NOTES Journal Issue 6 »The Anthropocene«

One of the questions we posed in NOTES Issue 1 touched on our planet’s environment and its changing climate: we wondered what a practice that grapples with these questions would look like? In Issue 2, we commissioned an essay that mapped international practices in relation to the Anthropocene. In this 6th issue we are dedicating 64 pages to this important subject. Our opening image by Jen Wilcox shows an abandoned digger on the shores of the western Isle of Tiree (2013). Standing like a dinosaur against the horizon, the digger bears witness to an arrogant culture of waste, at a time where every day brings another announcement of humanity’s shattering impact on all earthly beings, as well as on the geological condition of the globe itself. This September (only) mainstream media has reported that 200 different species go extinct every day; plastic irretrievably has entered the fossil record and rainforests in Brazil are despite their importance for the world’s oxygen production burning due to logging and industrial farming. It’s hard to say for certain what role art can have in such a troubled time, but we believe narratives will have a huge importance to the directions the world will take in these crucial years ahead of us.

Contributing artists and writers:
Ane Lopez Sean Patrick Campbell, Myles Painter, Maria Sledmere, Aase Goldsmith, Anna Bokström, Eyes as Big as Plates ( Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen), Jen Wilcox, Joanna Pocock, Nina Bacos

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