Over the Levee, Under the Plow: An experiential curriculum
The collaborative project Over the Levee, Under the Plow: An Experiential Curriculum provides an adaptable tool for reflection and becoming responsible guests in a multitude of social and ecological contexts. A set of loosely defined guidebooks collectively titled Field Guides to the Anthropocene Drift assembles images, texts, maps, and other information, around key themes and locations in the lands commonly referred to as the Upper-Midwest of the United States. Each guide is accompanied by a set of exercises, reflective prompts, and questions that form an experiential curriculum inspired by the lands and lifeways the artist-authors find themselves in, and where they occupy identities assigned privilege: non-disabled, cis-gendered, white-settler.
- projectRozalinda Borcilă, Nicholas Brown
Meskonsing-Kansan
Considering Indigenous land and the (colonial) Anthropocene in the territory between the Wisconsin and Kansas rivers and glaciations.
Field Work, Indigenous Rights, Glaciation, Colonialism
- projectSam Muñoz, Heather Parrish
Shaped by Rivers
Exploring the reciprocal relationship between people, rivers, and the landscape, focusing on the unique setting of the Driftless Area of the Upper Mississippi region.
Field Work, Human-environment relations, Agriculture, Naturecultures
- projectCorinne Teed
Amongst Relatives
We are permeable beings and perpetually affected by our changing ecosystems. This field guide and accompanying exercises guide us into an embodied present.
Conversation, Field Work, Settler Colonialism, Agriculture, Indigenous Rights
- projectSarah Kanouse
Beyond Property
Exploring the evolution of the “ownership model” of property as a technology of the colonial Anthropocene and considering alternative possibilities.
Field Work, Settler Colonialism, Human-environment relations
- projectRyan Griffis
After Extraction
Combining creative nonfiction, montage-based images, and intuitive exercises to depict a partial history of extractive land use in Central Illinois.
Field Work, Settler Colonialism, Landscape
