Highlights: Articles about the Anthropocene & Contemporary Art
It’s September now, which means that here at the Synapse.info headquarter’s we’ve been receiving a barrage of new reading material from the magazine world. Apparently, the Anthropocene has been on many people’s minds. Here are some highlights of articles from…
READ MORE AND COMMENTGuest Post: Anthropocen(tr)ic Theory, by Jason Groves
Synapse.info‘s series of articles continues this week with a commissioned guest article from Jason Groves, a theorist and researcher of Integrated Humanities based at Yale University. Henry Sussman, co-founder of the Institute for Critical Climate Change and Visiting Professor in…
READ MORE AND COMMENTTue Greenfort’s “Worldly House” at d(OCUMENTA)13
d(OCUMENTA)13 ends in a few days. As viewers have noted, the exhibition deals with numerous themes – humans and nature, anthropocentrism, history – that dovetail strongly with issues presented by the Anthropocene. Tue Greenfort’s “Worldly House”(2012), on view now, is…
READ MORE AND COMMENTEntering the Mind’s I, an exhibition curated by Elena Agudio and Manuela Lietti
Entering the Mind’s I: Some reflections on the Chinese notion of Self By Manuela Lietti
READ MORE AND COMMENTFraming the Anthropocene, Pt. 2
Framing the Anthropocene, Pt. 2 This post is the first in a series of articles commissioned by SYNAPSE, the International Curator’s Network at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. (Continued from Pt. 1, below.) In 2000, ecologist Eugene F. Stoermer…
READ MORE AND COMMENTFraming the Anthropocene, Pt. 1
This post is the first in a series of articles commissioned by SYNAPSE, the International Curator’s Network at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Some 42 kilometers east of Carlsbad, New Mexico – a town known mostly for its colossal…
READ MORE AND COMMENTBook recommendations
Dr. Leon Tan - The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting by Francois Jullien (2009)
- The Machinic Unconscious: Essays in Schizoanalysis by Felix Guattari (2010)
- Fragmented Reality: Contemporary Art in 21st Century China by Lu Peng (2012)