But Keep Your Feet on the Ground, 2014-2016.

A vexed Curcuma alismatifolia mutters

“bodiesI literally have NO SEX LIFE. I’m infertile… My offspring are just clones.” (PSX consultancy Pei-Ying Lin, Dimitris Stamatis, Jasmina Weiss Špela Petrič, The Plant Sex Consultancy: Giving Small Pleasures to the Planted, 2014-ongoing. )

Pei-Ying Lin, Dimitris Stamatis, Jasmina Weiss Špela Petrič (Plant Sex Consultancy), Mutation ritual for Curcuma (2014). Copyright and courtesy of the artists.

Planet Earth is pure potential, circling a giant star.

“perceptionsL'atome est source de connaissances transformatrices de notre compréhension du monde… Dans sa version transformée en énergie puissante, mais peu fiable, l’atome est le premier agent potentiel de notre destruction.” (Manuela de Barros Manuela de Barros, Cycle de conférences “Sciences & Fictions“, Université Paris 8, d’octobre 2017 à mars 2023. Retransmis et en partie archivé par la radio P-node. )

A geomagnetic storm passes, until the next solar flare.

Reading material

Dorian Sagan, “Gaia versus the Anthropocene: Untimely Throughts on the Current Eco-Catastrophe”, Ecocene 1.1, 2020, pp. 137-146. Shared by Environment and Society portal.

SIANA: Vers de nouveaux imaginaires (Laboratoire Artistique du Sud Francilien).

Pei-Ying Lin, Dimitris Stamatis, Jasmina Weiss Špela Petrič, The Plant Sex Consultancy: Giving Small Pleasures to the Planted, 2014-ongoing.

Amelie Bouvier, But Keep Your Feet on the Ground, 2014-2016.

Manuela de Barros, Cycle de conférences “Sciences & Fictions”, Université Paris 8, d’octobre 2017 à mars 2023. Retransmis et en partie archivé par la radio P-node.

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