Embodying Water in the Anthropocene: \nAquatic Immersion in the Work of Joan Jonas and Jacynthe Carrier
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Responding to Etienne Turpin and Heather Davis’ argument that “art and aesthetics are central to thinking with and feeling through the Anthropocene,” this thesis examines the transformative possibilities of immersive, embodied, and sensory artistic practices in addressing environmental change. Two case studies – Moving off the Land (2016-ongoing) by American artist Joan Jonas (b. 1936) and brise glace soleil blanc (2016) by Quebec-based artist Jacynthe Carrier (b. 1982) – explore how art can enhance awareness of aquatic ecosystems and provide critical ways of engaging with endangered bodies of water. This \nresearch project focuses on the artists’ commitment to water as a pressing environmental concern but also as a medium of embodiment and immersion that evokes alternatives to patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist relations to nature. Furthermore, the combination of performance, video, and photography in these two artworks is examined as a sensory strategy that amplifies perceptions of contemporary aquatic environments.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".