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The Anthropocene Project
10.01.2013 - 31.12.2014
Our notion of nature is now out of date. Humanity forms nature. This is the core premise of the Anthropocene thesis, announcing a paradigm shift in the natural sciences as well as providing new models for culture, politics, and everyday life. In a two-year project, HKW will explore the hypothesis’ manifold implications for the sciences and arts.
| The “Anthropocene” is the new geological “age of mankind” as proposed by the Earth sciences. Popularized by Nobel Prize winner Paul J. Crutzen around the turn of the millenium, the term now stands for one of the most trailblazing scientific concepts of the present. The transdisciplinary Anthropocene Project explores this concept, using research and presentation methods from the arts and sciences. If the opposition between humanity and nature is now suspended, how do we change our perspectives and perception? Is it still possible to think in concepts like “artificial” and “natural?” What does it mean for our anthropocentric understanding and our future if nature is man-made? What impact does the notion of global changes has on political decision-making? Which image of humanity appears if nature is shaped by mankind? An Opening .... as if it were human 10. - 13.1.2013 Dialogues, narrative islands, keynotes, artistic interventions, lecture performances, roundtables, and a research forum. More... UNMENSCHLICHE MUSIK Compositions by Machines, Animals, and Chance 21. - 24.2.2013 Concerts, performances, installations, films, conversations, game shows More... THE WHOLE EARTH California and the Disappearance of the Outside 26.4. - 1.7.2013 Opening 25.4. Exhibition, Conference More... ANTHROPOCENE OBSERVATORY Documentation, Films, Exhibition 26.4. - 26.8.2013 More... BÖSE MUSIK 24. - 27.10.2013 Concerts, performances, installations, films, conversations, game shows More... “The Anthropocene Project” is an initiative of Haus der Kulturen der Welt in cooperation with the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Deutsches Museum, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam. |
