Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange 2022–
An expansive educational and research collaboration through the formation of five river hubs spanning the Mississippi River’s headwaters to the Gulf. (...)
Where is the Planetary? Day 1
In an experimental setting designed by artist Koki Tanaka, scientists, scholars, and artists share various perspectives on planetary practice. (...)
Where is the Planetary? Day 2
The search for a common planetary practice becomes tangible, as the five research questions are linked to a series of activities. (...)
Where is the Planetary? Day 3
The search for the coordinates, overlaps, convergences, and tensions that arise when myriad cosmologies converge around a common intent. (...)
A Drift
Matthew C. Wilson traverses ancient prehistory to speculative futures, meditating on the chancy throughlines that make up the world as we know it. (...)
Collaborative Practice on a Changing Planet
In the fall of 2022, AC initiatives from around the world came together to envision a transformed future for the long-term collaboration of the network. (...)
A Conversation with Koki Tanaka on Where is the Planetary?
Koki Tanaka explains his approach to designing five experimental settings for Where is the Planetary? (...)
An Earth Being Platform
Macarena Gómez-Barris immerses herself in Earth’s archive of wreckage as a way of exploring what accountability might look like in the present. (...)
Building and Forgetting
Does habitability today requires not the building up of more knowledge, but rather the relinquishing, forgetting, or disinheriting of knowledge? (...)
Cosmic Conversations
The Cosmic Conversations project brings together researchers from across disciplines to discuss ecological, artistic, political, and philosophical issues related to Anthropocene research. (...)
Cosmic Conversations 2020
Six Brazilian researchers from different areas talk about ways of approaching the brutal effects of climate change. (...)
Cosmic Conversations 2021
Conversations on a multispecies approach to pandemics, the Anthropocene concept, and the visualization of knowledge. (...)
Cosmic Conversations 2022
Conversations on the question of habitability and the task of keeping the Earth hospitable. (...)
Incarnate Witnesses
A reflection on the contemporary conflicts in Myanmar and Ukraine, offering three perspectives on the trauma of war and possibilities for repair. (...)
Moths, Flames, and Other Attractions
L. Sasha Gora takes a moth-eaten dress as a starting point for a meditation on eating and care. (...)
Relational Repair
A conversation about repair, drawing on experiences from East Germany and South Africa. (...)
Repair Is Broken
Louise Carver examines what is broken about neoliberal capitalist modes of repair in the context of the Anthropocene. (...)