Field Stations
Over the course of a year, five regional zones have been acting as Field Stations where international and local scholars, artists, and activists research pressing concerns at various sites along the river. Each Field Station applies a multiplicity of varied methodological approaches to each locale. In an attempt to tie planetary shifts to local issues, regionally specific subprojects, publication programs, public events, and community initiatives explore novel ways of reading the dynamic Mississippi landscape. Each Field Station with its various manifestations and localized research inquiries takes on a range of key themes of the overall Mississippi. An Anthropocene River project—from hydrology, agriculture and settler colonialism to commerce, extraction, and ecological degradation—with the objective to turn legible the upstream and downstream entanglements that shape the river basin.
- projectMorgan Adamson, Mark Borrello, Bruce Braun, Andrea Carlson, Jen Caruso, Jodi Enos-Berlage, Tia-Simone Gardner, Monica Moses Haller, Jane Hawley, Simi Kang, Anya Kaplan-Seem, John Kim, Boris Oicherman, Roopali Phadke, Max Ritts, Daniela Sandler, Jenny Schmid, Joe Underhill, Michael Winikoff, Simona Zappas
Field Station 1: Sediment, Settlement, Sentiment
The stretch of the Mississippi between Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa is marked both by its “natural” and “anthropogenic” origin.
Case Study, Field Work, Field Study, Storytelling, Sensing, Sedimentation, Local knowledge, Capitalism, Water, Engineering, Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Governance, Settler Colonialism, Violence, Environmental Justice
- projectNicholas Brown, Ryan Griffis, Sarah Kanouse
Field Station 2: Anthropocene Drift
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.
Field Study, Field Work, Agriculture, Landscape, Water, Capitalism, Commodities, Anthropology, Local knowledge, Ecology, History, Violence, Sustainability, Topography, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice
- projectJennifer Colten, Matthew Fluharty, Derek Hoeferlin, Gavin Kroeber, James McAnally, Natalie Mueller, Lynn Peemoeller, Treasure Shields Redmond, Jesse Vogler
Field Station 3: Anthropocene Vernacular
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.
Field Study, Field Work, Storytelling, Water, Infrastructure, Urbanism, Deep time, Time, History, Anthropology, Local knowledge, Capitalism, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Agriculture, Epistemology, Environmental Justice, Industrialization
- projectKayla Anderson, Sara Black, Jeremy Bolen, Beate Geissler, Amber Ginsburg, Brian Holmes, Jenny Kendler, Brian Kirkbride, Sarah Lewison, Marlena Novak, Claire Pentecost, Oliver Sann, Michael Swierz, Andrew Yang, Jay Alan Yim
Field Station 4: Confluence Ecologies
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.
Field Work, Mapping, Engineering, Water, Habits, Capitalism, Ecology, Socio-ecological design, Human-animal relations, Energy, Radioactivity, Waste, Geo-engineering, Industrialization
- projectEllie Irons, Maya Kóvskaya, Abbéy Odunlami, Jared Richardson, Hannah Schaedler, Montana Torrey, Tamara Becerra Valdez
Field Station 5: Place, Space & Relations of Belongings
The Upper Delta region is shaped by environmental forces of evolving multiracial identities and inherently global economic forces. Field Station 5 explores the spatial dynamics which formed the contemporary identity of this region.
Field Study, Field Work, Intervention, Storytelling, Commodities, Capitalism, Spatial, History, Economy, Embodiment, Knowledge infrastructure, Race, Violence, Plantation, Environmental Justice
