How to talk about the Anthropocene? Context

How to talk about the Anthropocene?

This project is informed by the discourses arising from the geological construct of the Anthropocene. This term “denote(s) the present time interval, in which many geologically significant conditions and processes are profoundly altered by human activities.”(Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy 2016 ).

However, the construct of the Anthropocene is ambiguous. Whilst humankind has engineered deep changes, the earth will continue “indifferently “with or without us (Macfarlane, Guardian online April 2016).

How to talk about the Anthropocene is a project comprising of three sequences:

- How to talk about the Anthropocene-the video, includes a recorded poem. I emailed the piece to my local community inviting them to talk about the Anthropocene.

- Where are you?, this interactive installation, includes enhanced rowing garden chairs, a video entitled Water, and a transformed sound track of God Save the Queen. The latter is controversial and might not be suitable for all.

- A ramble along Red Brook, is an installation including a video and an acapella song entitled We all live in the Anthropocene. The song is a collaboration between two members of Hereford Fire Choir and two inexperienced singers, including myself. The lyrics are inspired from verbatim material adapted to popular English tunes.