Sounding the Mississippi
Listening to the stories and sounds that resonate around the Mississippi can show how ecosystems exist within multiple crisscrossing interrelations. (...)
Temporary continent.
Temporary continent. maps the unstable tributaries of contributions and reflections arising from the research procession down the river. (...)
The Panesthetic River
This project identifies rivers as crucial for investigating representations of the Anthropocene, via the medium of experimental documentary film. (...)
Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta
The Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta synthesized the downstream Mississippi within a week-long field research and educational event at Tulane University, as well as sites in and around New Orleans. (...)
An Aesthetics of Displacement
On dams, micro worlds and the end of humanity—four short films inspired by the Headwaters field station. (...)
Anthropocene River Journey
What travel routes, forms of travel, and narratives are suitable for the new planetary realities? (...)
Broadcasting Live from… Field Station 5
A narrative-based podcast that discusses how geography determines many people’s relationship to resources, land, and wellbeing. (...)
Data Sensing
A home-built device travels downstream to explore the limits of digital representation and the possibilities of uncertain knowledge. (...)
Field Station 3: Anthropocene Vernacular
In the St. Louis region, memories and meanings of millennia of settlement collide. Anthropocene Vernacular investigates how everyday culture has been cultivated in the midst of social, environmental, economic crises. (...)
Field Station 5: Place, Space & Relations of Belongings
The Upper Delta region is shaped by environmental forces of evolving multiracial identities and inherently global economic forces. Field Station 5 explores the spatial dynamics which formed the contemporary identity of this region. (...)
Midway Meeting St. Louis
At the “Midway Meeting” in St. Louis, project partners gathered to explore the temporal and topographical multiplicitices of the metropolitcan region of St. Louis. (...)
Mississippi, an Anthropocene Story
Does the river provide a structure for knowledge in the Anthropocene? The Twin Cities artist in residence dives in to find out. (...)
Natchez: Etiologies of Anthropocenic Emergence
Natchez rests at the intersection of entangled violence of white supremacism and human exceptionalism as they play out on the landscape. (...)
Project Launch Minneapolis
At the opening event of Mississippi. An Anthropocene River collaborators gathered for a public symposium, workshops and field excursions to discuss how the Anthropocene concept can activate novels ways of engaging with global change. (...)
River Memory
A multigenerational oral history project on the fabric of race, class, labor and the river in St. Louis. (...)
Significant and Insignificant Mounds
Significant and Insignificant Mounds looks to read two landscapes across one another in order to complicate our understandings of authenticity, meaning, and form. (...)
Field Station 1: Sediment, Settlement, Sentiment
The stretch of the Mississippi between Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa is marked both by its “natural” and “anthropogenic” origin. (...)
Over the Levee, Under the Plow
A traveling seminar on the relations between settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and environmental concerns in the Upper Midwest territory. (...)