The Current
On display at HKW
2020, Mon, Oct 26 — 2020, Sun, Nov 01
(early closure because of Covid-19)
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AN AESTHETICS OF DISPLACEMENT
(Written as an introduction to the Anthropocene Film Residency. Read more about the project on the Anthropocene Curriculum website.) 1 Looking down on St. Anthony Falls from the walls of the lock and dam infrastructure, one can marvel at this feat of technical engineering. The river runs over an artificial concrete platform creating the Falls.
November 23, 2019 – It’s a wrap. A three month long canoe paddle down the Mississippi River from headwaters to the Gulf to research its anthropogenic history. https://anthropocene-curriculum.org/project/mississippi/anthropocene-river-journey Mississippi. An Anthropocene River makes the iconic landscape of the Mississippi River Valley legible as a critical zone of habitation and long-term interaction between humans and the
Data Sensing the Mississippi (proposal)
https://github.com/jkim5/miss-canoe The Anthropocene highlights limitations in existing frameworksfor data collection and analysis with the suggestion that researchers have run up against the limits of the knowable. This has been revealed in a number of ways: an inadequacy in existing techniques to analyze a changing and uncertain future, challenges to the way in which researchers frame
Dam, Lock, Groyne: The Temporal Architecture of the Mississippi River
Over the last few years, I have traveled up and down the river to visit the Upper Mississippi’s 29 locks and dams in a study of its varied engineered structures and earthworks. The three sculptures created for the film reference the river’s existing infrastructure: a dam or levee, a lock, and a groyne. Though there
Research website for ongoing work on the Mississippi. An Anthropocene River project. It provides tools for documenting and archiving ourresearch on the project. https://anthropocene-curriculum.org/
Futures North Selected for New Public Art Commission in Minneapolis
Futures North has been selected in a national RFP process for a new public art commission in Minneapolis: an artistic glass pattern for the city’s New Public Service Building. The building, currently under construction adjacent to City Hall Plaza, is designed by the team of MSR and Henning Larsen and is being constructed by M.A.
