In this case study, artist Katrin Hornek explores ways of “thinking with” and “feeling through” the Anthropocene. Hornek combines sound with a collectively formed installation in Riga, Latvia—consisting of 80 tonnes of Latvian clay—that invites visitors to develop a tactile, sense-based understanding of entangled material histories. Through touch, the red clay is activated as a resonating archive—a potential birthplace of life on this planet, and a future host for collective geo-bodies to come. The research asks, what is the potential for sense-based practices to rewrite the metabolizing archives of the Anthropocene? And what forms of knowledge can emerge from embodied sensing and perception?
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