The Future Contemporary

Inquiries into Visual, Performing, and Media Arts

Introduction

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Abstract

Amid contested debates over the proposed Anthropocene epoch, artistic practices have emerged as vital mediums for exploration, response, and denunciation. In this terrain where knowledge produced by the humanities, social sciences, and geosciences converge, the arts stimulate questioning of humanity’s centrality within planetary ecosystems. Going beyond merely reflecting conditions, these practices actively reshape shared epistemological and ontological coordinates in an era of existential crisis, provide means to denounce injustices wrought by environmental degradation, and disrupt boundaries, opening spaces to cultivate emergent more-than-human epistemes.


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Submitted: Nov. 17, 2023 | Published Dec. 14, 2023 | Language: en

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