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Visualizing the Anthropocene

Conversations on Photography: Visualizing the Anthropocene

Facilitated by Melinda Hurst Frye
​Spring 2022
Every other week from April 5 - May 17, 2022 | Tuesdays 6-8pm (Pacific Time)
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Session 3 Conversation (we missed you NY!)
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Welcome! Thank you for joining our series of discussions on selected readings around conservation, ecology, and where the notion of the climate merges with artistic intent. While I will wear the hat of conversation facilitator, our sessions not lectures rather discussions, ideally with your voice. Please bring your thoughts, opinions, research, and/or discoveries to our space where we may learn from you as well as the materials.

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Conversation one & Legacy

Welcome to our first conversation! Please read the listed readings and view the artists prior to our session. As you discover additional articles, artists, and threads, please post them above in our padlet for all to see!
READINGS (& some audio)
  1. Prologue, excerpt from The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
  2. When the Earth Started to Sing by David Haskell (audio)
  3. Human-Driven Evolution Is a Hallmark of the Anthropocene by Lizzie Wade (online article)
  4. The Understory, excerpt from Underland by Robert Macfarlane (online article, a better option than my pdf skills!)
  5. Speaking the Anthropocene; Interview with Robert Macfarlane (audio & transcript)
  6. The Lascaux Cave Paintings, excerpt from The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
  7. Art Beyond Us, excerpt from The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
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ARTISTS TO CONSIDER
Pablo López Luz
Mandy Barker
DM Witman / Lenscratch
Thomas Jackson / Emergent Behavior
Jamie Stillings
​BARBARA CIUREJ & LINDSAY LOCHMAN
Edward Burtynsky

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Conversation Prompt
​How do we think about legacy in the context of geological periods? The Anthropocene is defined by our impact, the chemicals we have disseminated, and even the chicken bones we have sprinkled throughout the world. Our social, cultural, and political uses of the flora and fauna leave traces of our actions and us in the environment, the soil, and the air. What will the legacy of the Anthropocene be? How are artists working through these ideas?


Conversation two & Place

fReadings
(If time is an issue, I suggest choosing at least 3 of the readings below. Enjoy!)

This Land Was Made by Ama Codjoe
A Very Warm Mountain by Ursula Le Guin, excerpt from Bedrock
​Excerpt from One Square Inch of Silence By Gordon Hempton
Excerpt from Nature Obscura by Kelly Brenner
Excerpts from The Forest Unseen by David George Haskell
Listening to Water by Kimmerer from Forest Under Story
Artists to Consider
Carrie Mae Weems/Slave Coast
Carrie Mae Weems/Kitchen Table
Kirk Crippens & Gretchen Lemaistre/Live Burls
Jeff Rich
Kelda Van Patten (Fern Mania made at Sitka Ctr for Art & Ecology)
Eirik Johnson/Road to Nowhere
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Lori Nix & Kathleen Gerber/Unnatural History
​Hiroshi Sugimoto
Barbara Bosworth
Emmet Gowin & Mt. Saint Hellens​
Walker Evans/Penny Studio
Conversation Prompt
How might place inform the artist's work? Are there artists that come to mind that use place as a subject, specifically or generally or metaphorically?
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Conversation three & Trees/fungi

Readings & Materials
  1. Finding the Mother Tree / Simard
  2. Entangled Life / Sheldrake
  3. How I Became a Tree / Roy
  4. What a Plant Knows / Chamovitz
Artists to Consider (more to be shared during conversation three)
Terry Evans
Jackie Heitchue

**Please bring any and all artists that come to mind during your reading and research**
Additional Readings & Materials (Prioritized top top bottom, I just couldn't keep them to myself)
Old Growth / Orion
Fungipedia / Millman
Overstory / Powers
Mushroom / Worth
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Video: ON TREES: A Conversation with Peter Wohlleben, Jessica J. Lee, and Sumana Roy

Conversation Prompt
How (& who) are you finding art/artists working with the small (fungi) and the large (trees) and the large?  How are you finding artists adopt the metaphors of connectivity into their work? What other metaphors or documentary studies are you coming across in your reading and researching of art and photography? Can you share artists to help us understand your thoughts?

Conversation four & Climate

Readings
All We Can Save
Generation Dread
A field Guide to Climate Anxiety
Don't Even think about it
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Artists to consider
​
Sant Khalsa
​Rainey Straus

Please come to our session with artists that you find compelling relating to the topic of climate, or the broader net of the Anthropocene
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Sant Khalsa, Western Waters
Conversation Prompt
Climate change is a challenging topic with much emotion and anxiety, thus charged view points and stances. Can artists navigate this terrain in a way to seed advocacy, change, and/or educate.  How are the artists that you are finding approaching making work about the varied climate concerns and responses? 
Melinda Hurst Frye
206-601-2881 | melinda@mhurstfrye.com 
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For print inquiries, please email Judith Rinehart at ​judith@jrinehartgallery.com
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