Anthropocene Trilogy asks how to render biosphere from within conjoint catastrophe, another species in pandemic’s wake. Transposing verbal-visual flux into sonic modalities, three scored video-poéme pieces “phrase and rephrase” lamentation for nature and the environment, keening from within the “trap” of our earthly Sea of Crises.
1. Mare Crisium:
Equivocation voiced in respect of the natural world is set against the ominous consequences of our actions of displacement, disruption, and depredation occasioned within it.
2. Forest Aflame:
A minimalist hybrid "visual / sound poem" montage concerning the implications of the problematic & dysfunctional relationship between humanity and nature.
3. Of Nature:
A stark rendition of the disregarded detrimental human and environmental distress occasioned through imposed natural resource exploitation.
The project is part of the subthemes Climate Crisis and Poetry.
Author
Elin Johnston
Elin Johnston is a Visual Artist living in Belfast. Her practice is inter-disciplinary in basis, with digital process at its core, including Video Poetry and Experimental Moving Image, 2D Digital Imaging, and 3D Sculptural Assemblage.
Her work has been screened nationally and internationally, including digital arts and film festivals in Berlin, Copenhagen, Athens, Porto, Barcelona, Madrid, Dublin, Sweden, the UK, and the USA.
She has received awards from FICIMAD 2021(Madrid), Berlin Flash Film Festival 2021, Oregon Documentary Film Festival 2021 (Portland), and White Deer International Film Festival 2021 (Notts.), and has had work accepted by The Honest Ulsterman, Cyphers, and Époque Press.
Johnston’s work is held in the collections of the Arts Council NI, The Poetic Phonotheque Copenhagen, and Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council NI.
She was formerly a London/Bristol based Creative Director, with projects implemented worldwide, and also lectured at a number of Art & Design Faculties in England and Wales.
www.elinjohnston.com
