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  • Field Station 4 and Confluence Ecologies, 2019

    Field Station 4 and Confluence Ecologies, 2019

    Field Station 4 and Confluence Ecologies, 2019Mississippi. An Anthropocene River, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL; Carbondale Community Arts, Carbondale Community Arts; Various sites in the Cache River region of Southern Illinois; Ferne Clyffe State Park, Goreville, IL; Shawnee National Forest, Herod, IL.   Field Station 4 and the Confluence Ecologies exhibition included several programs developed…

  • Carboniferous Walk-About-It, 2019

    Carboniferous Walk-About-It, 2019

    Carboniferous Walk-About-It, 2019Ferne Clyffe State Park, Goreville, ILField Station 4: Mississippi. An Anthropocene River As part of Field Station 4, the Carboniferous Walk-About-It, was an example of one of Deep Time Chicago’s regular strategies, acknowledging that the Anthropocene calls for first person science, where we may derive abstract theorems from lived experience. On the second…

  • Inheritance – Deep Time Chicago, 2019

    Inheritance – Deep Time Chicago, 2019

    Inheritance, 2019Confluence Ecologies exhibition, Southern Illinois University Beneath the rolling hills of Southern Illinois lies a fossilized section of a vast forest swamp that thrived 300 million years ago. Stretching for 100 miles along both sides of the ancient river as wide as the Mississippi, this fossil forest cuts across the heart of the Illinois…

  • Chicago River & Canal Walking Tour: History of Timber Extraction, Deep Time Chicago, 2017

    Chicago River & Canal Walking Tour: History of Timber Extraction, Deep Time Chicago, 2017

    Chicago River & Canal Walking Tour: History of Timber Extraction, 2017Canal Origins Park, 2701 S. Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL In conjunction with the exhibition Edward Hines National Forest and a Walk About It project of Deep Time Chicago Sara Black, Raewyn Martyn and Brian Holmes took visitors to the convergence of the Chicago River’s south…