Learning from Landscapes for the Post-Anthropocene
There is something captivating about destruction on an epic scale. The horror of it draws the eye and ear, pulling focus. Looking out across acres of scarred earth at the open cast lignite mine of Janschwalde near Cottbus / Chóśebuz in Lausitz (Lusatia in English) by the German-Polish border, the sheer magnitude of the anthropogenic change visited on the landscape is magnificent and catastrophic.
Tailings, Unconventional: Sedimented Horizons for More Equitable Energy Futures
Weaving together a series of satellite images of the Athabasca oil sands each year from 1984 to 2016 as a kind of slideshow, the video documents the spread of activities by the agents and architects of Canada’s fossil economy over this thirty-two-year period.