He leaves the armory for the sick bay, where Dr. He studies the weapons and explosive gas but steals only a broken compass. Later, Kerans returns to the base and sneaks into the armory. He studies paintings by Delvaux and Max Ernst and tells Beatrice that if they stay, they stay for good. When Riggs leaves, Kerans remains for the afternoon. She brushes off Riggs and Kerans's attempts to convince her to leave. Kerans and Riggs take the elevator up to Beatrice's top floor apartment, where she's lounging by the pool. Now, people only inhabit the Arctic and Antarctic circles. Bodies of water expanded as the ice caps and glaciers melted, entirely altering the landscape of the globe. The planet warmed rapidly, and plants and animals mutated due to the radiation. Seventy years before the present, solar storms damaged the earth's atmosphere, leaving is vulnerable to solar radiation. Bodkin, is old enough to remember living in the cities. Kerans is uninterested in the contents or the history of the cities. Kerans says he slept fine.Īs Kerans and Riggs float through the lagoons that cover the city, Kerans watches the giant iguanas in the windows. Riggs asks for help convincing Beatrice to leave the city and asks Kerans how he's been sleeping. As they drink, Riggs tells Kerans that the unit has received a command to move north to Camp Byrd permanently. He dresses and runs down to the dock where Riggs invites himself up for a drink. He wonders if he should contact his commander, Colonel Riggs, but remembers that his radio's battery is dead. It's already hot and he's spent the morning dawdling instead of working. Kerans stands on the balcony of the Ritz Hotel and watches the sun, which is an ellipse, rise.

Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.Dr. With the creative and generous contribution of COMME des GARÇONS and MVS Proseminar, University of Toronto-John H. Screenings on view each Saturday from September 21st to November 30 at the Ontario Place Cinesphere, 11am to 4pm. Within this brave new world, the artificial boundaries of modernity’s civilizations have evaporated, and life in all its forms continues to shift.Ĭomplete schedule and details can be found HERE. Prehistoric sounds the sonification of a dying star the submarine beats of Detroit’s bubble metropolis the sacrifice of a muskrat the love of an octopus. Ballard’s 1962 archaeopsychic cli-fi novel in which the ice caps have melted and submerged the world, forcing the migration of a dwindling and devolving human species into the Canadian Arctic. From cosmological origin stories, to a future in which civilization is extinct, The Drowned World contrasts deep time with the decline of global ecologies. During the Biennial, the Cinesphere becomes a world within a world, merging film and sound art with scent and changing atmospheric conditions.

The drowned world