Natalia Evelyn Bencicova “Sensus Communis - Anti-Atlantis”

Sensus Communis uses a virtual environment, sound, touch, and smell to create a bodily presence inside the thematic narrative Anti-Atlantis.

If Atlantis is the story of an ancient culture destroyed by nature, then Anti-Atlantis represents its opposite – a future landscape destroyed by a human culture of excess. The organic form represents the vision of a 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 resource for industrial production with alarming pollu-
tion levels. The Anthropocene leads to paradise lost, a disaster scenario that, if we ignore warning signs, gradually consumes everything. Anti-Atlantis calls for the moment of awakening. In time travel between past and future, it brings attention to our present behavior, its consequences, and impulse for change.

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