Artists Statement

Exhibition. Le Cube Garges, April 27 – May 18

2020
Installation – Book

Inspired by medieval bestiaries, The Anthropocene Bestiary is a compilation of different hybrid creatures produced by our time. Presented on occasion in the form of an installation inspired by the cabinets of curiosities and showcases of natural history museums, these hybrid titles help us to observe, navigate and orient ourselves in the fabric increasingly artificial world. Plastiglomerates, surveillance robot dogs, antenna trees, Sars-Covid – 2, eagles fighting drones, standardized bananas… each of these symptomatic specimens of the post-natural era in which we live allow us to glimpse the future of the beings that will eventually populate our planet.
https://www.bestiaryanthropocene.com

• disnovation.org is a research collective set up in Paris, France, in 2012, whose core members include Maria Roszkowska (pl/fr), Nicolas Maigret (fr), Baruch Gottlieb (ca/de) & Jerome Saint-Clair (fr). They work at the interface between contemporary art, research and hacking, and compose tailor-made teams for each investigation together with academics, activists, engineers, and designers. More specifically their recent artistic provocations seek to empower post growth imaginaries and practices while challenging dominant techno-solutionist ideologies. Their research includes artworks, publications & curation. https://disnovation.org

This project received funding from the MASC-RISE program under grant agreement no. 101007915.