Keyword: Degradation
- contributionKat Austen, Juliana A. Ivar do Sul, Jérôme Kaiser, Joana MacLean, Georg N. Schäfer
What’s So Micro About Plastics?
What does the Baltic Sea drill core reveal about microplastics and the difficulty of defining their sources? Part of Unearthing the Present in May 2022.
Teaching, Biosphere, Commodities, Critical materials, Degradation, Education, Future, Human-environment relations, Ocean, Pollution, Sedimentation
- contributionXandra van der Eijk
Visualizing the Vibrant Materiality of Place
What insights can artistic research data produce in the scientific analysis of the natural archive? Xandra van der Eijk addresses the value of artmaking with, through, and between the materiality of place in the sediment samples of Sydney Harbour.
Case Study, Sensing, Agency, Complexity, Critical materials, Hybrid, Aesthetics, Pollution, Degradation, Toxicity
- contributionKate Brown
The Skeletal Remains of the Nuclear Anthropocene
Comparing the approaches to radioactive fallout in the US and USSR, Kate Brown retraces the ways in which radio biologists and ecologists assessed and contorted radioactive contamination to study the resilience of ecosystems and human bodies.
Case Study, Disaster, Radioactivity, Ecology, Waste, Environmental Justice, Degradation
- contributionNina Canell and Robin Watkins
Silurian Harvest
Artists Nina Canell and Robin Watkins recover the deep-time aquatic past of the limestone environment that formed the island of Gotland and delineate the temporal entanglements between ancient life creation and modern-day living.
Sensing, Field Work, Aesthetics, Critical materials, Deep time, Degradation, Future, Economy, History, Human-environment relations, Sedimentation
- contributionJulian Charrière, Nadim Samman
As We Used to Float
Julian Charrière and Nadim Samman take us on a dive into Bikini Atoll to tell the story of the post-atomic ghostlands and the never-to-end heritage of contamination in the blasted reefs.
Field Work, Affect, Degradation, Disaster, Indigenous Rights, Ocean, Radioactivity
- contributionAgnieszka Gałuszka, Neil L. Rose, Andy Cundy, Michael Wagreich, Yongming Han, Simon Turner, William Shotyk
Anthropogenic Threats to Ecosystems in the Anthropocene
Field Work, Biosphere, Deep time, Degradation, Ecology, Future, Stratigraphy, Scale, Species
- contributionMatthew C. Wilson
Geological Evidences
We live to burn and we burn to live. Artist Matthew C. Wilson pieces together the pyrogenic deep time of rifts, violent changes that also always produce new possibilities.
Field Work, Film, Carbon, Capitalism, Critical materials, Degradation, Ecology, Metabolism, Thermodynamics
- contributionSebastián Ureta
Tailings and the Onset of a Chilean Anthropocene
Sebastián Ureta gives a thick description of Anthropocene landscapes where vast, stratified dumps of chemical residues that largely outlive their creators.
Mapping, Critical materials, Deep time, Degradation, Disaster, Environmental Justice, Mining, Policy, Waste
- contributionBenjamin Steininger
Louisiana: A Planetary Reactor
A River Journey reflection on power, the simultaneously planetary and molecular petrochemical industry, and the petrostate.
Field Work, Case Study, Engagement, Carbon, Degradation, Economy, Climate change, Commodities, Extraction, Energy, Infrastructure, Toxicity, Waste, Pollution
- contributionJohn Anfinson
An Anthropocene Challenge: Creating models for landscape-scale change
How can we develop landscapes in response to the Anthropocene? A reflection on the defunct Upper Harbor Terminal complex.
Reflection, Adaptation, Degradation, Human-environment relations, Resilience, Naturecultures, Model
- contributionPatrick Nunnally
One Place, Many Names
What are the ideological underpinnings of common notions of “restoration”? Patrick Nunally explores this question on the site of Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Reflection, Adaptation, Degradation, Resilience, Naturecultures, Industrialization
- contributionSadie Luetmer
Seminar Film: Exhaustion and Imagination
This short film offers insights into the perspectives and methods of the seminar on “Exhaustion and Imagination,” which took place within the framework of the Anthropocene River Campus, 2019.
Field Work, Imaginary, Time, Degradation, Environmental Justice
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Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
Field Study, Mapping, Degradation, Erosion, History, Landscape, Life
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Conversation, Anthropology, Anthropos, Care, Degradation
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Storytelling, Reflection, Field Work, Intervention, Engagement, Conversation, Capitalism, Carbon, Care, Degradation, Energy, Engagement, Future, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice, Extraction, Oil, Expanded field, Confluence
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Adaptation, Biodiversity, Climate change, Complexity, Contingency, Degradation, Ecology, Evolution, Landscape, Life, Resilience, Adventitious, Geo-ecologies
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Field Work, Degradation, History, Life, Plantation
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Sauget, Illinois, USA
Data, Degradation, Disaster, Governance, Environmental Justice, Media
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Moline, Illinois, USA
Field Study, Storytelling, Agriculture, Degradation, Landscape, Mechanosphere, Technosphere, Industrialization
- projectJason Ludwig
From Plantations to Petrochemicals
What can the history of slavery tell us about the future of the Anthropocene?
Field Study, History, Commodities, Economy, Capitalism, Degradation, Agriculture, Energy, Pollution
- projectMonica Moses Haller, Monique Verdin, Matt Rahaim, Adam Crosson, Kristine L. DeLong, Matt Sakakeeny, Simon Turner, Joshua Lewis, Albertine Kimble
Seminar: Exhaustion and Imagination
Focusing on the limits—and opportunities—exhaustion engenders, in this seminar the difficulties of being out of energy and out of ideas will be related to the challenges posed by the Anthropocene.
Case Study, Teaching, Future, Imaginary, Time, Degradation, Affect, Ethics, Epistemology, Engagement, Extinction, Environmental Justice, Species, Speculative
- contributionEsther Leslie
Waste in Time and the Radioactivity of Objects
Cultural scholar Esther Leslie reveals the vexing temporalities of contemporary types of waste.
Engagement, Economy, Degradation, Toxicity
- projectSophia Roosth, Arren Bar-Even, Luis Campos, Helena Shomar, knowbotiq, Fred Hystère, Angi Nend, Claudia de Serpa Soares, Nicolas Buzzi, Pablo Alarcón
Seeds
The technological dissolution between internal and external conditions for life is manifest in the way seeds are handled. A series of conversations explores the practices and ideologies behind the collapse of modification and mutation. A subsequent performance of micro-processions will conjure historical and current moments of the agro-industrial technosphere.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Sensing, Storytelling, Teaching, Agriculture, Biosphere, Degradation, Calculation, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Extraction, Human-environment relations, Embodiment, Landscape, Life, Plantation, Water, Waste, Toxicity, Pollution
- projectLino Camprubí, Zachary Caple, Gregory T. Cushman, Heather Davis, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Arno Rosemarin, Frank Uekötter, Katrina Schwartz
Phosphorus: An Apparatus of the Technosphere
Within the technosphere, earth becomes energy, people become populations and space becomes sphere. But how to make visible this network of flows coursing through our bodies?
Communicating, Intervention, Conversation, Reflection, Storytelling, Teaching, Anthropos, Agriculture, Biosphere, Capitalism, Critical materials, Degradation, Complexity, Commodities, Embodiment, Energy, Landscape, Mining, Waste, Violence, Technosphere
