Anthropocene art is fundamentally a creation driven by the idea of renewal. What does it mean to “renew”? It's about rebuilding links, because they've been distended or broken. It's to “connect”, a term referring back to that of “religion” (from the Latin religare), a disposition conveyed by faith in something. Faith, on this occasion, in a new contract, the Social Contract of the 21st century, the Socio-Ecological Contract.
In order to establish this contract, and in addition to faith, several other ingredients are needed: voluntarism, energy, a proven optimism for the idea that a future is possible and that it will no longer be that of the contaminated world, and finally, narratives, a fabula, a “storytelling”, as we would say today - a sum of “narratives” that persuasively, stylishly and sensitively support the idea of a world to come that will be redeemed, repaired and reinscribed in a virtuous trajectory.
This conference will attempt to define the nature of the “narrative” specific to the positive Anthropocene culture that seeks renewal in creative fields such as dance, theater, music, film and comics. We're talking about close contact, gentle sensuality, slower gestures, returning nature to its own music, rebalanced human-non-human relationships... All within the framework of an ecoculture in search of pacification, where the aim is, to quote green activist and documentary filmmaker Cyril Dion, “to replace the current dominant, materialistic and consumerist narrative”.
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