Interactive tour for school groups on the exhibition The Sunset Fired a Hundred Suns.
Dark Forest
- Date:
- 4 Dec 2023–
7 Mar 2024
- Age restrictions
- 12+
The lesson is adapted for middle and high school students. The materials were prepared in accordance with the requirements of Federal state educational standards and may supplement the curriculum in the following subjects: art history, literature, social studies, and history.
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What is a dark forest? In the literal sense, it is a dense group of trees growing so closely together that no sunlight can pass through them. In the figurative sense, we use this expression to describe something very complex, unclear, and unknown. The Chinese sci-fi writer Liu Cixin uses this metaphor to describe the outer space: he imagines it as an impassible thicket which hides many secrets.
Illustration:
Stepan Lipatov,
Varya Fomicheva
The lesson on the exhibition The Sunset Fired a Hundred Suns examines the history of perceiving the cosmos, its visual representation in art and mass culture. A key theme will be the intersection of science and myth: why does space, a subject of analysis for astrophysicists and astronomers, also serve as the basis for myth-making and conspiracy theories?
Authors
Mikhail Ukhin, Sergei Zykov —