Marder's original treatise paints a portrait of the Anthropocene as a global dump which wreaks havoc, causing disease and degrading our sensation, perception, and thinking, so that nuance is lost and ideas are reduced to soundbites in chains of free association. Trends such as microplastics in water, airborne toxins, topsoil degradation, and dangerous levels of carbon dioxide have upset the delicate ecological balance that has until now been sustaining life on the planet. Every day, scientific studies, media reports, and first-hand accounts of the rapidly deteriorating state of the environment hit us with a growing and disconcerting force. Music: Joseph Schiano di Lombo.Ranging across philosophy, theology, ecology, psychology, and art, in Dump Philosophy Michael Marder argues that the earth, along with everything that lives and thinks on it, is at an advanced stage of being converted into a dump for industrial output and its by-products feeding consumerism and its excesses. Programme coordinator: Stefano Vendramin. 📷 Installation view: Ernesto Neto - Ultimatum, Galerie Max Hetzler, 2022 © Nicolas Brasseur Instagram & Facebook : #CreatorsClimateEmergency 👉 Subscribe to the newsletter to hear about new episodes: Stefano Vendramin is coordinator of the Fondation Thalie programme Creators facing the Climate Emergency, as well as an independent curator specialised in art related to the environment. Her curatorial practice focuses on evolutionary proposals integrating art, ancestral knowledge, applied sustainability and new technologies, culminating in new ways of creating and experiencing art. The conversation is co-moderated by Claudia Paetzold and Stefano Vendramin.Ĭlaudia Paetzold is a London and Paris based advisor and curator. He is the author of numerous scientific articles and monographs, including Plant-Thinking (2013) The Philosopher’s Plant (2014) Dust (2016), Green Mass (2021) and Philosophy for Passengers (2022). His writings span the fields of ecological theory, phenomenology, and political thought. Michael Marder is a Canadian philosopher and research professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) in Spain. He is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Galerie Max Hetzler, galería Elba Benitez, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel and Goodman Gallery. Neto was featured in the 57th Venice Biennial ‘Viva Arte Viva’ (2017). The unconventional choice of materials, the simultaneity of internal and external structures, the contrast between the organic and the mechanical, and the qualities of sensuality and tactility, are all deeply inherent to the artist’s practice.

Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto’s installations immerse the viewer in colours, fragrances and sounds, redefining the boundaries between the artwork and the audience and simultaneously serving as models for redefining social environments.

Dust by Michael Marder