The talk ‘Artistic approaches to the echoes of fossil fuels’

Fossil fuel use is essential to the anthropocene. In this presentation artist Kat Austen will discuss two artworks that address the topic of fossil fuel legacies. In the context of the climate crisis, Stranger to the Trees looks at microplastic, themselves a product of fossil fuel-intensive industrial processes, and their coexistence with trees in forests as carbon sinks. This Land is not Mine looks at the postextractive landscape of Lusatia as the region transitions from brown coal mining towards sustainability. Leveraging diverse methods including DIY science, acoustic ecologies and new material studies, Austen creates multimedia works that develop aesthetics of sustainability.

25 May 2021
17:00 – 18:30 CEST
The event is free

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Organiser:
UCL Anthropocene
anthropocene@ucl.ac.uk

Picture credit: Roger Pimenta

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