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Find useful links to Departments within the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences and UCL initiatives related to the Anthropocene.
The images below feature artworks made by UCL artists engaging with the Anthropocene. Click on the artist for further information
Fiona Curran, The Grass Seemed Darker Than Ever (detail), 2016. Commissioned by Kielder Art and Architecture for Kielder Forest, Northumberland.
Simon Faithfull, Still from: 'Re-enactment for a Future Scenario #2: Cape Romano', 2019, HD video, 6min loop.
Rhona Eve Clews, If I eat you, will we both still be OK? (Plant), from the series Odes (PART OF A LARGER QUEST), 2019, multi-screen video installation, Slade School of Fine Art MA/MFA Degree show. Documentation by Holly Buckle.
Eleanor Morgan, Spider Spinning Machine 1810, 2008, etching.
Kat Austen, Coral Empathy Device, 2017, CC-BY-SA 4.0. Video documentation: https://www.katausten.com/portfolio/the-coral-empathy-device/.
Henrietta Simson, Sketch for the Anthropocene, 2015, 21 x 29 cm, collage on graph paper.
Christina Della Giustina, You Are Variations, Version 01 and 02 - Visp vs Vordemwald, audio-video installation, ca. 2 x (12 x 4 x 4 m), Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, CH, December 2011. Video documentation: https://vimeo.com/313811835; https://vimeo.com/265145196.
Hermione Spriggs and Laura Cooper, Concert of a Lure, 2017.
Onya McCausland, sixbells_ScreenShot_1 Six Bells Mine Water Treatment Scheme 51°43 33.56 N 3°07 58.63 W 847m.
Nick Laessing, Plant Orbiter, 2017.
Ram Shergill, Anthropogenic Echinoidea Sympoiesis, 2019, Chromogenic Print, Leica Gallery Los Angeles in collaboration with Jack Irving and Daen Palma Huse.
UCL Departments in the Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences
- Department of Anthropology
- Department of Economics
- Department of Geography
- Department of History
- Department of History of Art
- Institute of Advanced Studies
- Institute of Americas
- Instutute of Archaeology
- Department of Political Science