Convenors: Conference 'The Return of the Earth. Ecologising art history in the Anthropocene', auditorium of the CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, 15 November 2017.

Programme

4:30—5:30pm
Keynote by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, science historian and co-author of "The Shock of the Anthropocene" (Verso, 2016)
5:30—5:45pm
Break
5:45—6:45pm
Conversation between the artists Xavier Ribas and Ângela Ferreira
6:45—7:45pm
Discussion convened by Latitudes

Free attendance. Simultaneous translation English/French.

The work of many of the artists in the exhibition '4.543 billion. The matter of matter' explores the shared history of human activities and Earth systems. Yet this comes with a critical and political inflexion of the universalizing notion of the Anthropocene, the proposed geological ‘epoch of humanity’ that would cast all of the mankind as being responsible for the alarming damage caused by modernising and capitalising nature...continue reading

Programmed in the context of the group exhibition '4.543 billion. The matter of matter' (on view until 7 January 2018), at the CAPC musée d’art contemporain Bordeaux. Curated by Latitudes.

Curators: '4.543 billion. The matter of matter', CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, on view until January 7, 2018.

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With contributions from more than 30 artists, '4.543 billion. The matter of matter' is an exhibition that addresses works of art, collections and cultural histories in relation to ecological processes and a geological scale of time.

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