Critique of the Anthropocene expressed in Contemporary Art from 2010 to today.
The research project explores the processes of cultural response on environmental practices through the main forms of artistic practices. The work mainly examines the critical methodology of the Anthropocene. The research arrangements envisaged in the study explore and identify the specificity of artistic practices critical of the Anthropocene in Contemporary Art from the 2010s to the present, as well as a detailed analysis of the works of contemporary artists who reflect this concept in their work. The aim of the research is to detect the specificity of the new methods of artistic practices that allow contemporary artists to act as interlocutors and mediators in the network of ecological communication. The theoretical basis is formed by the study of the philosophical concepts of Posthumanism with the criticism of the Anthropocene. The following philosophical concepts are taken as a basis: Object-Oriented Ontology1 (OOO) by Graham Harman, Actor-Network Theory2 (ANT) by Bruno Latour, Postanthropocentric concept by Rosi Braidotti, works by Timothy Morton, Donna Haraway, Philippe Descola, Cary Wolfe and Erica Fudge. These philosophers address art in their writings as an important visual mediator that translates the ideas of posthumanism and engages society in the problematic field under consideration. The practical part of the research includes: the analysis of exhibitions and artistic practices, of the representative techniques, of the ways in which the works interact with the exhibition space, of the specificity of the artists' concepts and of determining the degree of influence of Art, which criticizes the Anthropocene on contemporary society. In its development, it aims to apply the methods of the history of art as a research tool, which provide for the study of cultural and artistic phenomena, or comparative and historical analysis with its main forms: comparative analysis; historical and typological; historical-artistic analysis of works of art; methodology based on the concepts of Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) by Harman and Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) by Latour.
1 Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) is based on the idea of overcoming Anthropocentrism and believes that whatever object is mutually autonomous, the definition of object should be broadened to include other things that are traditionally not considered as objects.
2 Actor–network theory (ANT) considers all objects, including non-human ones, as agents in social relations.
