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Modeling Collaborative Practices in the Anthropocene

  • Bill Gilbert (author)
Chapter of: Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life(pp. 56–61)

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TitleModeling Collaborative Practices in the Anthropocene
ContributorBill Gilbert (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0014.1.07
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/making-the-geologic-now/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightGilbert, Bill
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2012-12-04
Long abstractIn 1999, the University of New Mexico embarked on an extended experiment in art practice. Over the ensuing twelve years we have developed the Land Arts of the American West program as a model for a place-based education in the arts to prepare our students for the rapidly chang-ing environmental and social context they will enter upon graduation. Our program has developed in a period marked by a dawning awareness that the collective activities of our species have impacted the planet over a sufficient time period to qualify as a geologic epoch, the Anthropocene. With this realization comes a daunting responsibility. The arts must now participate in our collective response and contribute to a change in our narrative as a nation and species if the Anthropocene is to extend for thousands of years into the future. To be successful we are going to need a perspective that encompasses the expanse of plan-etary time, not the fleeting moments of pop culture. In our effort to confront the problems we face, the arts can model a new cooperative/collaborative approach that will supplant the current individualistic paradigm. Our attempts to address the implications of an Anthropo-cene Epoch will require a shared multicultural and interdisciplinary perspective that is based in direct engagement with the physical planet.
Page rangepp. 56–61
Print length6 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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