In the fall of 2021, Science Gallery Bengaluru invited young adults to respond to prompts on the theme of climate change with creative responses.

Published in 2022, this experimental guide to Venice forms a new, illuminating and disturbing mosaic of the water city and its Lagoon.

This interdisciplinary research community at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice engages with water politics and waterscapes, ecocriticism, and ecological art practices.

An expansive educational and research collaboration through the formation of five river hubs spanning the Mississippi River’s headwaters to the Gulf.

A conversation between Dr. Catherine Russell, Anthropocene sedimentologist and Dr. Jamie Allen, an artist and media researcher.

How can we mediate and embed scientific findings into new narrations? And what contingency, what order, will these narrations have?

A conversation that takes the stratigraphic research in Ernesto Cave, Italy, as a starting point for exploring how we might conceive a truly planetary time.

A live annotation of a sediment core from the Searsville Lake uncovered the anthropogenic markers inscribed into this stratigraphic material.

Tracing socio-political upheavals and technological change in sediment samples from Sihailongwan Lake in northeastern China.

How do tropes and images of a changing ocean operate in a larger system of cultural sensemaking? Killian Quigley collects a range of threads to map the disfiguration and deformation of an anthropocenic biosphere that swells below the sea’s surface.

Venice’s critical environment is a paradigmatic case for comprehending socio-environmental history in dialogue with the Earth sciences.

Pietro Daniel Omodeo looks at the water city as a symbol for human-environment relations in the Anthropocene.

What does it mean to sense, to know, to witness? Artists Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani propose an “ecopedagogy” that awakens us to a network of relationality.

From the context of the Kuils River near Cape Town, South Africa, Nikiwe Solomon and Adrian Van Wyk reckon with the question—whose knowledge really matters?

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

Joe Underhill reflects on the political utility of the language used in academia and the public sphere, and how to translate deeper understandings of the Anthropocene.

In this screening and artist talk, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine discuss their film Homo Urbanus Venetianus,a vibrant tribute to public space.

Bringing the city and the environments of Venice into focus as the basis for historical and comparative studies on global geo-anthropological processes.

Historian Florike Egmond (University of Leiden) gives a keynote lecture about the historic relationship between humans and water on the Dutch river delta.

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?

Voices and atmospheres recorded along the length of the Mississippi River Valley, seeking out the political and spatialized through sound, music, and field recordings.

Riots emerge from voices unheard—reflections on Martin Luther King Jr.’s dictum guide us to sites of uprising and industrial toxicity on Turtle Island, a.k.a. North America.

Voices from the Mississippi Headwaters and Twin Cities share reflections on canoeing, protest and a 100-year history of the region.

Mississippi Multiverse is an immersive film that starts from an embodied sensorial practice to reckon with the ecological impact of petrochemical industries along the river.

What is the sound of the Lower Mississippi, a “superhighway” through which huge proportions of exported goods from the US are shipped every day?

There are uncountable ways to look at a river, yet many of them are invisible in today’s cartographic depictions.

Whatever moment the river might invite us to, it is a thick moment, a moment in motion. Audio piece and notes to the listener.

A brief history of New Orleans’ industrial canal and the risk to life posed by obsolete ideas in an era of planetary change.

The installation The Current presented field studies by artists, scholars, and activists who were involved in the AC project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River.

Artists discuss sturgeons pushed to the edge of extinction and the future of a chemically polluted river near Cape Town.

Nathan Jessee speaks with Louisiana Gulf Coast Tribal leaders about the social and environmental threats they face and their efforts to ensure social and ecological futures.

Taking Venice as a point of departure to collectively reflect on geo-environmental politics in the water city and beyond.

Critical insights from and impressions of the Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta, which took place in New Orleans in November 2019.

Brian Holmes contemplates how our natural surroundings are suffused with the aftermath of colonial trauma and racial exploitation.

On the shared experiences of those who live along the Mississippi in New Orleans and the Yamuna in Delhi, reciprocal relationships with nature, and the importance of listening in the Anthropocene.

On immersive, field-based education and an exploration of the (dis)comforts of an approach Anthropocene River Travelers describe as “being at home-in-the-world.”

A series of flash nonfiction pieces chronicling some of the rogue elements encountered during the Anthropocene River Journey.

Field work undertaken on the Mississippi River dissolves the distinction between field and archive, evidencing not just attempts to alter the river’s flow, but similarly shifting cultural and political dynamics.

Lake Chad is a central feature in the livelihoods and economies of several countries. Local and regional pressures have always been a challenge, but the new stress of diminishing rainfall is deepening this challenge.

In addition to its position as a pillar of New Orleans cuisine, the humble oyster has also taken on another, more troubling role—serving as an indicator of water contamination in the Mississippi River Delta and the Lousiana Gulf.

Treasure Shields Redmond and Eugene B. Redmond are joined by Jennifer Colten to talk about the Mississippi River as a backdrop of life.

What does it mean to be “riverine”? A collage by artist, writer, and activist Shanai Matteson

Jamie Allen’s “river reflection” on the intimate forces, unflappable momentums, and generous flows that accompanied the launch of a river journey.

The models produced by Little River Research & Design convey an acutely material consciousness of the relentless processes of change that shape the Mississippi River.

Abbéy Odunlami and Jared Richardson introduce their individual research projects and discuss Field Station 5’s broader themes. Episode 1 available now!

A multimedia artwork that uncovers the sublime beauty of fossilized forests.

A deep breath in deep time: a call for reinhabiting the Mississippi canebrake. 

Moving from political economy to political ecology: an invitation to get involved.

There is no one correct way to listen to the river; there are multiple listenings, and multiple rivers.

What do the layers of river sedimentation reveal about the human impact on the Mississippi river system?

How did the Mississippi River become both cause and register of anthropocenic changes and what do these changes reveal about the Mississippi’s future?

The entire history of American settlement experienced in one afternoon stroll.

Opening words to the symposium and the Anthropocene River project.

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

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

This project identifies rivers as crucial for investigating representations of the Anthropocene, via the medium of experimental documentary film.

What modes of collecting, representing, and knowing are appropriate to meet the conceptual and practical challenges of the Anthropocene? Which narrative forms and styles can help us to document states of flux and transformation, across multiple scales of space and time?

A project on the ephemeral art of carving water.

Waves form the focus of Andrea Carlson’s Traveler Project, which brings together the world of fluid dynamics with the Ojibwe language to create new artworks.

Over the course of eighty days, this canoe expedition offers an immersive research program on and along the Mississippi River.

This seminar brings concepts of time, layers, and sediment into close contact with the human sciences, the arts, and Pierre Part, a community who live according to the movements of the River.

The Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta synthesized the downstream Mississippi within a week-long field research and educational event at Tulane University, as well as sites in and around New Orleans.

The Anthropocene River School integrates the work of the Anthropocene River Field Stations and transforms the research into an ongoing, collaborative teaching enterprise.

A home-built device travels downstream to explore the limits of digital representation and the possibilities of uncertain knowledge.

The kick-off event draws together many of the essential themes and concerns of the overarching journey from the headwaters to New Orleans for a public gathering.

What travel routes, forms of travel, and narratives are suitable for the new planetary realities?

A narrative-based podcast that discusses how geography determines many people’s relationship to resources, land, and wellbeing.

The art initiative Laboratory for a Radical Suburbia explores human connections to both land and to the environmental impacts of capitalist cycles of extraction, production, and consumption on that land.

In the St. Louis region, memories and meanings of millennia of settlement collide. Anthropocene Vernacular investigates how everyday culture has been cultivated in the midst of social, environmental, economic crises.

On dams, micro worlds and the end of humanity—four short films inspired by the Headwaters field station.

Does the river provide a structure for knowledge in the Anthropocene? The Twin Cities artist in residence dives in to find out.

A multilayered project towards the de-regulation of nature.

This Field Station sets out to engage with the ecologic-economic-technological infrastructures between Kentucky and Illinois and will bring a regionally focused lens to the globally entangled Anthropocene condition.

The stretch of the Mississippi between Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa is marked both by its “natural” and “anthropogenic” origin.

Using artistic underwater recordings, Listening to the Mississippi asks listeners to experience the river through sound.

What is the relation between large-scale agriculture and biome change? An examination of the infrastructure of the monocrop industry in the Midwestern United States.

Five Field Stations along the Mississippi River explore novel ways of reading the dynamic Mississippi landscape.

Essays from members of the AWG and other researchers discussing some of the crucial aspects that make the Mississippi River an icon of global Anthropocene transformations.

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.

Philosopher Etienne Turpin sketches the root problematics faced by the city of Jakarta as exemplified by its land and sea interfaces.

Geologist and oceanographer James Syvitski maps how human modification of the world’s hydrological system continues to accelerate, how deltas are starved of sediment due to dam building, and how wetlands are lost and coasts retreat.

Four artists and scholars confront the catastrophe of global warming as the rising sea literally dissolves the Maldives, and the lives that are lived upon them.

A look into the history of the globalization of knowledge.

Amita Baviskar discusses the long and complex history of struggles surrounding the construction of a gravity dam on the Narmada River in India.

Lake Chad, in the arid and semi-arid Sahel corridors of west Central Africa, represents one of Africa’s greatest life forces. The lake’s water-based, life-supporting services support an integrated small-scale economy made up of agricultural livelihoods, and provide a lifeline to over 30 million people in four countries (Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria).

Do extreme climate events affect people in equal measure? And how do environmental changes intertwine with pre-existing social inequalities?

The low-lying Maldive Islands face the problem of too much water. Melting ice far away is slowly inundating their homeland, posing an existential threat.

Using the Maldives as our (anthropo)scene, we explore how a monolithic and simplistic “We” can be questioned and reframed. Picture Lake Chad as an island of water in the desert and the Maldives surrounded by the rising “blue.”

Unintended consequences and slippages in time—Ele Carpenter, Ayesha Hameed, Hanna Husberg, and Laura McLean discuss “The Free Sea”.

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