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Wake of the Musk Ox: Baasics 6 Edge Effect

June 18, 2015July 3, 2015

Wake of the Musk Ox:

Directed and performed by eve Warnock

A HERD Production in collaboration with BAASICS, AAAS Pacific Division, and SFSU

The Musk Ox is a beautiful creature. Strong with dignity, fierce with instinct, and full of prowess. It lives in the cold Arctic’s of the northern and southern hemispheres where it bands together in impenetrable circles to protect their young. This is the story about a mother who has lost her child and has been forced to move the dead. She is one of a handful that still exist, as the largest beasts have been the first to decline and the only ones left have been forced into domestication.

Ahh here she comes now…

Her feet, my feet, restore.
Her limbs, my limbs, restore.
Her body, my body, restores.
Her voice, my voice, restores.
Her plumes, my plumes, restore.

BAASICS.6: The Edge Effect brings together a diverse group of artists, scientists, and performers whose projects and research are inspired by and shed light on the complex relationship between contemporary humanity and ecology.

Participants:

Artists Alicia Escott & Heidi Quante – The Bureau of Linguistical Reality

Artist Cameron Hockenson – Habitats

Professor Tom Parker, PhD – The Crucial Role of Fire in Maintaining California’s Natural Ecosystems

Composer Alisa Rose w/ Cellist Hannah Addario-Berry – The Trail to Land’s End

Assistant Professor Andrea Swei, PhD – Changing landscapes and the emergence of tick-borne disease

Professor Vance Vredenburg, PhD – Amphibians at the Forefront of the Sixth Mass Extinction in the Age of the Anthropocene

Performance Artist Eve Warnock – HERD

HERD

BAASICS.6: The Edge Effect

June 12, 2015

BAASICS, in collaboration with AAAS Pacific Division and SFSU, presents:

BAASICS.6: The Edge Effect

Sunday, June 14

Showtime: 8:00 – 9:30 pm

Knuth Music Hall | SF State University campus — 1756 Holloway Ave, San Francisco

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/baasics6-the-edge-effect-tickets-17022802661

(AAAS meeting attendees: FREE; SFSU students/alumni: $5; General admission: $10)

Officially, we are living in the geologic epoch known as the Holocene, meaning “entirely new.” But some scientists and commentators have proposed another name for the epoch: the Anthropocene, or the “new era of man,” owing to the significant and often detrimental influence human beings have had on Earth’s systems and habitats. Scientific debate about geologic nomenclature is generally not the stuff of newspaper headlines, but the Anthropocene has become a popular talking point.

The polemic swirling around the term is as often existential as it is technical or scientific; provocative and challenging questions are being asked. Is humanity now so industrialized and technologically advanced as to be distinct from the rest of nature? If so, how can the Earth best be protected from our species’ excesses? Or are humans just displaying the same boom-and-bust tendencies many other animals do? And if this is so, can we learn to be good stewards, thoughtfully shaping the Earth we are a part of?

Participants:

Artists Alicia Escott & Heidi Quante – The Bureau of Linguistical Reality

Artist Cameron Hockenson – Habitats

Professor Tom Parker, PhD – The Crucial Role of Fire in Maintaining California’s Natural Ecosystems

Composer Alisa Rose w/ Cellist Hannah Addario-Berry – The Trail to Land’s End

Assistant Professor Andrea Swei, PhD – Changing landscapes and the emergence of tick-borne disease

Professor Vance Vredenburg, PhD – Amphibians at the Forefront of the Sixth Mass Extinction in the Age of the Anthropocene

Performance Artist Eve Warnock – HERD

Image credit: StubbornBeauty