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Casting Currents, curated by Livia Klein, is an immersion into the porous boundaries between nature, culture, and materiality in the Anthropocene—a time in which human impact has become the pulse of the planet. Rather than treating materials as passive objects, the exhibition draws on posthumanist theories to conjure a speculative environment where materials themselves act as protagonists. By resisting linear narratives of progress or recovery, a fragmented habitat in which materials perform, resist, and reconfigure their own ontology under the weight of planetary collapse is presented.
“The end of the world has already occurred,” writes Timothy Morton, and despite the horrifying message of the fact that we are facing an ecological catastrophe, notions such as “world,” “nature,” and “environment” have ceased to be a significant backdrop against which human action unfolds. Once seen as mere footprints, our actions now resonate through the n…
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Casting Currents, curated by Livia Klein, is an immersion into the porous boundaries between nature, culture, and materiality in the Anthropocene—a time in which human impact has become the pulse of the planet. Rather than treating materials as passive objects, the exhibition draws on posthumanist theories to conjure a speculative environment where materials themselves act as protagonists. By resisting linear narratives of progress or recovery, a fragmented habitat in which materials perform, resist, and reconfigure their own ontology under the weight of planetary collapse is presented.
“The end of the world has already occurred,” writes Timothy Morton, and despite the horrifying message of the fact that we are facing an ecological catastrophe, notions such as “world,” “nature,” and “environment” have ceased to be a significant backdrop against which human action unfolds. Once seen as mere footprints, our actions now resonate through the n…
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