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ARTISTS, ACTIVISTS AND THE ANTHROCOPENE Tamar Kelly Critical Path respectfully acknowledges the Gadigal, the traditional custodians of the land where the organisation is based and this publication was compiled.
The first volume of this, the 11th edition of CRITICAL DIALOGUES, was born out of a Choreographic Laboratory at Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) in January 2019. A Critical Path initiative, it brought together five artists with a choreographic practice to participate, along with a critical thinker of their choosing, in a laboratory or forum responding to the ‘Anthropocene’. The laboratory was co-developed with Strange Attractor and presented as part of Sydney Festival. In this second edition we expanded our reach and invited four artists from three continents to share their thoughts and work on the Anthropocene. We coupled them with an educator and producer, who are both dedicating their lives to climate activism. Rather than an academic response to the Anthropocene, we asked them to write a ‘feeling response’.
