Age of the Earth, Brazil & Latin America 2020–
Age of the Earth covers an array of initiatives which aim to think, feel, and act through the troubles of the Anthropocene, fostering South and Latin American perspectives. (...)
The Remote Sensation of Disintegration
Experimental film exploring Louisiana’s ecological bodies and their segregation by extractivism—the process of extracting natural resources from the Earth to sell on the world market—witnessed from the water of the Mississippi River, the sky over Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, and satellites accessed from a computer in London.
An ongoing work, the film is formed from a variety of materials including images from research trips, oil industry datasets, and audio recording reflecting on the knowledg (...)
Inheritance 2.0
A guided meditation that invites us to journey deep into the earth and back in time. (...)
Re-earthing Through Collective Study
Geographer Huiying Ng and urban farmer Michelle Lai’s case study presents methods for intentionally unlearning conventional perspectives of landscape. (...)
Sensing the Spree
Exploring technically mediated practices of sensing as used in conservation, as well as nonhuman sensing, where plants themselves become the sensors. (...)
Sowing Somankidi Coura
An archival research and film project chronicling the cooperative of Somankidi Coura, founded in Senegal by returning migrant workers in 1977. (...)
Environing Media and the Anthropocene
Charts and maps shape our understanding of the world but beyond this, how do data and representations actively form environments? (...)
Environmental Sensing
Margarida Mendes considers the relationships between the body, environment, and industry, and speculates on the sonic residue of toxicity in Mississippi’s petrochemical corridor. (...)
Hierarchy of the Senses and Materialism of Touch
What misperceptions stem from the privileging of sight as “the noblest of the senses” in Western thinking? (...)
Labour Lung
Labour Lung is part of a series of work examining the handing over of our total biological and cognitive functions to capitalist technologies. (...)
Reflections of the Past
Breeding and releasing sturgeons in the Danube River, biologists seek new ways to perceive what ecological conditions both the fish and the human need to prosper. (...)
The Beam, the Air and the Speck
What could dust teach us if we listened to it? This project follows the interaction of dust particles with the species and landscapes of their environment. (...)
There is Power in Coming Together Time and Again
Notes from the Grupo de Pesquisa em Ecologia das Práticas on the messy task of crafting common worlds in the Anthropocene. (...)
When House on the Prairie Became Possibility Island
Ecologist Michael Swierz’s invitation to attune to our own physical embodiment as a focal point for responding to the Anthropocene. (...)
Take-Home Guide for Navigating the Ecosystem
Downloadable instructions for building a miniature boat that offer an intuitive exercise in navigating our own eco-cosmological embodiment. (...)
Interview: Sensing
Seminar moderators Allison Stegner and Yasaman Sheri reflect on the pathways, pitfalls and rewards of collectively learning to sense differently. (...)
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. (...)
A Seed, a Sound
Attuning oneself to the transformations of the Anthropocene is both an intellectual and embodied experience. But how can the embodied experiences be shared, or even communicated, to one another online? (...)
