Planetary Practices / Knowledge Cultures

In the Anthropocene, the Earth has become an artifact of human culture. In such a condition, this transformed reality requires new knowledge cultures to collectively interpret and engage with the complex planetary entanglements, interweaving practices across the arts, sciences, humanities, and activism. The UIC AL will provide a germinal home for such new, collaborative modes of expression, critique, and commentary. The hope is that the lab can tie together the diverse ways in which a plurality of people are responding to this new condition, reframing its imperatives, and creating new knowledge cultures that allow reflecting and acting upon it.

Guests: Carlina Rossée, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, John Kim, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, Thomas Turnbull, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, Keynote Lecture by Braden Allenby, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy, and the School of Art and Art History, UIC. This program is also supported by a Humanities Innovation Award from the UIC Institute for the Humanities.

Art and Exhibition Hall, 400 S. Peoria St. Chicago IL 60607, Great Space + Gallery 400 Lecture Hall