The World to Come Art in the Age of the Anthropocene May 10
The Globe to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene
• Harn Museum of Art at University of Florida
Richard Mosse, Stalemate, 2011. Digital chromogenic print, 48 × 60 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery.
September eighteen, 2018–March 3, 2019
Harn Museum of Art at University of Florida
3259 Hull Road
Gainesville, Florida 32608
United States
www.harn.ufl.edu
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The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida explores an era of rapid, radical and irrevocable ecological change through works of art by 45 international contemporary artists. Curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, the Harn-organized exhibition The World to Come up: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is on view now through March 3, 2019. The fate of our planet is examined through more than 65 works including photography, motion picture, sculpture and mixed media.
While geological epochs are known as products of ho-hum change, the Anthropocene has been characterized by speed. Runaway climate change, rising water, surging population, not-stop extinction and expanding technologies shrink our incoherent sense of space and time. Human bear upon has created a profound and disastrous effect on the Earth. Artists in the exhibition answer by upending the status quo, challenging human mastery over nature and attuning the states to the deep bail betwixt human and not-homo life.
The Earth to Come up unfolds around seven overlapping themes: "Deluge," "Raw Material," "Consumption," "Extinction," "Symbiosis and Multispecies," "Justice" and "Imaginary Futures." Topics range from disaster, environmental devastation and loss to the emergence of new bonds and alliances between humans and not-humans. Also considered is the magnitude of waste product and growing populations, the laws of nature, inequality and protest. Lastly, artists explore the furnishings of engineering and make a telephone call for optimism with new ways of imagining a vibrant futurity for the world to come.
Artists whose piece of work is on view in the exhibition comprehend a rethinking and re-visioning of humanity'due south relationship to nonhuman life. These artists include Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Claudia Andujar, Sammy Baloji, Subhankar Banerjee, Huma Bhabha, Liu Bolin, Edward Burtynsky, Sandra Cinto, Elena Damiani, Dornith Doherty, Charles Gaines, Mishka Henner, Felipe Jácome, Chris Hashemite kingdom of jordan, William Kentridge, Wifredo Lam, Maroesjka Lavigne, Eva Leitolf, Dana Levy, Yao Lu, Pedro Neves Marques, Noelle Stonemason, Mary Mattingly, Gideon Mendel, Ana Mendieta, Kimiyo Mishima, Richard Misrach, Beth Moon, Richard Mosse, Jackie Nickerson, Gabriel Orozco, Trevor Paglen, Abel Rodríguez, Allan Sekula, Taryn Simon, Nicole Half-dozen and Paul Petritsch, Laurencia Strauss, Thomas Struth, Bethany Taylor, Frank Thiel, Sergio Vega, Andrew Yang, and Haegue Yang.
A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition with essays by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Curator of Contemporary Art; Marisol de la Cadena, Professor of Anthropology, Academy of California, Davis; T. J. Demos, Professor of History of Art and Managing director of the Eye for Creative Ecologies at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Natasha Myers, Associate Professor of Anthropology, York Academy; Trevor Paglen, artist, geographer and author; and Joanna Zylinska, Professor of New Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University, London.
The exhibition will travel to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from Apr 27, 2019 to July 28, 2019.
The exhibition is made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, Visit Gainesville, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Part of Enquiry, Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, UF Biodiversity Institute, UF Center for Latin American Studies, UF Water Constitute and UF Section of English Imagining Climate change program with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Gimmicky Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.
Source: https://www.artandeducation.net/announcements/244182/the-world-to-come-art-in-the-age-of-the-anthropocene
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