ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE
These case study reports focuses on “worst case” scenarios for release of toxic chemicals in settings across California. The reports addresses a series of ten questions that draw out local details in a manner that encourages comparison with other places.
The research has been done quickly (within the constraints of a quarter-long undergraduate class) so is limited to and points to the need for further research and community engagement. The goal is to help build both a body of research on enviro (...)
On the Recuperative Mismanagement of a Cosmopolitan Fish
To close the opening week of The Shape of a Practice, artists created a convivial meal-at-a-distance with so-called invasive species. From a kitchen in Carbondale, Illinois, artist Sarah Lewison, alongside storyteller and soul food authority Swan Parsons, prepare a meal of Asian carp, opening up questions related to an eco-logic of planetary care and our relationships to habitat. From Berlin and Chicago, artist and biologist Andrew Yang, biologist Florian Rutland and artist Alexandra Toland prep (...)
Water Language: A Conversation with Shanai Matteson and Oscar Tuazon
From the Iron Range in Minnesota’s Northern reaches to industrial farming in the South, to the strength and vibrancy of its Native reservations, it’s impossible to write about rural Minnesota as a singular place. While urban areas concentrate complexity, rural Minnesota exhibits it over expansive distances. Many of the issues that have made the Twin Cities the recent focus of national attention are echoed in the state's rural struggles. These include explosive fights over social and racial justi (...)
Drawn Together
In designing and operating large-scale infrastructures, humans tend toward fixity—despite increasingly dynamic conditions, such as those at play in the Mississippi River Delta context. The Anthropocene River Campus seminar “Un/bounded Engineering and Evolutionary Stability” sought to explore the multi-scalar effects of such human interventions, and how new futures might be imagined that engage and work with these dynamics. To do so, the seminar employed the practice of drawing as its core method (...)
Core Readings: West Flower Garden Bank Reef and Flinders Reef
A close reading of coral samples from the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean—finding signals of ocean warming and the impacts of offshore oil extraction. (...)
(un)mutable channels
Voices and atmospheres recorded along the length of the Mississippi River Valley, seeking out the political and spatialized through sound, music, and field recordings. (...)
Fabled Headwaters of the Mee-zee-see-bee
Voices from the Mississippi Headwaters and Twin Cities share reflections on canoeing, protest and a 100-year history of the region. (...)
Perspectives from Other Nows
As testimonies from disparate times, the experimental publishing collective continent. present excerpts from recorded conversations that are now echoes of a seemingly far gone implicitness and presumption. (...)
Seeding Sovereignty
A collage of recorded conversations about the systems of structural racism and land-use brought about by settler colonialism in the Midwest. (...)
On the Impossibility of Representing a River
There are uncountable ways to look at a river, yet many of them are invisible in today’s cartographic depictions. (...)
Interview: Communicating
Seminar moderators Nishant Shah and Felipe Castelblanco reflect on how communicating in the Anthropocene entails making sense of an intellectual and sensorial force. (...)
Interview: Sensing
Seminar moderators Allison Stegner and Yasaman Sheri reflect on the pathways, pitfalls and rewards of collectively learning to sense differently. (...)
#1 Introduction to Season 2: Migration–Perspectives on Displacement in the Anthropocene
Introduction to the themes of Season 2 of the Field Station 5 podcast, which began during the 2019 project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River. (...)
#2: “Refugees Welcome”: The Commodification of Political Status and Perspectives from the Cultural Industry
What’s left of “refugees welcome”, the slogan popularized in Europe in 2015? What comes from speaking out in solidarity while having very limited power to achieve political change? (...)
#3: Migration from the Perspective of Data and Evidence-Based Policy
Abbéy Odunlami and guests discuss climate-induced migration and displacement as pressing issues on the bumpy road towards coherent climate and migration policies in the EU. (...)
#4: Migration from the Outside Looking In
In Germany, being labelled as a person with a “migration background” comes with various forms of discrimination. What do people who have lived this have to say about it? (...)
Broadcasting Live from... Field Station 5 (Season 02)
Transmitting from Berlin, Germany, season 2 of Abbéy Odunlami’s podcast features conversations on Europe’s role in the age of migration which is also the age of the Anthropocene. (...)
The Current: Mississippi. An Anthropocene River
The installation The Current presented field studies by artists, scholars, and activists who were involved in the AC project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River. (...)
