Presentations
With Michael Swierz and Monica Moses Haller

Experiencing the Anthropocene is multidimensional and requires using novel human and non-human sensoriums to apprehend it. Attuning oneself to the transformations of the Anthropocene is therefore not only an intellectual but also an embodied affair. But how is it that such embodied experiences can be shared or even communicated to one another online? Also, how do each of these sense modalities produce different ramifications for how and why certain transformations are registered and others not? 

Michael Swierz, whose work synthesizes aspects of poetry, visual art and interspecies communication, introduces the concept of participatory ecology by interrogating panspecies interrelations and global stewardship through embodied inquiry. In a guided listening session, artist Monica Moses Haller uses underwater recordings, generating a perceptual account of the Mississippi River through sounds that enable one to enter it’s historical, social, and environmental materiality.

The event will be streamed via The Shape of a Practice online environment: http://shape.anthropocene-curriculum.org