from Rebecca Partridge…

Contemporary art is no stranger to environmental issues, though the question of how artists engage in our ever more pressing crisis of nature is undergoing a fundamental shift. In the wake of the ‘anthropocene’—or ‘the age of man’—a new generation of thought is emerging, which no longer places humanity at the centre but rather re-engages with notions of species interconnectivity, exploring what it might mean to be ‘post-human’.

The Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology (LABAE) describes itself as a ‘multidisciplinary platform for planetary becoming’. Founded by Dea Antonsen and Ida Bencke, LABAE defies categorisation. Neither wholly a curatorial body nor a publishing house, they initiate experimental exhibition formats and work with researchers, writers and artists. Their events kicked off last year with the ‘Transspecies’ assembly in Copenhagen, held in the Dome of Visions, which hosted a series of talks, collaborations, conversations and artworks framed by the drive to establish an ethics of ecological care.

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