continent., an online publication and experimental publishing collective that started in 2011, recently went on a bit of a break. This deeply cared-for collective entity begins, again, with a call for pauses.
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Thank you for your patience, dear reader.
ALT pausing for a moment at the sun floating in the sky
Sixteen-year-old Chavez Bronson shares reflections on canoeing the river and the youth climate strikes, which happened during this time. Teacher Anita Gates recounts a 100-year history of the region through her grandmother’s eyes. #unmutable@_continent_anthropocene-curriculum.org/…
(un)mutable channels
This longterm project by @_continent_ features voices atmospheres recorded along the length of the #Mississippi, seeking out the political & spatialized through sound, music & field recordings. Listen to the full episodes via anthropocene-curriculum.org/…
Riots emerge from voices unheard—reflections on #MLK's dictum guide us to sites of uprising and industrial toxicity on Turtle Island, a.k.a. North America. Listen to #unmutablechannels episode "Changes Flowing from a Heart of America" by @_continent_anthropocene-curriculum.org/…
Dear reader... We hope you’ve been well. @continent, you may have noticed, is in a moment of repose. The halting of systems and detent of attentions that have befallen the world, as also the shocks of the pandemic reverberate, have brought the goodship @continent into harbour.
For the moment, all articles are as accessible the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine: continentcontinent.cc/. If you have any trouble getting that to work or finding anything, please do get in touch and we will happily send you archival copies, directly.
Keep your eyes open on our instagram (@anthrocur) this week! We'll be sharing some beautiful video docs courtesy of @_continent_ and their (un)mutable channels project, which collects voices and atmospheres from throughout the Mississippi River Valley: anthropocene-curriculum.org/…
@_continent_ (un)mutable channels collects voices atmospheres from throughout the Mississippi River Valley. Mediated spatialized through sound, the multiple irrepressible flows of the river provide an archival backdrop for pivotal streams - more info anthropocene-curriculum.org/…
"Unworking overturns the typical valuation of work & action as positive & constructive and opens an avenue to think radical passivity & inactivity as aesthetic and political practices that question the modernist mantra of purposeful production & ceaseless activity." @_continent_
As an extension of our Temporary Art Review collab w/ @_continent_ last fall on HKW's Mississippi Anthropocene River @anthrocur "The Shape of a Practice" is live all week @HKW_Berlin online w/ new 'Temporary continent.' contribution (un)mutable channels ow.ly/eYVs50C4R6X
Launching today, a collaboration with friends and collaborators, online and off, in spaces real and virtual, part of @anthrocur and at the @HKW_Berlin, as well as across virtual geographies… hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/… w/ @march_intl
Next up in "The Solitude Screenings" series hosted by @_continent_@Mottobooks: The Big Lebowski makes us reconsider the virtue of working hard, switching instead to work a minimum rather than not at all, and the importance of challenging the status quo. facebook.com/events/14975849…
Tonight, Isaac Linder hosts a screening of "Portrait of Jason", an intimately iconoclastic story of isolation. From your fine friends at continent. and Motto Books. (9PM EU, 8PM UK, 3PM NYC)
Film: bit.ly/3bcymJE
Eextension: twoseven.xyz/