Sensing the Future in the Anthropocene: Multisensory Artworks and Climate Change

• Authors: Agata Stronciwilk

Title variants

PL

Odczuwanie przyszłości w antropocenie. Wielozmysłowe dzieła sztuki wobec zmian klimatu

Abstracts

PL

Autorka analizuje prace Dagny Jakubowskiej, Diany Lelonek i Petera de Cupere w kontekście percepcji zmysłowej i zaangażowania w aktualne problemy środowiska. Analizowane projekty proponują różne spekulatywne narracje, a wykorzystanie odmiennych bodźców zmysłowych umożliwia widzom doświadczać tych narracji w sposób ucieleśniony. Artyści zachęcają do wsłuchania się w topniejące lodowce, spróbowania potraw z apokaliptycznej przyszłości czy wdychania zanieczyszczonego powietrza, by urzeczywistnić wizję zmian klimatu, która dla niektórych wciąż pozostaje abstrakcyjną koncepcją, a nie trwającą rzeczywistością. Empiryczne doznania zmysłowe stają się argumentami w dyskusji o antropogenicznym źródle zmian klimatycznych. Autorka analizuje rolę zmysłów i sztuki w przełamywaniu dystansu pomiędzy dowodami naukowymi, a codziennymi doświadczeniami dotyczącymi zmian klimatu.

EN

The article analyzes artworks by Dagna Jakubowska, Diana Lelonek, and Peter de Cupere in the context of sensory perception and environmental engagement. The analyzed projects propose various speculative narratives and sensory stimuli that allow the audience to have an embodied experience of those narratives. Artists encourage us to listen to the melting glaciers, taste the dishes of the apocalyptic future or smell the polluted air in order to materialize the vision of climate change, which for some still remains an abstract concept rather than an ongoing reality. The empirical sensory experiences become arguments in the discussions about the anthropogenic roots of climate change. The article examines the role of senses and art in breaching the gap between scientific evidence and everyday experience regarding climate change.

Keywords

EN

art; senses; Dagna Jakubowska; Peter de Cupere; Diana Lelonek

PL

sztuka; zmysły; Dagna Jakubowska; Peter de Cupere; Diana Lelonek

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL
• Journal: Roczniki Kulturoznawcze
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 89-106

Dates

published

2024

Contributors

author

Agata Stronciwilk

• University of Silesia in Katowice

• https://orcid.org/0000000281233839

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18290/rkult24151.5

Biblioteka Nauki

31233960