Ingo Kleinert in collaboration with Robin Blau: The Anthropocene Cabinet
The term Anthropocene is now widely used as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate change and the environment - often, if not always - resulting in destructive forces.
The Anthropocene Cabinet takes as its starting point the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, USSR. Recent investigation has shown the existence of life, namely cannibal ants, in the heart of the remaining radioactive waste.
During the period of the Enlightenment in the 18th and 19th centuries, humans explored the world and collected species and plants many of which now reside in museum collections and collector cabinets. It is believed that the five insects: cannibal ants, wasp, cockroach, scorpion and centipede will survive possible destruction and are seen breaking free from the cabinet in which they have been entombed.
The Anthropocene Cabinet is loosely based on 16th and 17th century collector's cabinets.
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