The Intrusion Of Gaia

The Intrusion of Gaia is an experimental film in which place, memory, and artistic praxis grapple with technology, climate, and the post-human. The film takes its title from Bruno Latour’s writings, in which Gaia is transformed from a Greek myth into a wholly scientific figure representing the complex, entangled Earth System, following the ‘Gaia Hypothesis’ by Lovelock and Margulis. Latour suggests that the impact of anthropogenic change has become equivalent to a geophysical force and that the Earth System has responded by raising the spectre of a climate catastrophe that rivals the geopolitical. In the film, Gaia intrudes on human affairs, yet the artist also becomes an intruder. Empty spaces become occupied by a re-animated nature while human technology becomes sedimentary material.