How do we connect pollutant markers demarcating the Anthropocene with the exploitative and unequal anthropogenic-economic-industrial systems that created them?

Since 2019, Science Gallery Bengaluru (SGB) has conducted multiple public engagement programmes around the Anthropocene.

What insights can artistic research data produce in the scientific analysis of the natural archive? Xandra van der Eijk addresses the value of artmaking with, through, and between the materiality of place in the sediment samples of Sydney Harbour.

Assessing the effects of artificial radioactivity on human bodies and natural environments has a special place in the history of risk regulation, and has provided a key basis for understanding and defining the anthropogenic danger to life on Earth.

What might an “Anthropocene archive” look like? Media anthropologist Shannon Mattern proposes that it should embrace its ever evolving content, structure and context.

Under the water line an entirely different auditive setting begins. Can we learn to heal and re-build relations with our damaged environment by frequenting this boundary?

If a corporation can have rights, then why not the Mississippi River?

A River Journey reflection on power, the simultaneously planetary and molecular petrochemical industry, and the petrostate.

Findings of a project considering anthropogenic impact upon air quality along the Mississippi River, exploring shifts in pollution concentration patterns.

A chromatic record of the intimate relationship between the Mississippi River and its surrounding soils.

Unearthing the pre-industrial waterways of the Mississippi River Delta.

The impact of fossil fuel emissions on climate change is well established. This research project sheds light on the lesser known origins and history of the petro-industry.

Listening to the stories and sounds that resonate around the Mississippi can show how ecosystems exist within multiple crisscrossing interrelations.

The New Orleans Anthropocene Field Campus investigates site-specific processes of environmental change and injustice and develops tactics for interdisciplinary engagement with the Anthropocene.

Gender studies scholars Malin Ah-King and Eva Hayward question the essentialist and heteronormative assumptions that frame discourses on endocrine disruptors.

More than a metaphor describing the technosphere, addiction in fact characterizes it. Artists Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann collage a series of interviews and research vignettes on methamphetamine in the US.

Looking at opium at a historical intersection between Western European culture and Chinese tradition, philosopher Paul Boshears examines how addiction has come to define human relations and intelligence.

Cultural scholar Esther Leslie reveals the vexing temporalities of contemporary types of waste.

The technological dissolution between internal and external conditions for life is manifest in the way seeds are handled. A series of conversations explores the practices and ideologies behind the collapse of modification and mutation. A subsequent performance of micro-processions will conjure historical and current moments of the agro-industrial technosphere.