ABSTRACT
As researchers for the Future North project, smudge studio carried out a project titled Inhabiting Change in several research sites. In performative response to what was experienced, the phrase “turning at the limits” captured some of the embodied, affective charge that the work was taking on. The text-based artwork, entitled Turning at the Limits of the World, can be read as “notes to self” about what it takes to turn into the Anthropocene – that is, to alter individual and shared senses of self, world, others, time, place, geologic materiality in ways that acknowledge and act in recognition of Anthropocene realities. As an artwork, Turning at the Limits of the World functions as something of a manifesto for living the Anthropocene.
