INFINITY IN EMERGENCY
A vision of the future of the planet
Description
The current geological epoch is defined as the Anthropocene. The term Anthropocene was coined, at the beginning of the new millennium, in the field of Earth Sciences, to indicate a geological phase in which, once the Holocene ended, the subsequent period due to the absolute prevalence of Man as the formative agent of the dynamics of transformation of the Earth) characterizes an era in which human activities have a significant and deleterious impact on the bio-geo-chemical cycles of the Earth. The word “crisis” describes this new era, linked to the State, institutions, justice and the healthcare system. For this reason, ours is an era of continuous emergencies which, as such, seem to escape our control. The thesis project entitled “Infinity in emergency” tells a vision of the future dominated by the impact of accumulations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
The garment presents itself as a wearable sculpture, and features overflowing elements, repeated endlessly, which explode from the surface evoking chaotic and disorienting shapes and motifs, which disturb the beauty and fragility of nature, highlighting how human intervention is altering geophysical balances. Global warming can be seen as a never-ending challenge, a problem that seems never-ending if not adequately addressed. The elements of the work invade the space to create an immersive experience, metaphorically representing how the accumulation of CO2 and other greenhouse gases fill and alter the Earth’s atmosphere, creating an enveloping effect on our planet, causing a sense of disorientation which generates anxiety, the same psychological reaction that the installation can arouse in those who observe it for the first time.
The project aims to demonstrate how art and design can describe the complexities of our world. In order for the planet to improve and for the concept of ecologism to still have meaning, it must be deprived of its anthropocentric matrix, which absolutizes nature as a metaphysical “elsewhere” to be preserved, making man part of the same system belonging to the nature it intends to defend. To recognize human responsibility in global environmental transformations in this new era, there is a need to overcome the extractive and destructive logic of capitalism, dominated by the culture of disposable income.
This requires active and personal involvement from all of us in order to deal with this emergency.
