Sensus Communis – Anti-Atlantis

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Natalia Evelyn Bencicova (Diploma Project)
Betreuer*in: Gabriele Rothemann

Sensus Communis uses virtual environment, sound, touch, and smell to create embodiment inside of the thematic narrative Anti-Atlantis. If Atlantis is a story of an ancient culture destroyed by nature, then Anti-Atlantis represents its opposite – present or future landscape destroyed by human culture of excess. The organic form represents the vision of utopian paradise as we remember it – even though this memory might exist only as a constructed fantasy. The scene reveals the effect of „progress“; appropriation of nature as resources for industrial production with alarming pollution levels. Anthropocene leads to paradise lost, a catastrophe scenario that, if we ignore warning signs, gradually consumes everything. Anti-Atlantis calls for moment of awakening. In time travel between past and future, it brings attention to our present behaviour, its consequences, and impulse for change.

(c) Natalia Evelyn Bencicova

(c) Natalia Evelyn Bencicova