24–26.10.24 TRANSFORMING ANTHROPO(S)CENE: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
With talks by scholars and artists at the Ruhr University Bochum
FROM THURSDAY, 24 OCTOBER 2024 TO SATURDAY, 26 OCTOBER 2024 AT QUARTIERS- HALLE, BOCHUM
The main actor of current transformations is not human, but the Earth itself has become a living stage that interacts with multiple entities. We analyse various forms of agency that create new interconnections and configurations of terrestrial and oceanic actors. We collaborate with interdisciplinary scholars, artists, and students to redefine the concept of space and that of community. We discuss the performativity of sharing, its transformative potential and the relationality of different actors: humans, animals, plants, rocks, oceans, rivers, inanimate objects. We explore the 'entanglement of existence' that manifests itself in the form of extractivist landscapes, broken earths, wastelands, environmental temporalities, terrestrial networks, watery corporealities and many more (more-than-human) scenes.






Quartiershalle in the KoFabrik (Stühmeyerstraße 33, 44787 Bochum)