Discussions
(with simultaneous translation into German)
With Spółdzielnia „Krzak“, Gilly Karjevsky & Rosario Talevi, Monique Verdin, Nikiwe Solomon, Fernando Silva e Silva, Ela Spalding, Raphaël Grisey & Bouba Touré and Simon Turner
Moderated by Patricia Reed

The Anthropocene has a coordination problem. With its many scale effects and asymmetrical local contestations, it is a time riddled with challenges to coordinate action and research. With that in mind, this series of conversations will highlight the many challenges of coordinating Anthropocene related projects at different scales, both spatially and temporally. The conversations will aim to share and mitigate the collective challenges of coordination by negotiating how context, power, and communication all factor into realizing a project or knowledge community while, at the same time, synthesizing how strategies can be translated into specific effects in the world.

The talks will be broken down into different scales, where participants with projects at a similar spatial or temporal scale share insights as to how they have met these challenges of context, power, and communication.

The session will begin with a short framing by philosopher Patricia Reed. From there on she will lead three discussions that approach different scales of coordination. Dealing with a singular site, the Warsaw based collective Spółdzielnia „Krzak“ will speak with Gilly Karjevsky and Rosario Talevi about the complexities of working on their respective sites, both of which were repurposed for their activities. Following this site specific focus, Cape Town based anthropologist Nikiwe Solomon and Porto Alegre based philosopher Fernando Silva e Silva discuss the challenges around coordinating research projects that encompass entire regions. The final conversation will be focused on projects that move between multiple sites and continents with artist Ela Spalding from Estudio Nuboso, geologist Simon Turner from the Anthropocene Working Group, and artist / activists Raphaël Grisey and Bouba Touré who document and participate in the Somankidi Coura project.

The event will be streamed via The Shape of a Practice online environment: http://shape.anthropocene-curriculum.org