Lecture Performance »How to Petrify the World in One Hundred and Twenty Four Acts«

For the opening of this year's edition of "100 New Words for Weather", artist and researcher Joana Moll's lecture performance deals with the concretization of the earth and its effects on the climate. As we continue to build on the world, we are losing the ability to react appropriately to this development. A form of collective amnesia - known as Shifting Baseline Syndrome (SBS) - calls into question any initiative to restore our relationship with nature. Any attempt to liberate the world from the masses of human construction requires a radical restoration of the interconnections between history, language, culture and climate.

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For the opening of this year's edition of "100 New Words for Weather", artist and researcher Joana Moll explores the petrification of the earth and its effects on the climate in her lecture performance. We are turning the world into stone, and with it, lose the capability to respond coherently to this development. A form of collective amnesia - named the Shifting Baseline Syndrome (SBS) - is challenging any initiative of restoring our relationship with nature. Thus, any attempt to de-petrify the world demands a radical reenactment of the entanglements between history, language, culture, and climate.