‘Welcome to the Neganthropocene’: Artistic practices of healing the Anthropocene in Matterlurgy’s Air Morphologies

This article explores the implications of Bernard Stiegler’s concept of the Neganthropocene, coined to reconfigure the entropic and apocalyptic conditions of the Anthropocene, for the artistic project Air Morphologies. Created by a London-based duo, Matterlurgy, the interactive Virtual Reality resea...

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Published in:Technoetic arts : a journal of speculative research 2022-07, Vol.20 (1-2), p.111-124
Main Author: Stępień Justyna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air pollution
Geological time
Interactive art
Materialism
Stiegler, Bernard
Virtual reality
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Summary:This article explores the implications of Bernard Stiegler’s concept of the Neganthropocene, coined to reconfigure the entropic and apocalyptic conditions of the Anthropocene, for the artistic project Air Morphologies. Created by a London-based duo, Matterlurgy, the interactive Virtual Reality research project investigates the materiality and composition of air pollution particles, their causes, effects and morphological agency. Matterlurgy’s project, which locates viewers in the Virtual Reality environment and engages them in participatory activities, becomes a techno-ethical practice of nurturing ways to think and care for the more-than-human world essentially transformed and dominated by the anthropogenic factors. The artistic practice indicates that we need to think collectively, not about but with nature, technology, history, objects and theories. As the article shows, with such strategies, we will be able to acknowledge more-than-human interconnections, human-nature-technics connections and rework the conventional patterns of knowledge production to heal the adverse outcomes of the Anthropocene.
ISSN:1477-965X
1758-9533
DOI:10.1386/tear_00085_1