A BODY IN THE FORM OF A PLANET: GAIA & PHILOSOPHY
UNSOUND FESTIVAL, Krakow
Friday 6 October 2023, 4.15pm
Saturday 7 October 2023, 1pm
Discussion and performance by Susanna Davies-Crook, Sarah Shin and Lyra Pramuk
Above: Promotional poster for UNSOUND Festival 2023
At Unsound 2023, Ignota presents three journeys as a planet in the form of a body, a body in the form of a planet. These journeys take the forms of sonic choreographies, games and enquiries to explore the boundary between the internal and external. Traversing this world-skin – coming together and coming apart – they challenge the illusion of separation between individuation and collaboration, self and other.
A BODY IN THE FORM OF A PLANET: GAIA & PHILOSOPHY, PRESENTED WITH IGNOTA
Friday 6 October 2023, 4.15pm
Gaia theory, developed by Lynn Margulis and James Lovelock, describes a living Earth – a body in the form of a planet: a self-regulating complex system in which life interacts with and eventually becomes its own environment. In this discussion, Susanna Davies-Crook, Lyra Pramuk and Sarah Shin draw inspiration from Ignota’s recent publication Gaia and Philosophy by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan to explore the influence of interdisciplinary biologist Margulis’ life and work. How can Gaian ideas guide contemporary approaches to understanding relationships between various species and planetary bodies? How might the concept of a world-skin – formed in part of the cell structures Margulis studied – imaginatively extend the Gaian paradigm? This discussion will be followed by a meditative and journeying event on Saturday.
A BODY IN THE FORM OF A PLANET 2: GAIAN WORLDS, PRESENTED WITH IGNOTA
Saturday 7 October 2023, 1pm
Ignota’s Susanna Davies-Crook and Sarah Shin are joined by Lyra Pramuk to present three journeys as a planet in the form of a body, a body in the form of a planet. Inspired by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan’s essay Gaia and Philosophy (Ignota, 2023), these journeys take the form of sonic choreographies, games and enquiries to explore boundaries between internal and external ecologies. Traversing this world-skin – coming together and coming apart – they challenge the illusion of a separation between individuation and collaboration, self and other. This meditative event follows an earlier panel discussion as part of Ignota’s Gaia Season: A Body in the Form of a Planet.
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