Presentation Research

Q: “Beyond the stratigraphic discussion, the Anthropocene can be felt as a call to re-imagine the human through biology and geology” (Davis & Turpin 2015: p.20). Discuss how two artworks have ‘re-imagined the human’ in this context. 

1. Jae Rhim Lee, Infinity Burial Suit, 2011

Think of the relationship between body and environment

How the Mushroom Death Suit Will Change the Way We Die

Talk: Jae Rhim Lee: Mushroom Burial Suit

mushroom-burial-suit

“Jae Rhim Lee's work challenges the boundaries prescribed by society and 
culture between self and other by proposing unorthodox relationships for the 
mind/body/self.” — MIT

2. What is the Anthropocene

Reading/text

3. Caspar David Friedrich, The Sea of Ice, 1823-24

wild Nature as a mirror to the psyche of the individual artist turmoil

4. Pinar Yoldaş

An Ecosystem of Excess is a deeply researched, well thought out exhibition. In a world that relies on its oceans to function, activist art like this is a means to make people pay attention. The sad vision of a future that requires adaptation to toxins instead of cleaning them up suggests that many species won't make it, and much of the ocean’s biodiversity will be lost. Pinar Yoldas brings a provoking an urgent subject to light in a scientific and strangely captivating way. It leaves the viewer unsettled, yet oddly comforted by the resilience of life.

5. Reading

‘Introduction’ to H. Davis & E. Turpin (2015) Art in the Anthropocene. London: Open Humanities Press. 

Reference:

 what-is-the-anthropocene.html

how-the-mushroom-death-suit-will-change-the-way-we-die-a52f486dc816

an-ecosystem-of-excess

eco-visionaries-ra-design-exhibition

mushroom-burial-suit.htm

jae_rhim_lee

the-anthropocene-project-captures-humanitys-indelible-mark-on-the-planet

anthropocene-the-human-epoch-review.html

Mini presentation: 2 min describing the q & theory context
2 min Describe analysing the artwork
2 min the other artwork
4  min situating and comparing/ contrasting artworks to theory and question