Blots on the Anthropocene: Micropolitical Interventions With Young People in a University Museum

Rousell, D, Hohti, R, MacLure, M and Chalk, HL (2021) Blots on the Anthropocene: Micropolitical Interventions With Young People in a University Museum. Cultural Studies: Critical Methodologies, 21 (1). pp. 27-40. ISSN 1532-7086

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Abstract

© 2020 SAGE Publications. In this article, we discuss a series of artistic interventions in a university museum co-created by young people, researchers, and museum curators. We focus on the co-development of techniques for disrupting and re-imagining museological spaces and times, while exploring young people’s shifting sense of inheritance in relation to the “Anthropocene” as a particular figuration of the current epoch. Drawing together an eclectic range of sources at the intersections of schizoanalysis, posthumanism, decolonial studies, and surrealism, we argue that young people’s interventions in the museum constitute micropolitical nodes of resistance to the colonial-capitalistic capture of subjectivity that dominates the current epoch.