A new show at London\u2019s Barbican Centre takes us inside a tree and under the earth to encourage us to marvel at the biosphere and rethink our place within it. \u2018Our Time On Earth\u2019 urges us to demote ourselves from the top of the species hierarchy and consider how what...
‘Our Time On Earth’ show at the Barbican in London imagines a future when humans and nature are in syncA new show at London’s Barbican Centre takes us inside a tree and under the earth to encourage us to marvel at the biosphere and rethink our place within it. ‘Our Time On Earth’ urges us to demote ourselves from the top of the species hierarchy and consider how what we design could be attuned to the needs of all beings, not just our own.
Part of the problem with the capitalist system, the show suggests, is that viewing land as ‘property’ asserts our dominance over nature, making it ours to exploit. But ‘the land has a voice’, declares a textile banner in an installation by Indigenous-led collectives Choose Earth and Selvagem. Elsewhere, design studio Superflux‘s artwork– imagines a rebalance, giving all living things nourishment in a multi-species banquet.
The result is a series of architectural models, accompanied by videos in which the collaborators discuss the challenges. One draws on the living root bridges by the Khasis community in the Indian state of Meghalaya, made from the aerial roots of rubber fig trees, which the community trains to grow across rivers over many years.
One film feels out of step in an exhibition that asks us to reconnect with nature. Liam Young’s fictionalproposes we should all live in one giant, sustainable metropolis and let the rest of the world rewild. With its dystopian purple skies, it’s not an inviting one, however, so perhaps he intends it as a parable about our need to hide ourselves away in shame.
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