Douglas Kahn: 'Earthstar as Understood through an Electrical Storm in the Blue Mountains'
Thursday 26 February
11:10 - 11:50
Paradiso, Main Hall
Douglas Kahn
The work Earthstar by David Haines and Joyce Hinterding is an exploration of electromagnetic and vibrational energy. Douglas Kahn’s talk will approach the work by refracting it through electrical storms in the Blue Mountains near Sydney. Earthstar’s objects and images invoke frequencies in sensory, physical and biophysical registers. It is tuned through hydrogen to a single wavelength of the Sun, through copper to terrestrial radio influenced by solar winds, and through a vibratory theory of aroma to a memory theatre of ozone. Earthstar proposes that when one ventures out into the elements there are three weathers – solar, space and terrestrial.
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Part of
Session 1: Earth Magnitude
Thursday 26 February
10:30 - 12:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
Timothy Morton & Douglas Kahn & Mark Williams
In the first panel we consider some of the consequences of the thesis of the Anthropocene, and what it means to imagine events on a geologic scale.