Land Acknowledgement Statement
Acknowledging the historical legacy of violence and the ongoing struggle resulting from colonialism is essential before research work begins in the Mississippi River region. (...)
In Situ Anthropocene
What can the Mississippi River Valley teach us about how to read the planetary shifts of the Anthropocene through its local waterways and landscapes? (...)
How did human activity alter the Mississippi Basin?
As an effect of human intervention, the former prairie of the Mississippi region has been turned into agricultural farmland. But what are the energy-based effects of land use changes? (...)
The Aerocene, London 2016
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Deep Time Chicago
Andrew Yang speaks about his involvement with the art/research/activism initiative Deep Time Chicago which endeavors to develop a public research trajectory on Anthropocene questions. (...)
Defining the Anthropocene
Which connotations does the Anthropocene concept carry? What does it hide and obscure? An input on the conceptual implications of the Anthropocene term by Bruce Braun (...)
This Is Not About Survival (It’s About Bringing Your Coracle)
A deep breath in deep time: a call for reinhabiting the Mississippi canebrake. (...)
Technosphere, Berlin 2015–19
The exploratory research project Technosphere 2015–2019 investigated the origins and future itineraries of technological agency in the Anthropocene. (...)
The Four-Dimensional Mississippi
How did the Mississippi River become both cause and register of anthropocenic changes and what do these changes reveal about the Mississippi’s future? (...)
Anthropocene. Archaeology of the Present
Opening words to the symposium and the Anthropocene River project. (...)
Exhibition Opening at G-CADD, ST. Louis
What would we loose if we just got rid of the term Anthropocene? A lively discussion explores the projects conceptual premises. (...)
How Not What—Power, Time & Landscape
“Property is the worst form of pollution.” A lecture performance on the landscapes of the American Bottom. (...)
Significant and Insignificant Mounds: Presentation
What can the mounds of North America—from temples to landfills—tell us about the history of settlement and the anthropogenic condition we inhabit today? (...)
Transect Walk: Cahokia Mounds to Fairmont City
The entire history of American settlement experienced in one afternoon stroll. (...)
Anthropocene and the Media
In the context of the seminar “Anthropocene and the Media,” students of new media theorist John Kim have developed diverse approaches and perspectives of examining the Mississippi River in relation to the Anthropocene. (...)
Temporary continent.
Temporary continent. maps the unstable tributaries of contributions and reflections arising from the research procession down the river. (...)
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. (...)