Auksinės sraigės opera kaip antropoceninės savivokos apraiška
Golden Snail Opera as a manifestation of anthropocenic self-perception

Summary/Abstract: Drawing on the example of the “Golden Snail Opera”, the article discusses the essential aspects of the cultural, scientific and political impact of contemporary art, which is rising ecological awareness and appealing to the understanding of the challenges of the Anthropocene. By transcending the distinction between nature and culture through works of art or artistic political events, the prevailing idea of the aesthetic relationship with the work of art and the theoretization based on it are becoming meaningless. The primary is an artistic exploratory political process involving the wider community. The group of 4 women artists and scientists who created the "Golden Snail Opera" is an example of the unbreakable globalization of East and West, as well as the cultures and scientific institutions of the global South and North. In the video of 7 actions with a prologue and an epilogue, there are three characters, whose texts can be read by one or three voices, and the connection of the work is performed on Taiwanese drums. The work was created by filming and recording the specific experience of a particular farming in the cultivation of rice in an area of Taiwan, it collected and summarized large-scale, diverse scientific data that showed how lifestyles and people's self-awareness changed in this area, how modern capitalism "broke" traditions, how people were forced to adapt to new living conditions, which increasingly began to be associated with the events of globalization and their consequences. The main character of the opera is a golden snail appearing in its own sounds and images, brought from Argentina and became a harmful invasive species with which humans began to learn to coexist. The article also uses other works of ecological scientific artistic research that develop a "more than human" attitude towards the world or an "ontological turn", and highlights the aspect of the world's multispecies consciousness and spirituality that emerges in these arts. In this aspect the experience of the life of mankind is accumulated.

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