The Anthropocene Project

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The Anthropocene Project was a multidisciplinary art and science project at the House of World Cultures , Berlin. It was in the years 2013 - 2014 .

Content and structure

Under the subtitle: " Basic cultural research using the means of art and science" , the project tried to sound out the diverse implications of the Anthropocene hypothesis through exhibitions , symposia , concerts , workshops and many other discourse formats. Over 40 events and exhibitions were held over the two years, each approaching the topic in different ways. While some subject areas were dealt with with singular events, larger contexts were dealt with multidisciplinary in modular sub-projects. A large number of the projects were made accessible for later access in a media library.

Some sub-projects

  • Inhuman music: compositions of machines, animals and coincidences (concerts, symposia, performances). The series of events presented compositions of machines, animals and coincidences.
  • The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside (exhibition, conference). As an essay from artistic positions and cultural-historical materials, the project questioned the influence of photography of the »Blue Planet« in the mid-1960s in the transfer of ecological-systemic concepts to society, politics and aesthetics.
  • Anthropocene Observatory (documentation, films, exhibition, archive). The project looked at the destabilizing conditions in political systems, institutions, law, infrastructures, war, land, scientific research, markets and planning institutions triggered by the Anthropocene.
  • A Matter Theater (positions, round tables, dialogues, screenings, performances, workshops). A situational space for collaborative thought exercises, presentations and workshops in which international artists, theorists and scientists locate the effects of human activity in the dynamic structure of material cycles and earth conditions, geo-historical events and global technologies.

Involved

“The Anthropocene Project” was an initiative of the House of World Cultures in cooperation with the Max Planck Society , Deutsches Museum , Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies . The curators included a. Bernd M. Scherer, Detlef Diederichsen , Silvia Fehrmann, Anselm Franke, Katrin Klingan, Holger Schulze . Scientists and artists involved in the content included a. Elizabeth A. Povinelli , Adam Avikainen, Nabil Ahmed, Armin Linke, Naomi Oreskes , the Otolith Group , Adrian Piper , Territorial Agency, Linda Havenstein , Sharon Lockhart.

Web links

  • Documentation of all projects [2]
  • Mediatheque of the projects [3]
  • Meeting in the TAZ [4]
  • Meeting in the Tagesspiegel [5]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ House of World Cultures: Inhuman Music. December 19, 2016, accessed May 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ House of World Cultures: The Whole Earth. August 1, 2019, accessed May 27, 2020 .
  4. ^ House of World Cultures: Anthropocene Observatory. October 6, 2016, accessed May 27, 2020 .
  5. ^ House of World Cultures: A Matter Theater. July 21, 2016, accessed May 27, 2020 .