Natasha Myers/Ayelen Liberona: Edenic apocalypse meets gardens against Eden
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2024
Summary
In this project, anthropologist Natasha Myers documents Gardens By the Bay, Singapore's billion-dollar infrastructure for botanical tourism. This award-winning feat of environmental architecture is a living infrastructure that itself thrives on the labours of marginalized people. Embodying an Edenic aesthetic and an apocalyptic message, this simulation of an already lost world makes palpable the ways that capital continues to profit from the very extinctions that it drives. Myers’ research on gardens looks to artists to imagine ways to dream athwart the apocalyptic lure of Anthropocene thinking, and to foment plant/people conspiracies that can root us into an aspirational episteme she calls the Planthroposcene.
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- Surveying the AnthropoceneEnvironment and Photography Now, pp. 216 - 217Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2022