- Jamie Allen
- Jeremy Bolen
- Louise Carver
- Andrew Gustin
- Clémence Hallé
- Sarrita Hunn
- Nina Jäger
- Lital Khaikin
- James McAnally
- Aaron Richmond
- Catherine Russell
Temporary continent.
Temporary continent. maps the unstable tributaries of contributions, reflections, and media arising from Mississippi. An Anthropocene River and its research procession. Landmasses, carved out by margins, borders, and rifts, are understood to be provisional and fleeting—continents, but temporary—be they political, social, or tectonic. The project creates varied tributaries of contributions, reflections, and media arising through a collaboration between two experimental publishing collectives, continent. and Temporary Art Review, both concerned with the amplification, modulation, and circulation of community voices on both sides of the Atlantic, and beyond.
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- projectJamie Allen, Louise Carver, Duncan Evennou, Clémence Hallé, Sarrita Hunn, Nina Jäger, James McAnally, Anne-Sophie Milon, Temporary continent., Benoît Verjat
(un)mutable channels
Voices and atmospheres recorded along the length of the Mississippi River Valley, seeking out the political and spatialized through sound, music, and field recordings.
Archiving, Field Work, Conversation, Storytelling, Sound, Settler Colonialism, Pollution, Race, Water, Inequality, River journey
- contributionJamie Allen, Temporary continent.
Head Waters at the Headwaters
The Mississippi’s touristically designated “source” remains a fixture on maps of North American territory and collective cultural consciousness, as this text, video, and audio post explores.
Experiment, Reflection, Storytelling, Sound, Aesthetics, Knowledge production, Media
- contributionJamie Allen, Temporary continent.
Good River, Bad River, Little River, Big River
Through a series of conversations Temporary continent. track the different guises the Mississippi has taken, interviewing those who live and work with the river.
Experiment, Reflection, Storytelling, Sound, Aesthetics, Knowledge production, Media
- contributionLouise Carver, Temporary continent.
When Doves Cry: Project Sweetie Pie
Temporary continent. on how the windows of “opportunity” that speculation focused on Minneapolis’ riverside has brought forth can also be understood as a source of hope in terms of environmental justice.
Reflection, Storytelling, Knowledge production, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Engagement
- contributionLouise Carver, Temporary continent.
Mater and Mattering the Mississippi: Mother River and Mother Tongues
Honing in on the “sentiment” that acts as one of the focuses of Field Station 1, in this text, Louise Carver for Temporary continent. considers how the Mississippi River can be read as an embodiment of matrilineal flow.
Film, Storytelling, Reflection, Biodiversity, Ecology, Sedimentation, Care
- contributionRegan Golden, Temporary continent.
Immersion from the Observation Deck
Regan Golden proposes the observation deck at the Visitor Center of St. Anthony as a space for thinking about one’s relationship with—and detachment from—landscape.
Sensing, Reflection, Field Work, Engineering, Infrastructure, Human-environment relations, Urbanism
- contributionJamie Allen, Temporary continent.
Faith, Family, Farming
Tracing the role folklore has played—and continues to play—in the quantification and gridification of American landscapes, and the harvesting of worth of all kinds
Field Work, Storytelling, Conversation, Agriculture, Capitalism, History, System
- contributionJamie Allen, Temporary continent.
Pictured Journeys, Experiences of Descriptions: Tracing ways down the Mississippi
On the privilege of the storyteller and making visible the various contradictions inherent within efforts to bridge gaps and communicate “what happened” during the Anthropocene River Journey.
Storytelling, Reflection, Field Work, Human-environment relations, Imaginary, Knowledge production, Media
- contributionAaron Richmond, Temporary continent.
Fanning Comfort
A conversation on how the object of the punkah fan speaks to histories of both subjugation and liberation, and how we might relate such narratives to contemporary climate injustice.
Conversation, Case Study, Intervention, Plantation, Slavery, Environmental Justice, Human-environment relations, Inequality
- contributionLouise Carver, Temporary continent.
Lands, Legitimacy, and Lines of Trust
How lines of trust—and their ruptures—shape the affective and physical dimensions of both land and territory.
Field Work, Engagement, Conversation, History, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights
- contributionTemporary continent., Andrew Yang
The Possibility of All Species in an “All Species Parade”
The annual “All Species Puppet Parade” in Carbondale prompts Andrew Yang to contemplate just how all-encompassing the phrase really is.
Field Work, Storytelling, Case Study, Ecology, Species, Human-animal relations, Biodiversity
- contributionTemporary continent., Andrew Yang
Defensive Ecologies: Extracting Asian Carp from the Illinois River
A welcome service laborer turned invasive pest in the Mississippi River, Asian Carp are subject to a variety of efforts to exert control upon their spread and attempts to extract them from the Illinois River.
Field Work, Case Study, Ecology, Biodiversity, Human-animal relations
- contributionTemporary continent., Andrew Yang
“What on Earth”: Confluences in the planetary metabolism
Field Station 4 contributor Andrew Yang elucidates on the reasons for taking its title, “Confluence Ecologies,” as a lens through which to apprehend the Anthropocene
Field Work, Storytelling, Mapping, Commodities, Extraction, History, Capitalism, Scale
- contributionSarah Kanouse, Temporary continent.
Maa Wákąčąk: Sacred Earth in the Anthropocene
Sarah Kanouse recounts Maa Wákąčąk’s histories of conservation and conquest are anything but “past,” and continue to overlap and exert anthropocenic influence on this sacred earth.
Field Work, Conversation, Engagement, Complexity, Ecology, Extraction, Indigenous Rights, Waste
- contributionLital Khaikin, Temporary continent.
Acquiring and Optimizing Sustainable Relationships for Good Solid Cash Flow Streams. Or, Speaking with Plants.
On the connections between language and landscape, as well the disconnections that can occur when the former is used to frame intentions towards the latter.
Reflection, Conversation, Care, Capitalism, Environmental Justice, Human-environment relations
- contributionAndrew Gustin, Temporary continent.
Enter Anthropocene: Searching for signal in New Orleans
Despite this quest to identify a formally recognized boundary, perhaps uncertainty is the most effective means of furthering societal recognition of the complexities of human impact.
Conversation, Reflection, Field Work, Stratigraphy, Deep time, Complexity, Human-environment relations, Sedimentation
- contributionClémence Hallé, Temporary continent.
Fieldwork Matters
Clémence Hallé ruminates on the extractive tendencies of knowledge production, which can only be countered through mutual reciprocity.
Reflection, Extraction, Knowledge production, Inequality
- contributionJeremy Bolen, Temporary continent.
Time Out Of Mind
Jeremy Bolen traces the various human interventions that have shaped Cache River Valley in Southern Illinois, asking what can be learned from this landscape.
Conversation, Engagement, Sound, Ecology, Human-environment relations, Engineering, Adaptation
Credits
Temporary continent. comprises the research and editorial energies of Sarrita Hunn, James McAnally, Lukas Ley, Aaron Richmond, Louise Carver, Paul Boshears, Isaac Linder, Nina Jäger, and Jamie Allen. Aggregations and responses are coordinated by continent. and Temporary Art Review, as the Temporary continent. project.
