Category: Exhibits
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Synthetic Totems: Fragments of the Anthropocene
in ExhibitsDongbay creates art to help others reflect, connect, and perceive in the Anthropocene. His Synthetic Totems combine fragments of nature with discarded waste.
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Poetic Encounters Across Borders
Poet Ann Fisher-Wirth collaborates with photographer Wilfried Raussert and a team of translators to interpret street art across the Americas. Together, they illustrate the interconnectedness of people and nature in urban environments.
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Snapshots of the Anthropocene in Iran
in ExhibitsWhat does the Anthropocene look like? Angelica Modabber disentangles the complex layers of memory, ecological change, and identity in contemporary Iranian photography.
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Humanizing Migrants and Miners of Southern Africa
in ExhibitsIn this exhibit, Christopher Conz and Christina Balch use archival materials and art to humanize the stories of migrant mining workers of southern Africa and reflect on the environments in which they live, work, die, and resist.
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The Strange Love of Cuckoos and Currawongs
Kate Judith shares a creative and speculative story through the vertiginous voices of the cuckoo and currawong, which underscore the tension between parasitism and care. The currawong’s caregiving is marked by both sacrifice and survival, while the cuckoo’s actions highlight a demolishing invasive behavior. This form reflects the complex, often painful exchanges that define interspecies…
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Capturing Precarity & Plenty in California’s Central Valley
in ExhibitsThrough this photo exhibit, Steven Haring represents the instabilities of agriculture amid climate uncertainties, as human imposed systems seeking to enhance agricultural productivity test the limits of fluctuating natural systems.
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Imagining National Belonging in American Landscapes
in ExhibitsTomiko Jones embarks on a photographic project exploring deregulated public lands and questioning constructions of national belonging.
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On The Alchemy of Soil
After a long and dirty journey, artist Tory Tepp has found community in the creation of the Sauk County ARK earthwork.
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Visualizing 6,000 Years of Environmental Change
Benjamin Keenan shares how his “Itzan” project translating geochemical data into artwork with digital artist Tim Thomasson can evoke consideration of current environmental crises.
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Exploring Oaxaca’s Peri-Urban Landscape
In this photo essay, Joseph Heathcott captures edge ecologies and life in between at Oaxaca’s urban-rural interface.
