The Disconnect: 21st Century Flintstones

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Like many futuristic projections of human society, technology is venerated as the quintessential driving force of our continued prosperity, even salvation. This research has examined how individuals respond to climate change [social, political and environmental], when exposed to a “scales of magnitude” experience. Impacts from the local to the global are made clear. The Disconnect: 21st Century Flintstones takes from its comic namesake “the modern stone-age family” and observes cultural inversions of our present day in “the stone-age modern family”: which is arguably technologically advantaged yet psychologically subjugated to its every consequence. This body of work highlights a psychophysical distancing referred to as The Disconnect, between what we see and what we experience within the context of the whim of our own behaviours and the convenience objects with which we surround ourselves. The enquiry therefore asks: - How do we perceive and react to climate science? How does the enigma of daily life sit with this? - What would looking back from a future without fossil fuel dependence tell us? How and why might great attitudinal changes have occurred? - Could an eco-re/evolution result-in desirable perceptual and behavioural shifts in human activity? And what role can artists and their work play in this? In this view artworks become the flint stones that encourage a personal engagement with the Carbon debate and climate science data through a heightened awareness and critical review of the physical and non-physical places we inhabit and our simultaneous disconnection and connection with them.
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Byrne, Alexandra
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Howard, Ian
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2016
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