Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Amongst Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies

edited past Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin

  • Critical Climate Change
  • Published: 2014
  • ISBN: 978-1-78542-008-five
  • PDF ISBN: 978-ane-78542-000-9

Taking equally its premise that the proposed geologic epoch of the Anthropocene is necessarily an artful upshot, this volume explores the relationship between gimmicky art and noesis production in an era of ecological crunch, with contributions from artists, curators, theorists and activists. Contributors include Amy Balkin, Ursula Biemann, Amanda Boetzkes, Lindsay Bremner, Joshua Clover & Juliana Spahr, Heather Davis, Sara Dean, Elizabeth Ellsworth & Jamie Kruse (smudge studio), Irmgard Emmelhainz, Anselm Franke, Peter Galison, Fabien Giraud & Ida Soulard, Laurent Gutierrez & Valérie Portefaix (MAP Office), Terike Haapoja & Laura Gustafsson, Laura Hall, Ilana Halperin, Donna Haraway & Martha Kenney, Ho Tzu Nyen, Bruno Latour, Jeffrey Malecki, Mary Mattingly, Mixrice (Cho Jieun & Yang Chulmo), Natasha Myers, Jean-Luc Nancy & John Paul Ricco, Vincent Normand, Richard Pell & Emily Kutil, Tomás Saraceno, Sasha Engelmann & Bronislaw Szerszynski, Ada Smailbegovic, Karolina Sobecka, Zoe Todd, Richard Streitmatter-Tran & Vi Le, Anna-Sophie Springer, Sylvère Lotringer, Peter Sloterdijk, Etienne Turpin, Pinar Yoldas, and Una Chaudhuri, Fritz Ertl, Oliver Kellhammer & Marina Zurkow.

"This brilliant drove of essays and projects, gathered from all over the world, reflects the limits and possibilities of how visual art might reply to what Sylvère Lotringer describes as a "state of emergency." Art in the Anthropocene is at once an investigation and an homage to the natural world. Information technology describes what we possess and what nosotros take lost."

Chris Kraus – author of Where Art Belongs

"Fine art in the Anthropocene is an art book like no other, embracing an boggling range of subjects that affect what we phone call "our" environment. Visual artists are, for once, equal participants in these imaginative, intelligent, and informative discussions of the most pressing problems of our time, and deep time."

Lucy R. Lippard – writer of Undermining: A Wild Ride through Land Use, Politics and Fine art in the Changing West

"Phone call information technology the Anthropocene, the #misanthropocene, or something else—in that location's a growing recognition that these are damaged times, even if nobody is quite sure how to see, call back, or feel them. That's why Art in the Anthropocene is so important. Davis and Turpin have gathered upward the seeds for a whole biome of fine art and thought about the things that really matter in this globe."

McKenzie Wark – author of Molecular Cerise: Theory for the Anthropocene

"This is a rich, ambitious, and beautifully edited collection that reimagines the Anthropocene every bit an melancholia rather than a scientific fact. It touches the very core of our being (post)human being—and of the space around us we variously call "the environment" or "the globe." Fine art in the Anthropocene is vital read for anyone who cares most art, animals, climate, ideals, extinction, justice, plants, poesy and the weather!"

Joanna Zylinska – author of Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene

Editor Bios

Heather Davis is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University, where she is working on a project that traces the ethology of plastic equally a materialization of the philosophic division of the discipline and object. Previously, she was a FQRSC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Women's Studies at Duke Academy. She completed her Ph.D. in the joint program in Communication at Concordia University in 2011 on the political potential of customs-based fine art. She has been a visiting scholar in the program in Aesthetics and Politics at CalArts, the Experimental Critical Theory plan at UCLA, the Hemispheric Institute of Operation and Politics at NYU, and the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the editor of Want/Modify : Gimmicky Feminist Fine art in Canada (MAWA/McGillQueen'due south Upwards, forthcoming 2016). She has written widely about the intersection of art, politics, and ecological disaster. heathermdavis.com

Etienne Turpin is a philosopher studying, curating, designing and writing about complex urban systems, political economies of data and infrastructure, visual culture and aesthetic practices, and Southeast Asian colonial–scientific history. In Jakarta, Etienne is the managing director of anexact office and the co–master investigator, with Tomas Holderness, of PetaJakarta.org. At the University of Wollongong, Etienne is the Vice–Chancellor'southward Postdoctoral Research Swain with the SMART Infrastructure Facility and an Associate Enquiry Fellow with the Australian Center for Cultural Environmental Research. He is also a member of the SYNAPSE International Curators' Network of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, where he is the co–editor, with Anna–Sophie Springer, of the intercalations: paginated exhibition series equally part of the Das AnthropozänProjekt. He is the editor of Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Pattern, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy (Open Humanities Press, 2013) and co–editor of Jakarta: Architecture + Adaptation (Universitas Indonesia Press, 2013).